Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was incredibly strong and she closed her legs around him , driven by some instinct to try and pull him deeper within her . |
| 2 | Driving to Glasgow I wondered how easy it was to get lost and end up in Wales or Norfolk or somewhere , but once it began , it was so exciting and I saw one could n't get lost , not even if one tried . |
| 3 | The bruise on his ankle was cripplingly painful and he felt his forty-seven years . |
| 4 | I thought I was ever so clever and I wanted everyone to hear me , so each time I spotted one of the neighbours near our house I would bang out the tune . |
| 5 | Feargal 's blue eyes were impossibly bland and she found it very hard to keep her face straight . |
| 6 | At the time Lady Moon , 54 , said : ‘ It was all so easy and it gave me a hell of a buzz , better than drugs . |
| 7 | She was terribly ambitious and I knew she 'd go on to do well . |
| 8 | He said to us that you know that is dick was so hard and he told us everything of what he did to her , he push his dick inside of her and he said he was very very rough with her and she was crying and crying and crying . |
| 9 | So why am I so lucky and I got you as well ? |
| 10 | Now , however , almost a decade later , it did not seem nearly so large and he found himself remembering the good things — the warm , cosy atmosphere of Mrs Appleby 's kitchen ; the wonderful view across the garden and pastures from all the south-facing windows ; the pungent smell of the horses , so well loved by Uncle Cosmo , in the well-kept stables ; the fascinating portrait of his handsome father in the gallery ; the stamp collection and lead soldiers that had once belonged to his father in the shabby old nursery , where he , a homesick boy , had secretly penned so many letters to Alice . |
| 11 | The situation was changing so fast and we hoped we might find ourselves in this situation . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We got him halfway up the lane and we got so tired and I left them and came on ahead , ’ Sacco blurted out . |
| 13 | Mussolini , however , was less impressed and he launched his invasion on October 3rd . |
| 14 | It was so wonderful and I wanted it to go on forever . |
| 15 | My Mrs Hewitt from the Lake District was so nice and I felt she was an old friend , but we wanted to talk about our Christmas shopping , not books . |
| 16 | I am wet but utterly unharmed and I enjoyed it . ’ |
| 17 | so anyway he went right on until the Saturday and he said look , on the Friday they called us in and they said look we 're gon na take him to the ward I 'm afraid there 's nothing else we can do , just deteriorating and he said there 's no |
| 18 | I bought him one Christmas years and oh hey , we were just married and I ordered him an extending ladder from the Co-op |
| 19 | In fact , there was another group who were not happy and who expressed their unhappiness in no uncertain terms to me on my return . |
| 20 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 21 | ‘ We were just passing and we saw your plate on the gate , ’ said the tall elder one , ‘ and we thought it might be a good idea to — well , try you out . ’ |
| 22 | Still , the ale 's not bad and I thought there might be a chance of a blow . ’ |
| 23 | She might lose him but for now he was as enslaved as she was and Maggie caressed him as he caressed her until his kisses grew more demanding and he turned her beneath him again . |
| 24 | And erm it was like crooked and I got my nail behind there like that right ? |
| 25 | But Miriam had noticed the slight intake of breath ; she had been perfectly aware that Louise might be shocked by her words but she had spoken them anyway , partly because she felt too weary not to say what she meant , partly because , though she liked Louise , she sometimes found her sweetness and prudish innocence rather cloying and it gratified her to offend them . |
| 26 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 27 | ‘ His knee is slightly unstable and we thought it best he saw the surgeon who performed the operation on him . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ His knee is slightly unstable and we thought it best he saw the surgeon who performed the operation . ’ |
| 29 | It sounded ridiculously lame and she cursed herself for sounding so weak and ineffectual , but miraculously he seemed not to notice . |
| 30 | The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log . |