Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The coach journey the next day to Helsinki airport was very long , and when I stood up to get off I finally pulled my hamstring . |
| 32 | Meandering roads , cul-de-sacs and dead ends are of course popular with traffic engineers but nearly always they simply increase our car dependence , lengthen walking distances and make it too difficult for buses to circulate . |
| 33 | Possibly he also washed his face , she did not know , never having asked him . |
| 34 | They way he just took my hair in one hand , while we were standing looking up at that God-awful window in the great hall , and turned my head to him , and pulled me close ; tongue down my throat before I knew what was happening , and there was something adolescent and desperate beneath all that working-class directness , but Jesus , I felt wanted … |
| 35 | I dreamed last night that I sat by a fire with Grandmother & my brother & when I woke up I still felt my brother 's hand . |
| 36 | As he grew up he bitterly accused his mother of having shown little interest in him . |
| 37 | ‘ Even now you still believe your body to be so irresistible that I must be hungering for it ? ’ |
| 38 | Now we only need his description on the ‘ Wanted ’ notices . ’ |
| 39 | Now it only increased his determination to find out what had made her so wary , so controlled . |
| 40 | I think they thought they were supporting me , by saying , ‘ You 'll be OK ! ’ , but really it just increased my anxiety . |
| 41 | Every six weeks an EITB officer has called in to monitor their progress and on they successfully completed their training . |
| 42 | and she do , she said she decided that , you know it was a bit , well I never change me post office , said I 've had it for all these years but she said it was a lovely bungalow and she says er what |
| 43 | She spilt liquid things and broke hard ones ; she slipped on banana-skins in the street , and even in places she knew quite well she frequently lost her way . |
| 44 | Unless he could rent rooms out to people , or better still , gather a group of people here who all paid their way , start a commune in fact . |
| 45 | Well you just get my rain cover . |
| 46 | I thought of the metal gauze idea because when light hits a gauze cylinder you ca n't see behind it although anyone inside can look out , and when you put the louvres across as well you further disguise their presence . |
| 47 | ‘ Ca n't you even stroke his picture for fear I shall see how much you miss him , or is all your love kept for yourself ? ’ |
| 48 | Others say ‘ why do n't you just change your name to New Express . ’ |
| 49 | Ca n't you just say your back 's , just have a rest for a while ? |
| 50 | Well why do n't you just adopt their verbiage as part of er wo n't have to pay any copyright fees for doing that . |
| 51 | ‘ Why did n't you just use your key , and why have you brought him ? ’ she demanded , pointing her bony finger at Frankie . |
| 52 | You do n't know what I said , so why do n't you just shut your face . ’ |
| 53 | Ca n't you just see your mother in a pink floppy hat with cherries on it ? |
| 54 | ‘ Are n't you rather overstating my role in all this ? ’ |
| 55 | And why do n't we just change our name to New Morrissey Express and be done with it ? |
| 56 | OK , so why 's he on the cover , and why do n't we just change our name to New Morrissey Express and be done with it ? |
| 57 | They took that first thing before they went upstairs to wake her up and and she did n't know who it was , well she looked up and well it just took her breath away and then she tried to wake her husband up , cos she did n't like that , when he got up , he chased them . |
| 58 | They will go to Klosters , his favourite resort in the Swiss Alps where four years ago he nearly lost his life in the avalanche which killed Major Hugh Lindsay . |
| 59 | Two weeks ago he successfully introduced his Registration of Domiciliary Care Agencies Bill under the Ten Minute Rule parliamentary procedure . |
| 60 | Rob Wilson 's courtesy and kindness is legendary and many years ago he indirectly helped my mother to hook her first salmon . |