Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know how badly I behaved that night ; but I was wild with jealousy . |
| 2 | Eventually I decided that assimilation was not possible , given Culler 's lack of interest in the interpretation of particular texts and his commitment to the uncovering of the generalized principles of literariness . |
| 3 | Most importantly I added some text that was to be part of the finished work . |
| 4 | I stood alone on the beach next to the elaborate italics of Oliver ( the others had done capitals , of course ) , and I looked up towards the camera , and Stuart shouted ‘ Cheese ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Gorgonzola ! ’ and Stu shouted ‘ Camembert ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Dolcelatte ! ’ and suddenly I had this crying fit . |
| 5 | Suddenly I had this vision of him having taken an overdose and phoning to say goodbye . |
| 6 | ‘ If only I had that opportunity such a rewarding experience working among people of that type . ’ |
| 7 | He said , oh if only I had that power ! |
| 8 | ‘ If only I had some money put by , ’ he told Rosie , as he was taking her home to the pub one evening . |
| 9 | Perhaps I needed more courage to retire than to carry on . |
| 10 | and er he said to himself there 's something I , I , I do n't know what it is necessarily but there is something , go to a specialist and the specialist was very very good you know blah blah blah blah you want some te I want some tests , you know , so I had some tests , you know and the crew that were doing the tests they knew what they were looking for and they either found it or they did n't , do n't know . |
| 11 | So I sprinkled this stuff inside every pair of knickers in the drawer and then folded them all up again carefully . ’ |
| 12 | So I took this Whitley up for 10 , 15 maybe 20 minutes and just made quite sure that all the engines were running perfectly , made a spot check on each engine and tested its flying capabilities — hands off and a few simple things in everyday testing . |
| 13 | But I always wanted to travel , and so I made several voyages as a ship 's doctor . |
| 14 | SO I asked some friends of mine who were in the antique business from , Indiana , pick it up . |
| 15 | I was lucky Nick and she was pretty Ellen , and so I ordered another bottle of the sticky white wine and we let our dreams take wings . |
| 16 | so she 's , her aunty 's going to Dublin , so I got these things and they were really cheap actually . |
| 17 | But to qualify for that you 've had , you 've actually got to be a councillor for six years , so I got half way there , |
| 18 | So I related this tale and , while the audience responded warmly , stole a glance to my left . |
| 19 | So I sent that piece under the impression that there would be no problem having it accepted and that afterwards we would see how the public reacted to it . |
| 20 | And er so I spent several years in the I L P as a secretary and at that time met er the people who ran the place . |
| 21 | So I wrote this essay |
| 22 | Well they had n't got any Walnut Whips in Sainsbury 's so I bought some eggs , so . |
| 23 | There was no announcement made at the end of the programme so , and they never got back to me , so I rang this morning first thing and last night they did n't ask me my name and address , but this morning they did . |
| 24 | She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate |
| 25 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 26 | So I borrowed some money and bought a store of my own , a tiny place , a cigar store , but in the right part of town , and in the right part of the right part of town . |
| 27 | Line bites continued , then at one o'clock I had another bite , again it was a drop bite . |
| 28 | For too long I thought this type of training was not the responsibility of the vet . |
| 29 | For so long I resisted any change to my hairstyle — I thought I knew what suited me — I was entrenched in an image that I had held from years gone by . |
| 30 | Literally I cried that night and then I did n't cry again . |