Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Eventually I stayed until 1926 as I made the composition of my ‘ Exercise ’ my excuse for being there . |
2 | But er eventually I found out that er , er , I ca n't er work peacefully here , because if I stopped for er , fighting for the benefit of the workers then er they will think that er I have been bribed or something like this and if I keep fighting for them then there 's no peace of mind , there 's always struggle , so I thought I 'll leave , and the second was , that I wanted to bring my family into this country and I was n't saving anything while leaving them because that 's a bit expensive area and er , the person who got the job for me he said let's migrate to Yorkshire . |
3 | On Wednesdays or Saturdays you got two hours ( other days it was only thirty minutes ) so obviously everyone came on those days . |
4 | ‘ Suddenly I went from ex-public schoolboy to illegal immigrant and when I did re-apply I was refused and told to get out . ’ |
5 | Only I heard of stranger things . |
6 | Perhaps I commented on this once too often ; perhaps I expressed my gratitude too sincerely . |
7 | I think just to answer that the , the pitch , because obviously I looked into this , and tried to get a reduction , |
8 | Personally I longed for human society and for exercise ( a good long tramp , for example ) , but no doubt Odilo had his reasons . |
9 | So I came across these things you see when we were first married because I used to write out all Hector 's bills for him , by hand before we had a typewriter |
10 | So I went to that big block of service flats in Peel Square , Chelsea , and engaged one of their self-contained one-room flats for a fortnight . |
11 | So I went into Irish pubs . |
12 | So I went through this process and I started to read my thoughts generally , not to be too much one way or the other . |
13 | So I went towards this soil and there was father in the bottom of a grave . |
14 | I said So I said to this Richard , I said excuse me I said but your phone 's not working downstairs I said have you got one upstairs ? |
15 | So I arranged for one of the estate stalkers to take the remains up the river , when the Colonel and his lady were out for the day . ’ |
16 | So I expanded to thirty percent on the , they had a Metroset in those days , and I said , you know , this is not likely to work so I 'm sending it out getting handset phototype , so I did . |
17 | I thought well after ten years , I thought , well I want I still want to get on and erm so I heard of this job down at Cambridge Station as Assistant Manageress at the Refreshment Rooms , you see , and er it was n't quite the same because er at Ipswich , you see , although the Catering Manager 's office er my work was office work and typing you know general thing and er because he was away most of the day , most days , because of er er the ten stations er from stretching as I say from Chelmsford , Witham , Marks Tey , Colchester and er I think it was Clacton and er and Manningtree and er I think , I do n't know Manningtree and Ipswich of course and er then er Bury St Edmunds and , and that 's it and I am not sure whether you went to Newmarket or whether to Ca whether to Cambridge now Newmarket but er , you see , so the days went on and we worked every other Sunday and of course I know things were a lot cheaper then but you see the pay was n't , was n't very good . |
18 | So I fell into one of my enjoyable reveries , examining the problem from every angle , looking for the key point where I might provoke a few kilocreds to tumble into my lap , by acquiring a bit of phetam . |
19 | So I stuck to all the side dishes , which were they were very nice . |
20 | So I got aboard this cab , and the guy said , Buddy where do you want to go to ? |
21 | So I got about ten twenty five |
22 | So I got about twenty records , ten packets of tea , Tropic of Cancer and On the Road , and the plays of Tennessee Williams , and off I went to live with Eva . |
23 | So I got into that . |
24 | So I played on this really , really heavy cut by Michael Bolton — it was really rockin' and it was really cool . |
25 | ‘ As I said , it 's up to you , ’ said this stupid young man , who could have done anything he liked to me — or so I felt at that moment — if only he had done it , and not talked about it first , trying to strike a bargain . |
26 | And so I progressed to secondary school . |
27 | So I looked through this device and er found what the reading it gave , so I went to my map and I found that that 's where Mars should have been . |
28 | Well there 's one there , there 's one there and there 's one round the back , so I looked in that one |
29 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
30 | So I walked across this ploughed field ’ Lift it up , lift it up , lift it up , ’ you know , all day long . |