Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [conj] [pron] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the walls heard this delirious talk , but I was suddenly seized by a guilty fear , and became convinced that the two children were taking it in and that it was ringing in Aisha 's ears at work , and I rushed to pack my suitcase before she came back . |
| 2 | He loved her both when she was cast down and when she was leaping up , and also in between when she was normal , although as far as Zeinab was concerned normality was a flexible concept . |
| 3 | Nails , getting the taste of it , stopped being terrified and began to keep his eyes open long enough to judge the thoroughbred 's stride as he approached a jump and to know when he was going to stand off and when he was going to put a quick one in . |
| 4 | The toilet was er at the back of what we used to call the brew house it was n't a kitchen it was a brew house , and er the , the toilet was at the back of the brew house adjacent to the old ash pit , which was an ash pit in those days it was filled up and when it was filled , they used to come at night and empty the ash pit wheel up the entry it might be there for three or four months and you got flies , bluebottles all sorts in the hot weather you know , I could n't try my shoes on sometimes , but er it was a bit , well I suppose in those days they used to take it for granted , it was a bit primitive it was n't the best five houses in the area , but er |
| 5 | It was the beginning of these automatics , you 've seen these photos on the , on the television where these welders come down and they go in like this , well these was the beginning of that sort of thing because it was worked with a motor and a cam which er er the cam went round and it 'd lift the arm up and when it was went past the , the knuckle it 'd drop down and the speed you them out or the speed you sent them out how fast the arm would go up and down , and that was stitch welding . |
| 6 | His lamp had gone out and while he was relighting it , our car must have passed and he fired his rifle vaguely in our direction . |
| 7 | He realised that they could n't put the fire out and that something was going to happen . |