Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exposed to Minton 's freewheeling , glamorous Bohemianism , some found it difficult afterwards to stand on their own feet , for Minton had effectively broken them away from their backgrounds or their jobs . |
| 2 | She had obviously forgiven him now for all those cruel but necessary things he had said when he dropped her the year before . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's absurd — I look on Margaret as my best friend , but I 've only seen her once in the last six months — I do feel guilty about it . ’ |
| 4 | I 've only done it once with crisps I had some were soggy and sour and horrible |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd only met her once before that evening , but I feel we 'll be friends for life . ’ |
| 6 | Looking into her great eyes , their blue so dark that it was almost black , he was uncomfortably aware that having Miss Sally-Anne McAllister in the house was a most disturbing influence on a man who had not only denied himself sexually for some years , but who had rarely mixed with young women at all since he had left the army . |
| 7 | After a heart-to-heart talk , she had gently ordered him home for the rest of the week , and since that time they had been friends in a reserved sort of way . |
| 8 | In July 1914 while preparing the volume for publication , he confided to his close friend Florence Henniker : ‘ Some of them I rather shrink from printing — those I wrote just after Emma died , when I looked back at her as she had originally been , & when I felt miserable lest I had not treated her considerately in her latter life . |
| 9 | We explained that we had not realized their boat was part of the Coast Guard and that we had not heard them aright in their orders to stop . |
| 10 | How can I be sure you have not given it away to another ? " |
| 11 | He declared that he could see no alternative to perestroika , but he won loud and prolonged applause when he observed that " all manner of rash radicalism , improvisations and dithering have not given us much in five years " . |
| 12 | Well let's go back to Molyneux , a reminder of that result if you 've just joined us here on Talking Sport ; Wolves three , Oxford United three . |
| 13 | And he 's he 's turned over this and just gon na slap one on me and I 've turned my head and gone like that and he 's fucking caught me right on the fucking lips ! |
| 14 | She had not expected him home for at least another hour . |
| 15 | In accepting Murav'ev 's proposals the regime made plain that , although it had just committed itself firmly to the emancipation of the serfs ( in the Nazimov Rescript ) , it was not yet prepared to adopt the principle of decentralization or to move towards provincial self-government . |
| 16 | But you 've not noticed anything else about yourself Catherine , no ? |
| 17 | He had not seen it before in his panic to ring the ambulance and get Mrs Popple to hospital . |
| 18 | I 've not had anything close to twelve years like it , since , I can tell you ! |
| 19 | I do n't know , it 's just got it somewhere from the East somewhere is n't it ? |
| 20 | He looked , she thought , as though someone had just kicked him hard in the stomach . |
| 21 | She had played a part that was alien to her nature and she had not played it well at all . |
| 22 | Joe looked round desperately for a place to put his hat , and finally laid it lovingly on a shelf . |
| 23 | Hampstead had already brought her sharply into his mind — that had been obvious when the name had leapt into view on our arrival . |
| 24 | ‘ When it 's time to sleep , why not set her here on the chair to watch over you ? ’ |
| 25 | He had come into the shop with her but had not followed her upstairs to the kitchen . |
| 26 | Mr , oh well , we 've already appointed him so at least we do n't have to alter the outcome . |
| 27 | If the incoming Conservative Government had not swept them away at once it would today seem no less difficult to abolish the ‘ social service , of subsidised food than the ‘ social service ’ of subsidised housing . |
| 28 | He had not eaten anything apart from the occasional so-called mash since the crops had died and he had only been allowed that because of a special emergency food supplies being sent in from other parts of the country . |
| 29 | It seems to me that part of the problem of players complaining about the pressure of the modern game is that they have not attuned themselves properly to what is required . |
| 30 | He had entered parliament in 1900 , twenty-six years after Balfour , he had held no Cabinet post , he had taken no active role in party institutions , and he had not involved himself much in the social world of Westminster . |