Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [adv] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we were coming down so slowly , and I think we stopped suddenly cos then they walked across the path . |
| 2 | Flavius the Noseless had booked two weeks in Greece for his holidays , so whilst there he dropped in on Archimedes and asked if he could come up with anything . |
| 3 | Especially as apparently you 'd gone out in a hurry and not taken a handbag . |
| 4 | And so when finally they had invaded the greatest city in the world , they built the portico at Euston to proclaim as a memorial their victory to posterity . |
| 5 | So in other words is our F T E consistent with where we actually are rather than where we thought we 'd be erm or have we got erm you know er the Parkinson 's law , been operating with the , the overtime , people are used to doing it and therefore they keep doing it and so on . |
| 6 | The main problem in discussing the emancipation may be explaining why Alexander addressed himself to it halfheartedly rather than why he addressed himself to it at all . |
| 7 | I thought I 'd like to see how I looked teaching rather than how I thought I looked . |
| 8 | The finishing-off jobs were taking longer than even I thought , but gradually both houses were furnished and fitted to a standard I wished I had met myself in holiday homes . |
| 9 | She did not fear the rats ; a certain set of mind would keep them away from her in small furry terror , and as for the police-gangs , she could be awake and away before ever they reached her . |
| 10 | He started to walk backwards as together they advanced until he fell over a precipice , the hound at his throat . |
| 11 | In his Circle Limit series , the Dutch artist M. C. Escher borrowed a version of Poincaré 's model from H. S. M. Coxeter , professor of mathematics at Toronto University , and embellished its symmetries , just as elsewhere he had embellished the more worldly symmetries of the familiar Euclidean plane ( Figure 6 ) . |
| 12 | And that would be soon as ever he had his own son safely established back under this roof , where he should have been all along ! |
| 13 | before she could have the tiles put on cos then it had to be skimmed and then the tiles put on . |
| 14 | He had achieved it more easily and more quickly than ever he had expected . |
| 15 | ‘ I can see he 's gone a little further than even you thought he would . ’ |
| 16 | Oh I do n't know he under , when you that told he understood it a lot more than when she said it and she sort of went all |
| 17 | More than once they had thoughtlessly consumed the ingredients of his dinner … |
| 18 | More than once they saw a passer-by , soaking wet , shout threats and curses at an open window . |
| 19 | Climbing the steep mountain roads round hairpin bends was quite dramatic and more than once I had glimpses of distant eagles . |
| 20 | I confess that more than once I came near to tears , eyes as misted as the beautiful stage setting of Günther Schneider-Siemssen . |
| 21 | Sometimes I used to see the funny side of these sessions , but he was not one to tolerate flippancy and more than once I received the rough side of his tongue . |
| 22 | More and more she was acting like a bitch ; more than once she had to restrain the urge to hit out at him , punch him in his good-looking , smarmy face , especially when she would come upon him in the drawing-room sitting holding her great-gran 's hand , stroking it gently as if it were a cat , and that old woman sitting there and , like a cat , lapping it up . |
| 23 | Only one explanation fitted all the facts , and it was so far-fetched that more than once she dismissed it . |
| 24 | Melissa , struggling to follow the staccato bursts of speech that punctuated their intake of food , was so fascinated by their mannerisms that more than once she lost the thread of what they were saying and had to beg them to speak more slowly , which they did with great good humour and shrieks of tinny laughter . |
| 25 | A lot of the jokes tended to go straight over his head , but there was always some good stuff about the management and more than once he 'd noticed senior people leaving with red faces before it ended . |
| 26 | And more than once he lost his way because he was remembering the bluest eyes he had ever seen . |
| 27 | Tt erm and explore the salary a bit more because again I said it 's basic at thirty five and there 's a few other bits and pieces but you never really got to grips with what those other bits and pieces are , yeah there 's performance related pay , location allowances , a company car , there 's BUPA , all those bits and bobs need to be identified . |
| 28 | Their lips met once more as slowly they savoured the pure essence of love . |
| 29 | She had a sudden desperate longing to relive last night — at least , the part up until when they had said goodnight . |
| 30 | Never done , any , any manual work , up , up until when he started packing in the shoes a few years ago . |