Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I gave up hope of ever seeing my Mom again , and stealing a penny from beneath a milk bottle , bought a platform ticket and stowed away in the goods wagon of a train bound — I thought — for Sheffield and my beloved Grandfather . |
| 2 | Eventually I plucked up courage and booked a ticket to Amsterdam with the sole purpose of getting laid . |
| 3 | So me went down dere an " me called for me spar dem and " im come along wiv me and " e … an " " e check some woman down there , y'know check some skirt — jus ' grind up some daughter y'know , smoke weed an " t'ing . |
| 4 | Perhaps I ring up Irena and say you need more French ? |
| 5 | So I called up Mah Muse and I tried to bribe |
| 6 | So I rang up Conrad Black 's secretary for an invitation . |
| 7 | Naturally she took up residence , and by the time Nigel came back she was well established . |
| 8 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 9 | So she washed down Gabriel on the day he first played an angel . |
| 10 | So you set up WordPerfect so she , with a blank screen for Sarah to type on . |
| 11 | However much you pile up facts about the world in order to support an ethical case , you can not get an ethical conclusion unless you take some ethical premiss for granted , in a way which usually just begs the question against those with whom you disagree . |
| 12 | So we sent out letters to other potential funders saying the New Internationalist would close in two months time … unless . |
| 13 | So we go down Jenny 's and er the door knocked and I said Christ it 's Lynn . |
| 14 | So we called up Andy Bruaer and rented one and in about ten minutes , there it was ! ’ |
| 15 | So we send out Stein 's photo as Tweed , and Tweed 's as Stein . ’ |
| 16 | So we dream up sets of rules , we try and live by Holy Books , from the Ramayana to the Koran to Das Kapital by way of the Bible . |
| 17 | Below we write down A 's objective function at time s substituting the above expression for B 's actions and solving for the state variable by repeated substitution . |
| 18 | ‘ I ca n't think of two more depressing words then ‘ healthy eating ’ — together they conjure up images of grated carrot , naked lettuce and slices of vegetarian quiche . |
| 19 | So he headed off demands for a capital levy , knowing it to be unacceptable to his party , but Britain nevertheless paid for a higher proportion of the costs of the war from taxation than the other combatants ; he was also able to launch the Victory Loan of 1917 at an interest rate of only 5 per cent , having a surer sense of the patriotism of potential subscribers than did the Treasury . |
| 20 | You weave uncertainly along the road at first , but soon you pick up speed and rush smoothly forward , and your heart leaps with joy at the mastery of the thing . |
| 21 | Normally he handed over responsibility for the routine maintenance of their relationship to Ellen , but she was letting him down , so he was going to try the only technique he knew : drop some explosive overboard and see what floated to the surface . |
| 22 | When I got home I looked up Fauré in the Oxford Companion . |
| 23 | Moreover she breathed out power also ; one felt it in the air as one feels a thunderstorm before it breaks , and it seemed to me that this power was not quite human , that it drew its strength from afar and dwelt a stranger to the earth . |
| 24 | We held a lot of successful exhibitions and gradually we took over room after room in Tottenham mews until , finally , we occupied almost all the house . |
| 25 | Union by moving twenty or thirty miles outside , at once they set up conditions that I know they would set up in London if they could do so unchecked ( The Women 's Printing Society continued to operate , as an exceptional case , with women being paid male rates . ) |
| 26 | Voeller might have scored in the 24th minute had it not been for Andy Goram 's fine save from a powerful 20-yard shot , but seven minutes later he set up Marseille 's opener . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course you 're suggesting the side lines were n't legitimate and this may be hindsight , but now I look back Mr Hatton did perhaps occasionally have a shady air about him when he talked of them . |
| 28 | Right now you worked out F of four . |
| 29 | Maggie had been stewing meat , and now she rolled out pastry with a heavy glass roller like the one Mrs Martin had used in the Bradfords ' kitchen . |
| 30 | When she glanced behind they vanished around corners in a bouquet of arms and legs , to peep out at her with drained blue eyes . |