Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] [coord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We got him halfway up the lane and we got so tired and I left them and came on ahead , ’ Sacco blurted out . |
| 2 | Perhaps I had managed to fulfil their expectations , because their faces became less watchful and they smiled , and said goodbye before walking primly up the path — to burst out into the sunshine and race each other down the hill . |
| 3 | On the Quakers ' goal of the season so far , he said : ‘ I ca n't remember a lot about the build up , but the ball sort of bounced just right and I let fly . |
| 4 | Gesner seemed rather wooden and he kept giving Therese a speculative scowl . |
| 5 | His eyes dropped blatantly downward and she remembered with a start that she was wearing only a flimsy nightdress , barely skimming the tops of her slender thighs . |
| 6 | Otherwise he seemed much better and he ate his lunch like a hungry schoolboy . |
| 7 | He glared at me , quite beside himself with rage , and the whole scene seemed so absurd and nothing to do with anything that had really happened , that I began to laugh in a wild , helpless way , snorting through my nose . |
| 8 | At first it all seemed dreadfully wrong and we did what our family always do in such situations ; we were facetious . |
| 9 | Recognition of this new client awareness came fairly late and it served to liven the ‘ flats versus houses ’ debate at the end of the 1930s and into the 1940s . |
| 10 | Well he seemed quite nice and I thought , well are you the one that |
| 11 | Her ribcage seemed too small and she panted for air . |
| 12 | I had noticed the name on the map ; it seemed very remote but I had seen a reference to an inn there . |
| 13 | She seemed very nice and I thought she could act and we had a nice rapport , but I said to Sam , ‘ I just feel she 's the wrong type for a guy who 's a teacher in college . |
| 14 | Er I was in the credit and I was with a large group of people there and they seemed very happy and I think we were fair , we 'd got good conditions . |
| 15 | Whilst waiting to go to Spring Harvest my visits to church became more regular and I began to realise the truth of God 's Word . |
| 16 | The riding became more regular and I wanted to ride more often than I could . |
| 17 | The Queen Victoria jokes got more ferocious and they upset the dentist a great deal . |
| 18 | But when that was complete , it got more difficult and she lost interest . |
| 19 | Swayne said : ‘ Matt arrived about half-seven and we played chess — just the one game and it was a rout . |
| 20 | Mrs Wood 's face turned very red and she looked away . |
| 21 | His normal raggedness became positively disreputable and he spent much of his time sulking inside the McLaren motor-home : the joy had gone out of his life . |
| 22 | During this period her message became increasingly apocalyptic and she disrupted public meetings and religious gatherings , acquiring a following of several women and arousing the antagonism of the Quaker leaders , who tried unsuccessfully to restrain her . |
| 23 | But like medicine it did him good , and the food tasted better than it looked , and after a while the silence grew less tense and they began to chat about the contrast between bloody-minded , earnest Perugia , just visible on its wind-swept ridge as a distant smudge of grey , and Assisi , symbol of everything nice and pretty and kind , whose pink stone made even its fortifications look as innocent as an illustration in a book of fairy tales . |
| 24 | ‘ That right is a natural punch for me and could be the best I 've ever thrown , it felt so good and I did n't get any shock at all up my arm . |
| 25 | When I came round I felt much better and I turned my back on the lake and went home . |
| 26 | Simon Wigg says that everybody was laughing at him because the bike looked so different but he had the last laugh … won the title and that 's what it 's all about … |
| 27 | I was nervous in the dressing room but once on the pitch and with the thrill of being presented to the Princess Royal it felt just great and I have never been so proud in my life , especially when I saw my sister , Kirsty , up in the stand . |
| 28 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 29 | And I could n't remember it was forty four and my mind went totally blank and I had to walk out of the exam for over half an hour with a and I could n't remember a thing and went back in . |
| 30 | 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 . |