Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I do n't know how long I stood in front of it . |
| 32 | Suddenly she felt like weeping . |
| 33 | Suddenly she burst into laughter , her arthritic hands waving in the air . |
| 34 | Suddenly her line tightened , so suddenly she squeaked with surprise . |
| 35 | Follow the old Craven Way on a frosty October morning when skies are clear and the whole of Dentdale opens below you tinged with autumn and you can keep your Grand Canyon and your Taj Mahal . |
| 36 | But Ah was out where the poppy grows so Ah started on hashish and stuff like that . |
| 37 | Perhaps she went in secret with the good-looking , but rather boring Italian sculptor Alfredo Pina . |
| 38 | And Ben was all she had for companionship ; those who would have been her so-called friends she would n't let over her step , and those she would have liked to call friends would n't come near her step . |
| 39 | So she began with praise : — the more I think on it Ellen the more beholden I am to you for how you have cared for Oreste and the more fortunate . |
| 40 | She had , at first , absolutely no hope of consent , and for a week or so she tossed in bed at night preparing to brace her spirit against the inevitable refusal . |
| 41 | So she thought about Baby , not sad thoughts but ordinary ones . |
| 42 | So she nodded in agreement , but he did n't release her wrist . |
| 43 | So he calls the heart a wild beast liable to impulsive leaps out of control , a situation archetypally illustrated in the story of the Fall when Eve 's eyes leapt to the apple and her heart followed and so she leapt from Paradise to the pains of mortality and took all men with her . |
| 44 | So you went to Church ? |
| 45 | So you went to town , right and you came home |
| 46 | So you went to town , did n't buy anything , went to grandma 's , picked her up , went to Holly Cottage |
| 47 | At one o'clock she went to lunch feeling more confident about her long-term prospects with the firm . |
| 48 | Goods were cheap , so who cared about service ? |
| 49 | But then suddenly we got in contact with each other and picked up where we left off . |
| 50 | If only we realised in time , we would n't waste our lives on trash. why is the best thing in the world tied to the least lasting ? |
| 51 | The Santa Cruz Operation was taking a bullish attitude towards the launch of Destiny last week , pointing out that it was a technology , not a product announcement , and saying that it would be a long time before the package would support the large range of peripherals in the SCO catalogue : SCO also claimed to offer pretty much everything offered by Destiny , including DOS/Windows emulation and Motif — which SCO ships , not just supports — claiming its distribution network was mature and widespread , and said it was more interested in the networked and multi-user system market than the PC and Mac replacement that USL is interested in . |
| 52 | He told Frankie to take care of me and so we went off hand in hand . |
| 53 | So we went to bed . ’ |
| 54 | So we went to bed . |
| 55 | And so we sailed on south for some days . |
| 56 | So we agreed about tea , and invited Father D'Arcy to join us . |
| 57 | So we got into bed together . |
| 58 | Some people say that trotting on the roads helps harden the horse 's legs while others maintain that too much trotting mean too much concussion on legs and feet ; I follow the latter view and so we stayed in walk with the occasional gentle trot uphill . |
| 59 | Erm we also know that base five formwork is up so we started on base five as soon as we can , put as many resources into it as we can we mentioned earlier that er having five hundred people in there made life quite congested but we decided the more people that helped in there the better and er our objective was to get the er wall steelwork up . |
| 60 | I can still see her as I first met her , a skinny , energetic schoolgirl with a flower in her shining black hair , who quickly grew into a beautiful woman and whose life became entwined with mine as together we triumphed over disease , over prejudice and even over war . |