Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that during those brief immortal moments when I was standing up on the board , walking on water , I too felt like a supreme being , until the ocean cast me down again and turned me once more into a creeping thing that creepeth upon the face of the earth . |
| 2 | Thérèse enclosed them once more and held on . |
| 3 | And for all his fans over here , I 'd like to let them know that he called DJ and me aside then and asked us if we 'd be interested in doing a European tour . |
| 4 | He took two of them up here and took them in sections and built one in Stenness and another in . |
| 5 | I add them up yesterday and said what 's it , what do I do , I 've not come to , now they 've sent me a temporary one . |
| 6 | He looked at me darkly again and sat down . |
| 7 | Toby picked me up bodily and carried me to his bed . |
| 8 | She blinked them back hurriedly and forced herself to look across at Josey . |
| 9 | I paid off his debts , but unfortunately for you , he insisted that he 'd pay me back someday and left me with a considerable number of IOUs . |
| 10 | But I did not perk up , so they carted me back indoors and called the doctor once more . |
| 11 | P.S. I think we left some skeletons in water , if so , tell James to take them out merely and lay them on the table to dry . |
| 12 | Already she opens my father 's letters , though so far she has not read them out loud or tied his tie for him . |
| 13 | ‘ Disney executives flew me out there and gave me the kind of treatment I 'd always dreamed about when I was an actress … bouquets , champagne , limousines , ’ says Lynda . |
| 14 | It would seem that I had no choice in either matter , but whereas the former flattered me as well as frightened me , the latter insulted and enraged me . |
| 15 | She could have stayed there forever , but after a moment he set her gently aside and turned towards Marianne . |
| 16 | She tutted aloud as she remembered she had nearly quailed altogether and quit him when he caressed her so directly and bit her ; but he was masterful , and had knowledge , and her love burst into ever greater intensity at the thought of that expertise . |
| 17 | He is a small but forceful creature who survived the untimely death of the man who manipulated him so brilliantly and went on to forge an equally close bond with a second partner . |
| 18 | The Doctor pushed her down gently and tried to make her comfortable . |
| 19 | The parents , in their concern about him feeling pushed out by his younger sister , had always given him much more and felt very upset when he complained . |
| 20 | Then he dragged her close again and bent his head to kiss her . |
| 21 | She dried her off well and said , ‘ She ca n't have two washes ’ . |
| 22 | Greg Carey was there near the door , and when he reached out to grab her arm , asking , ‘ What 's going on ? ’ she shook him off impatiently and did n't even see his face close and tighten in anger at her second rejection of the evening . |
| 23 | Every morning I drove him to the hospital , waited for his X-ray treatment , drove him home again and helped him to bed . |
| 24 | We picked her up then and carried her out , dumping her , limp as a sailbag , on the back seat . |
| 25 | Alex worked himself into a crimson-faced rage and bit the curled corner of the carpet , whereupon Marie picked him up bodily and carried him out of the room . |
| 26 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 27 | So I covered him up decently and rang for an ambulance . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll take her straight upstairs and put her in her cot , ’ she began , but Connor put out a hand , stopping her . |
| 29 | Before she could make an effort to get out a few intelligible words , though , he shouldered her roughly aside and strode into the house . |
| 30 | But when the victim left for home he forced her back inside and raped her . |