Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so Felix offered to take over the wheel and drive for a while . |
| 2 | So Edward had come back to see how she had got on . |
| 3 | Perhaps Wordsworth intended to break down the cultivated reader 's protective distinction between literature and life : he certainly succeeded in confusing people , in 1798 and ever since . |
| 4 | ‘ If only Elaine had got round to registering the birth ! |
| 5 | Suddenly Tambini had run over to where most of us stood , awaiting our turn at the firing point . |
| 6 | Anna had arrived a week before the end of term , and so Christine had to go back to school , to her job , leaving Tony ( who had been granted paternity leave ) to cope on his own . |
| 7 | So Harris decided to go out in style . |
| 8 | Not quite quickly enough Olive tried to shut out a second thought : that she would never , could never , have married an Englishman . |
| 9 | For a few minutes longer Isabel tried to sort out hard facts from vague suspicions , with little success . |
| 10 | Meanwhile Ben had gone off to move another lighter and was then intercepted by the Manager who directed him to the dock some way off . |
| 11 | Meanwhile Linton had got up from his armchair and gone out to join Cathy and Hareton . |
| 12 | Meanwhile Tottenham celebrated bouncing out of the red as they banked nearly £6m from the sale of former Magpie Paul Gascoigne and immediately announced new plans to make money out of the midfield wizard . |
| 13 | As they accelerated away Joseph turned to stare out of the window and saw the peasant jump up and break into a little celebratory caper in the middle of the road . |
| 14 | Thus Mandel had set out the three levels at which the fight against bureaucratization must be waged by the ‘ revolutionary vanguard ’ : |
| 15 | Usually Pete liked to look down and watch the traffic from the window in the living room but today he bobbed about in the kitchen until Mum filled the basin with hot soapy water and scrubbed the driving wheel clean . |
| 16 | But once Pietro started sounding off to the press they had to stand by you to avoid charges of bowing to pressure . ’ |
| 17 | Even then , such is Peter 's Jewish prejudice , the Holy Spirit has to take the initiative in falling upon Cornelius and his company before ever Peter had got round to making any appeal to repentance , faith and baptism ( 10:44f ) . |
| 18 | ‘ That would be the end of me , I 'd be nothing then , ’ he would mumble , and once Nathan tried to tap out code on his hand , so that he would understand messages in the event . |
| 19 | More confused than ever Mungo had picked up The Forest and the Fire , turning to page 119 . |
| 20 | ‘ But my strategy was clear and once Riccardo had gone out — and he was really the last chance of anybody catching me — I just had to stay calm and not worry about winning . ’ |
| 21 | Eventually Gilbert had switched on the tape and asked , ‘ Do you feel like talking , Bissell ? ’ |
| 22 | Very slowly Jessamy began to calm down just a little . |
| 23 | Two weeks later Liz had moved in with her brother and sister-in-law and seemed much happier in herself . |
| 24 | A few seconds later Susan came bursting in as she had been upstairs when she 'd heard Maggie 's voice . |
| 25 | Half an hour later Enid had calmed down , at least on the surface , and changed into her aquamarine lurex hostess gown . |
| 26 | Involuntarily Wycliffe turned to look back at the house on stilts , but it was hidden by a bulge in the slope of the hill … |
| 27 | Little Billy began climbing about and peeping into the tiny windows . |
| 28 | Now Madeleine had taken over doing that . |
| 29 | Jonadab had made it clear that he had done his son-in-law a favour in allowing him to jump the queue and buy four of his grey shirehorses and now Stephen had to screw up his courage and confess that one was dead . |
| 30 | She could have told her guest that the midges were like little piranhas of the air ; but she had n't , and now Betty had found out for herself . |