Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] [verb] [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 and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that
3 So Edward had come back to see how she had got on .
4 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 .
5 So Pompey go sailing on .
6 ‘ If only Elaine had got round to registering the birth !
7 So Graham has gone round
8 Suddenly Tambini had run over to where most of us stood , awaiting our turn at the firing point .
9 So what we can see for the activist nought to three is a very low preference so Irene has come out as a , a very low preference on that , four to six is a low preference so that 's seven to ten is the sort of average so that one 's the average , that one
10 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 .
11 So Clinton has come up with a mixed bag of tricks : some of his proposals will be interpreted as inflationary ( the new mandates on business , for example — including a requirement that all employers spend a minimum of 1.5% of payroll on continuing education and training ) .
12 So Harris decided to go out in style .
13 Erm so Paul says come on , we 'll have a look in the Co-op and here they had the very same one I wanted in the Co-op and it was ten pound cheaper .
14 Not quite quickly enough Olive tried to shut out a second thought : that she would never , could never , have married an Englishman .
15 eleven to twelve is a strong preference so John 's come out as strong and thirteen to twenty is a very strong preference , so that 's Mark and Lou , you 've actually come out as very strong .
16 For a few minutes longer Isabel tried to sort out hard facts from vague suspicions , with little success .
17 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 .
18 Finally Travis let himelf down by his arms and dropped to the ground .
19 Meanwhile Linton had got up from his armchair and gone out to join Cathy and Hareton .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 Whether or not Aldershot need to take up Swindon 's offer of hospitality depends on a high court hearing on Wednesday .
23 Thus Houston attempts to think through the difference which television 's textual specificity presents to theories of the psychoanalytic and semiotic subject , while recognizing at the same time the interrelationship between that specificity and the specificities of institution and viewing .
24 Thus Mandel had set out the three levels at which the fight against bureaucratization must be waged by the ‘ revolutionary vanguard ’ :
25 Meanwhile Svidrigailov has taken over the suicide role , which is to say the blanket boredom has become positively terminal .
26 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 .
27 But once Pietro started sounding off to the press they had to stand by you to avoid charges of bowing to pressure . ’
28 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 ) .
29 ‘ 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 .
30 More confused than ever Mungo had picked up The Forest and the Fire , turning to page 119 .
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