Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molassi led them silently onwards and downwards . |
| 2 | Ira Dilworth applauded the idea and gave me an official ‘ To Whom It May Concern ’ letter of introduction , which opened a number of official doors , got me as far as Edmonton , and served as an invaluable introduction to some high ranking officers of the R.C.A.F. |
| 3 | Both men and women lowered their chances of developing cataracts when they stopped smoking , but still got them more often than non-smokers . |
| 4 | We sold ourselves short then but we believe we have the ability and the temperament to cope on Sunday . ’ |
| 5 | He found them quickly enough and returned to the pub . |
| 6 | It was then that Fat Watt regarded them most sullenly as though their nearness was a threat . |
| 7 | Albrecht Dürer designed them as early as 1500 or before . |
| 8 | I dismissed him as quickly as I could and later found that he had gone to drink himself into a drunken stupor . |
| 9 | The leading Coalitionists in the Conservative Party-Austen Chamberlain and Birkenhead-had , perforce , to come to terms with Baldwin , and sustained him as unwillingly as Lloyd George accepted Asquith 's leadership . |
| 10 | We just helped him as well as we could in the circumstances . |
| 11 | Three hundred Catholic miners marched in from Cleator Moor , four miles away , intercepted him outside the meeting-hall , beat him as hard as they could , and left him for dead . |
| 12 | He stayed out of the way as much as he could , and Sandy mentioned him as infrequently as possible . |
| 13 | Pat was with him the day a young woman approached him exceedingly politely while he was enjoying his veal — in one of his favourite Italian restaurants , Biagis , he would go for a filleted sole — and asked for his autograph . |
| 14 | If , on the other hand , you judged the conversation you heard to be trivial and inconsequential and found yourself only selecting certain parts of it : if you changed it , rewrote it , rethought it completely so that it accorded with your own notion of how that conversation should have proceeded , then you are another sort of writer . |
| 15 | Because I had one in the garden here and we moved it actually when we , we took the er hedge out er to put the fence and the gate on er and we moved it somewhere else and it er it just died off . |
| 16 | He moved it gently forward and saw that the grate had , in fact , been recently used ; someone had tried to burn a diary . |
| 17 | But Duvall smacked it dismissively aside and jabbed two steel-hard fingers at the base of Jimmy 's throat with a cold and precise disdain . |
| 18 | He used it sometimes rather than go into the factory at Newbury . |
| 19 | but er I was the only one that ever used it and I used it about once or twice and then , like like , I used it for about |
| 20 | We found it easily enough and it was open for business — at least it was when they went in . |
| 21 | I found it really hard when I was left totally to the women 's company … |
| 22 | Helen had been trying to learn for some time , but she found it very hard although Tony was endlessly patient with her . |
| 23 | Father Kleinsorge told them as cheerfully as he could , ‘ There 's a doctor at the entrance to the park . |
| 24 | Put on my mettle , I told them as simply as I could of how Tony , Poll and Doreen had made their ‘ Feast ’ , burying their doll ( I substituted doll for scouter ) and covering the mound with flowers ; and how , at the end , as a simple token of courtesy or affection , Tony had presented his penis for Doreen 's pleasure . |
| 25 | So I rang the hospital and told them very calmly that we 'd be arriving shortly , then I woke up Tony and — thinking I had loads of time — ran a bath . ’ |
| 26 | Ralemberg studied me attentively throughout and I glimpsed the disbelief in his eyes . |
| 27 | ‘ Just go back to Lévy tomorrow and sell the other vase , ’ Jean-Claude told me rather conspiratorially when Félix had gone to his bucket . |
| 28 | ‘ She agreed to marry me , but she told me straight away that she would n't be able to live in England all the time , and I told her I could n't live in L.A. |
| 29 | Time told me more immediately that it was five-thirty , the hour of return to the dining room , and I returned to find every single seat already taken , the passengers having learned fast . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh Lydia , ’ she said , ‘ you told me only yesterday that you did n't want any children . |