Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first everyone had been smiling , thinking how right I looked holding the baby . |
| 2 | Obviously I enjoyed having the opportunity to watch any nesting birds so close at hand — I could reach out of my bedroom window , when Mum was n't around , and feel right inside the nest — but many of the neighbours looked on the house martins as pests who infested their property and made a mess . |
| 3 | So obviously I kept drinking the water and the next day , on the Sunday , the pain was so bad we called the doctor again and he found out I was in labour and he sent me to the hospital and they found out not until the Thursday that it was actually the cryptosporidium that had caused it . |
| 4 | So I tried raising the price — that works with a lot of people ; you 'd be surprised . |
| 5 | So we kept opening the door it blew out once again and he put it on again and we were still getting these fumes till about oh about half past five it seemed to stop , u we had the windows open . |
| 6 | So they kept changing the man on the next machine , and until he could talk him into using the System , William 's grandad would have to lurch down machine alley every few minutes , heaving his stiff leg behind him like Long John Silver and cursing like his parrot . |
| 7 | Apparently it involved developing the muscles of the pelvic floor . |
| 8 | When he was nineteen , Reza Shah decided that the Crown Princes marriage was due and so he began trawling the Middle East for the most suitable wife — from a dynastic point of view . |
| 9 | Nevertheless he stood watching the frail figure mount the broad staircase , her shadow moving past the portraits of her ancestors on the wall . |
| 10 | Soon he began manufacturing a range of agricultural and dairy equipment , much of which was exported . |
| 11 | She resisted this for several months , not wishing to loosen her control of urban policy , but eventually she capitulated giving the responsibility to Mr Kenneth Clarke , Minister for Trade and Industry . |
| 12 | But yesterday he admitted ignoring the judge 's advice . |
| 13 | The closer they crept -both morning and belief — the more he regretted shunning the assassin when it had so plainly wanted his company . |
| 14 | Now she regretted stripping the clothes from his body . |
| 15 | Our doctors were delighted for they knew they would soon need expert surgical help , but secretly they enjoyed showing the ‘ greats ’ who had little rooms adjoining each other on that top floor , the good work that had been done in ‘ the acute exanthemata . ’ |
| 16 | Three years ago I stopped taking the Pill because we wanted to have a baby . |
| 17 | And immediately they started raising the prices of the lunch clubs . |
| 18 | Five years ago he began seeing a psychotherapist , but stopped after two and a half years of treatment . |
| 19 | Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ? |
| 20 | He wrote at home in the morning and then , on free afternoons , he liked to walk with his wife in Kensington Gardens : particularly he enjoyed watching the boats which children brought to the Round Pond there . |
| 21 | Eventually it receded leaving the fertile marshlands stretching for more or less ten miles to the wolds , whose now gentle eastern slopes were once the exposed chalk cliffs . |
| 22 | actually I tend to waste money cos I thought I 'd sit here and moan about taking them out the cost of it , but then I considered spending a hundred pound on a bed that he probably does n't even need , it 's daft really in n it ? |
| 23 | Then someone suggested beating the wheels of the wagon with branches of broom . |
| 24 | Then she died having the boy . |
| 25 | Then she started reading a recipe . |
| 26 | Then she started having an affair . ’ |
| 27 | cos I had a right old attitude , I mean , I mean , I know it sounds modest , but , I was doing it well , do n't get me wrong , I was doing it , and I , but then it started getting a bit |
| 28 | Then he disappeared leaving the running of his 200 acre farm in the hands of his distrought wife and friends . |
| 29 | Then he began planning a whirlwind national and international tour . |
| 30 | Then he started making a plate for them all . |