Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line . |
| 32 | Only his song could do the trick , and float the witch into a dreamless sleep , and so she tied him to a perch by a silken ribbon and put bells on his bird 's feet . |
| 33 | So she put them on the plate and she might want to work out what would three lots of two come to . |
| 34 | So she did it in the early morning before the Men came , or in the warm evenings when the Zoo gates were shut . |
| 35 | So she hit him on the face to make him prick his ears ! |
| 36 | They rattled as she stalked , sometimes alarming her prey , and so she scattered them into the sand , to be ingested by the things that lived below the dunes . |
| 37 | So she helped them into the boat and they embraced one another . |
| 38 | Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground . |
| 39 | Gently she placed them in the carrier bag . |
| 40 | Gently she shook him by the shoulder , and his eyes opened . |
| 41 | So we referred it to the confed and er we had the officers down and the matter was resolved and we got our increase and it was acceptable by everybody . |
| 42 | Mrs Taylor gave Frankie and me a piece of bread pudding each but we did n't like the smell of it so we threw it over the wall on the way back to our house . |
| 43 | Together we assisted him into the taxi . |
| 44 | Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain . |
| 45 | remains something of a mystery , but perhaps they took it as a reference to our well-known problems with fractured sewer pipes and the directive from Europe . |
| 46 | Perhaps they used him as a mine-detector ! |
| 47 | So they moved them to the Catherine Palace . |
| 48 | So they put him in the kitchens . |
| 49 | The children put all the presents in the pram , and at three o'clock they pushed it to the Perks 's little yellow house . |
| 50 | Together they offered it to the world 's women . |
| 51 | Dazedly he saw them by the sagging chaise-longue . |
| 52 | Naturally he cribbed it for the title of a pamphlet , when what I actually meant by it was some advice . |
| 53 | Thoughtfully he thrust it into the base of a bush a few feet from the path and covered it with dried leaves . |
| 54 | Perhaps he saw them as a threat . |
| 55 | But perhaps he preferred it to a haunted house , because , as he saw it , that would require metaphysics as well . |
| 56 | Obviously he put it across a lot better than what I did but the actual message of getting that across |
| 57 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 58 | So he clothed her in the Waters of Life . ’ |
| 59 | So he walked him round the beat until the sergeant found him . |
| 60 | So he left me in a stew of doubt . |