Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one kid , however , who did n't move back as far as the rest of his row , so I politely asked him to get in line . |
| 2 | The first drive I went on made me wonder about the sanity of grouse . |
| 3 | To pass the heaving multitudes on the track , I raced up like a fell runner , unhappily only to find each time I successfully overtook what looked like a queue for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that there were further extensive crocodiles of people ahead . |
| 4 | The postman eventually found him canvassing on the High Row and handed over the State secrets there and then ‘ I was very impressed , ’ says Fallon . |
| 5 | Picking her way through the guests , she eventually found him talking to Edward , but when he saw her approaching he left his host and came to meet her . |
| 6 | Their horses were fresher , and gradually closed on Sharpe who , to spare the mare 's strength , tried to avoid the worst hills , but he eventually found himself trapped in a long valley and was forced to put the mare at a steep grass slope which led to a bare skyline . |
| 7 | He eventually found it sitting on a wall outside a house . |
| 8 | The humiliation and jealousy that had surfaced in her did n't abate in the weeks ahead , and the prospect of the friends ' provincial tour together made her behave like a vixen . |
| 9 | He had less than a tenth of the jigsaw puzzle pieces , but even the fragments of a picture he was able to put together made him ache for Anne . |
| 10 | Dolly suddenly made herself heard from the bedroom . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps for the same reason I foolishly asked you to stay with Anna in the first place , ’ he snarled . |
| 12 | She felt like someone who suffered from vertigo and suddenly found themselves standing on the edge of a deep abyss . |
| 13 | They played ‘ ’ Invitation to the Waltz' ’ on Radio 3 this morning' — she was speaking faster and faster , edging towards the gun — ‘ such a heavenly tune , I played it at school , and suddenly found myself waltzing round the kitchen , then Ethel leapt up and waltzed with me , and I thought perhaps there is a life after Hamish . |
| 14 | And Pete , who had n't been entirely unaware of some of the paths that such a newly-founded relationship might follow , suddenly found himself shifting into back-off mode . |
| 15 | He had n't bothered to inform anyone in the team of this intention , and manager Bob Merriman suddenly found himself plunged into a crisis of seemingly immense proportions . |
| 16 | On the evening of 13 May on top of all his other preoccupations particularly the dangerously weak operational position of his Corps Gen Keightley suddenly found himself threatened by the possibility that within 48 hours Carinthia would be swamped by a further huge mass of some 600,000 surrendered personnel and refugees , without food . |
| 17 | Patrick suddenly found himself standing in the hallway , his heart tripping frantically , his breathing too fast to be comfortable . |
| 18 | The graphics industry , which was quietly waiting for its traditional suppliers to deliver their promises , suddenly found itself inundated by pseudo-typeset documents output at 300 dots per inch and was , rightly , unimpressed . |
| 19 | At that moment , as she faced to him , waiting for an answer , Guido swung the steering-wheel round to negotiate a corner , barely bothering to decelerate at all as he did so — so that Ronni suddenly found herself lurching towards the dashboard . |
| 20 | Coughing and spluttering , she went under , treading water , and suddenly found herself supported by a pair of equally strong arms as she fought for the surface . |
| 21 | One night , waiting in her car outside a pub to which she had followed him , she suddenly found herself crying for the first time . |
| 22 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 23 | Meredith peered into a couple of loose-boxes and called ‘ Mr Fearon ? ’ but only found herself staring into surprised equine faces . |
| 24 | ‘ Ireland 's vastly-improved performances obviously helped me get on stand-by for this tour . ’ |
| 25 | And er he apparently told her to sit in the car while he finished his |
| 26 | 20–3–1877 Duncan McLugash , Elder , confessed " that having been led to use a little whisky for relieving asthmatic tightening of the chest , he regrets that he incautiously allowed himself to go to excess , whereby he was overcome by it . " |
| 27 | She constantly restrained her eating for fear of putting on weight . |
| 28 | But , as we shall see , it was not the Bolshevik position on the question which alone determined what happened in the Russian empire , nor is it clear that , in practice , the Bolsheviks had had any real alternative if the revolution was to be successful . |
| 29 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 30 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |