Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regretfully I pushed her clear . |
| 2 | But mostly I imagined you asleep , left utterly to yourself in a situation where my own absence from your life did not matter : |
| 3 | Off she went ‘ to see ’ and eventually I got my two pieces of wholemeal , well more or less wholemeal , bread . |
| 4 | But eventually I got it right , I had to — I could n't do the advanced course without the basic one under my belt . |
| 5 | So no-one got it right , pollsters , reporters or bookmakers . |
| 6 | ‘ The more champagne I drank the better I understood his strong Scottish accent . |
| 7 | Suddenly I felt something hot on my hands . |
| 8 | ‘ Suddenly I saw it all , when we were lying there . |
| 9 | Suddenly I remembered my weekly shower and hurried to join the ragged party which was forming outside . |
| 10 | Suddenly I shook myself awake , realising it was no dream ; smoke was drifting under my door and , in spite of the thickness of the walls , I could hear the most awful groaning and crashing . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ , ‘ Perhaps I took it all a little too seriously … |
| 13 | Perhaps I imagined it all . |
| 14 | Perhaps I handled it all wrong . |
| 15 | Personally I found them both informative and entertaining . |
| 16 | So I had it all cut off , it was about 2 inches all over — never again ! |
| 17 | And he slept with me , he would n't go to sleep so I took them both downstairs , made them a drink , made them something to eat , come back to bed . |
| 18 | That 's John , me boy , he 's a docker down the erm down the dock he got a weeks holiday this week , so I took me other boy and me daughter out last week and erm we 'd left her with dogs so I said we 'd take them out one day perhaps when he get his holiday . |
| 19 | So I thought it better to withdraw before we got into production and arguments . ’ |
| 20 | So I thought it best to let him and the Chief of Staff and Benson explain all their problems and difficulties " . |
| 21 | They did n't notice me so I made myself unobtrusive and listened . |
| 22 | Ah so I made it this , as s s skinny as I could . |
| 23 | So I grew myself some new flesh and got into wearing it . |
| 24 | So I collected them all and took them home . |
| 25 | So I ordered them sixty odd quid I ordered a green , a jade skirt |
| 26 | So I left her alone , locking the door behind me , and did not see her again ( she developed bronchitis , was taken into the cottage hospital and died soon afterwards ) . |
| 27 | So I offered her ninety-five . |
| 28 | You go up on it and it 's Mr Chuff So I got him that . |
| 29 | for granddad , well I ca n't get that from the kids and that 's it , that was to my dad so I got him that one in the end |
| 30 | So I got it wrong But I put Bern down originally Ann 's question Where is the Orange Free State ? |