Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Two tall young men in finely cut gallibayas and white scarves asked rather formally if they might walk with us , then lapsed into shy silence . |
| 2 | She checked only momentarily when she saw the chaos in the room . |
| 3 | Granpa clapped so loud as I returned to my place that some of the mums looked round and smiled , which made the old fellow even more determined to see that I stayed on at school until I was fourteen . |
| 4 | It smelled all right when she got it out of the oven . |
| 5 | The water rose incredibly quickly till it was touching the ceiling . |
| 6 | She darted past him and opened the door that led to the store-room , then helped somewhat ineffectually as he dragged the mattress through and hefted it on to a stack of boxes . |
| 7 | In the early days we ventured further afield than we do now , working in Suffolk , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Surrey . |
| 8 | But the bricks were soft and crumbled uselessly away when he removed the moulds . |
| 9 | Determined to fight , I shouted as loudly as I could . |
| 10 | I shouted as loudly as I could . |
| 11 | Opening it wide , she shouted as loud as she could : ‘ I 'm warning you lot , one more noise and I 'll come up there and scalp the arses off yer ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I trained as hard as I could and spend 2½ hours in the gym every day for six months , ’ said Smith , adding confidently , ‘ the winter has done its job . ’ |
| 13 | She returned Travis 's kiss warmly , then bent as well as she could to hug Jonas . |
| 14 | Though she tried as faithfully as she might to devote herself to the needs of this rude community , she knew that she was not greatly liked and the knowledge injured her . |
| 15 | If she was judged on her effort , then she regards the judgement as unfair since she tried as hard as she could . |
| 16 | After the interview I mentioned as casually as I could that as a result of blocked sinuses I had lost my sense of smell ( with the exceptions of petrol , laundry and excrement ) for years , and could he think of any way of restoring it ? |
| 17 | In fact , Labov 's propensity to set out patterns in his data in a highly visual way is quite in the spirit of exploratory statistics ; but the data are not presented as comprehensively nor analysed as thoroughly as they would be using Tukey 's principles . |
| 18 | Dandelion swam as well as he ran , swiftly and easily . |
| 19 | Robbie 's colour fled as rapidly as it had appeared , leaving her face ashen with anger . |
| 20 | He was really playing great tennis , ’ McEnroe conceded , ‘ I did n't realise he moved as well as he did . |
| 21 | It was very wet , getting worse , and I did n't feel that the patient could tolerate sitting out flood waters , so we moved as fast as we could . ’ |
| 22 | Hardly able to see a hand in front of her , but refusing to be daunted , Luce moved as fast as she dared down an alley-way little more than a metre wide . |
| 23 | He moved as quietly as he could . |
| 24 | He moved as quietly as he could towards the connecting door , grasped the handle and with a single movement flung the door open . |
| 25 | He stopped as abruptly as he had begun . |
| 26 | He broke off , repeated a passage , and then stopped as abruptly as he had begun . |
| 27 | He stopped as abruptly as she had done . |
| 28 | His laughter stopped as quickly as it had begun . |
| 29 | The bombs stopped as suddenly as they started but the hollow screams of anti-aircraft shells continued without pause . |
| 30 | I was buried alive , the pummelling stopped as suddenly as it had started , I heaved myself up and the earth and muck fell off me . |