Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For long [ before the revolution of 1789 ] ’ , wrote a contemporary , ‘ the intendants , directed by public opinion , sought rather to distinguish themselves by their care for the people and by works of public utility , than by their obedience to ministerial wishes . ’ |
| 2 | He took his vorpal sword in hand : Longtime the manxome foe he sought So rested he by the Tumtum tree , And stood awhile in thought . |
| 3 | The next fish I hooked eventually snapped me after taking most of my line , but I was not worried . |
| 4 | Yelping in alarm as he tipped her sideways and moved swiftly to trap her beneath him on the sofa , she stared up at him in shock . |
| 5 | Alex Household drew aside to let him into the flat . |
| 6 | For the most part , however , he found more to preoccupy him outside France ( where he feared the imminent outbreak of a global conflict ) than inside . |
| 7 | Once their canvasses showed majority support for the proposal , they moved quickly to bring it to a vote , thereby avoiding the public debate which had accompanied past efforts at prohibiting honoraria . |
| 8 | We tried frantically to reach him with our walkie-talkies , but he was somewhere en route from the island of Gozo . |
| 9 | When he accepted a call from Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City in 1911 the Mayor and Corporation of Birmingham tried unsuccessfully to keep him in Birmingham . |
| 10 | She came down to Riverside with me , watched as we rehearsed then followed me into the loo and gave me a blow job — something I just was n't used to as a 17-year-old grammar school boy still living at home with his mum and dad . |
| 11 | I cried all day long and although Bessie tried hard to tempt me with nice things to eat or my favourite books , I took no pleasure in eating or even in reading . |
| 12 | He returned her look with a glance so suddenly intent that she felt a flash of absurd panic , and rose hurriedly to busy herself with the teapot . |
| 13 | Everything he owned just to have it in his hands for a few hours . |
| 14 | I 'd rather taken it for granted that she 'd come to London with me . |
| 15 | It was as if there was a wave of water and the wave turned a wheel and the wheel turned a cog and the cog turned a piston and the piston punched out a wave , bigger and more overwhelming than the first wave , turning a bigger wheel , a bigger cog , a bigger piston and then finally a wave that seemed enough to swallow everything in its path . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd better reimburse you for the sweets ’ Vernon insisted , in a tight unfriendly voice . |
| 17 | I think you 'd better mention something to Rosie love about that er |
| 18 | " You 'd better send yourself to Hoggatt 's if you want to get there by eight-thirty . |
| 19 | " You 'd better tell me about it . |
| 20 | You 'd better tell me about the other night . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'd better tell me about it . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I think I 'd better tell you about what happened after you left , ’ Kelly said quietly . |
| 23 | ‘ We 'd better tell someone at once , ’ said Tim . |
| 24 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 25 | ‘ Then you 'd better brace yourself for disappointment , because this time you 're going to be unsuccessful . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You 'd better drop me at the hospital . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd better apprise you of the situation to date . |
| 28 | " I think you 'd better leave him for now , " interrupted Mr Jenks , walking down the corridor , " I 'll deal with him later . " |
| 29 | Looking down at the pathetic little body lying so still on the table , she said , ‘ I 'd better leave him like this for Dawn to see . |
| 30 | I think we 'd better leave it at that for the moment . |