Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he got so he could gradually do without it and he never stuttered again . |
| 2 | Remember , fibre-rich food holds extra water , so two or three extra pounds of liquid retained inside you can easily obscure the same quantity of lost fat . |
| 3 | Her legs trembled so they would hardly carry her . |
| 4 | For example , if at P the parcel had no motion in the east-west direction across the planet 's surface and the planet 's axial rotation is prograde then it will pick up motion across the grid towards the east , and in moving northwards will end up for example at Q. If it were in the southern hemisphere and moved southward it would also pick up an eastwards movement . |
| 5 | Service If it all stopped there you 'd still be left with a very capable and complete utility , but the people at Rupp seem to have taken another class of user into consideration — the user who wants to ‘ dock ’ a portable into a desktop setup and use its drives and printers in a sort of client/server networking fashion . |
| 6 | Yet he feared they were like biting fish in a fine mesh net , if they swam forward they would never escape ; he saw them lifting their limbs with automatic motion , as crayfish with their lumbering claws knock against the basketwork of the pens in which they have been trapped . |
| 7 | ‘ So do I. I liked the way she muttered so you could hardly hear when she was being funny . |
| 8 | Nobody had , I 'd done it myself , you see and I did n't want to know and er I did n't want anybody to know you see but er , he was marvellous I know and I know there was something else tiny came away it 'd only be about six or eight weeks but it was , I think anyway what was lost was found and I was in hospital for about fourteen days . |
| 9 | I had planned to buy a flat with Geraldine but realized that if — no , when — John came back I would rather have a home all set up for him . |
| 10 | She was still tingling with pleasure and her cheeks burned when she realised that if he came back he could just take up where he had left off and she would not do a thing to stop him . |
| 11 | ‘ Hoskyns ’ , said one of the astringent colleagues who disapproved of him , ‘ went to Berlin and they muddled his mind and when he came back he could never get it unmuddled . ’ |
| 12 | This was supposed to be a ‘ sensitive ’ job and if I came out I would automatically be adjudged a danger to the patients and given the elbow . |
| 13 | So by the time you came here it would mostly just be Tommy that was playing ? |
| 14 | Everyone knew how important punctuality was to Laura ; she believed if you arrived late it could only be because you had not started out early enough . |
| 15 | ‘ If a real man walked in he 'd soon dance another tune . ’ |
| 16 | If Reynolds glanced back he could still see the dark bulk of the table against the light , its straps hanging . |
| 17 | If the parents feel badly treated , or even worse , humiliated then they will quite likely broadcast their version of events in a way which the school will find difficult to counter . |
| 18 | If I pulled out he would probably do me over for being a chicken , but if I competed and beat him ( unlikely but not impossible ) … well , I might as well have booked my hospital bed then and there . |
| 19 | If she rang now she might just catch Levkovich in his morning break . |
| 20 | ‘ I wo n't deny that if I were in London and war broke out I 'd probably join up . |
| 21 | ‘ We feel a real sense of belonging , and even if the business collapsed tomorrow we 'd never go back to the south east . ’ |
| 22 | If this situation persisted then it would clearly undermine the cohesion of the EMS . |
| 23 | And when they fished there they would inevitably lose tackle , and it would stay in the lake forming a hazard for the ducks and swans . |
| 24 | But he told people that if she ever worked again it would only be with his approval . |
| 25 | I did n't go till about half ten ah no cos I had a few letters and stuff to write first and I thought right I 'll just take me time and , cos I wanted to I did n't wan na go faster than you know than I should , I should have done sort of thing cos I wanted to time it properly . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , you know , I thought perhaps I 'd just check through things and make sure . ’ |
| 27 | I 've got nearly over five hundred quid , then the petrol and then food where you could n't get food donated , and new tyres for the bike before I went so you could only get on the road . |
| 28 | Use pliers or a small spanner to turn the spindle to full on , noting how many turns this took so you can then restore it to its original position later . |
| 29 | It was an unusually quiet night , and Jack had been called in earlier and had stayed not out of necessity but because , as he said , if he went home he would only be called out again . |
| 30 | If she strode out she would just about do it ; her office was only across the road and down the side-street . |