Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barak instinctively stuffed them back into his pocket then rubbed his hands together nervously . |
| 2 | We presumed this to be a regular ford and drove across with the water slopping in over the floor of the Land rover , but we eventually made it up on to the high inland plateau . |
| 3 | But he survived his brush with death and eventually made it back to an English hospital . |
| 4 | Implicit within the ruling was the concept that once an abortion restriction had been upheld in one state , other states could implement it , an interpretation which effectively made it more difficult to challenge the imposition by individual states of restrictions as long as they were within the guidelines established by the Court 's ruling in June 1992 on Roe v. Wade [ see p. 38954 ] . |
| 5 | Ormanroyd wins the header Speedy flicks it on again and Chettle er Chettle rather got it away as Jochim came in on him . |
| 6 | He successfully fought them off and they fled empty-handed . |
| 7 | ‘ I politely asked him not to bully me but that infuriated him . |
| 8 | It was very warm for Kirkistown and I lost concentration half way through , but luckily got it back together before the end . ’ |
| 9 | It was very warm for Kirkistown and I lost concentration half way through , but luckily got it back together before the end . ’ |
| 10 | I waited and waited for him at the points and eventually met him about three or four o'clock in the morning for the first time . |
| 11 | He pulled the syringe out , and weakly flung it away . |
| 12 | Worse still , an injury kept Sure Sharp idle for the rest of his second season and it was only last year that Hills eventually got him back into action . |
| 13 | The thread eventually led him out once more to safety . |
| 14 | He fought with everything he had — his helmet , his raincoat , his truncheon , his kicks , rubble from the ground ; he even used the van to shield himself from the frenzied attack which relentlessly beat him back . |
| 15 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 16 | He was slightly perturbed by this but eventually found it very funny because rehearsals became very convivial . |
| 17 | Once she was satisfied that Petion and the Marines were far enough away , Ace triggered the energy beam at the base of the door , and slowly drew it upwards , describing an arch wide enough for two people to pass through . |
| 18 | He had lifted the locket on its fine gold chain and deftly fastened it around her neck . |
| 19 | But er we eventually beat it though and as I say a good colliery you could er you could beat 'em to it . |
| 20 | I did not dare move , and yet I did : I put my hand on his thigh , and slowly moved it up towards the centre of my desire . |
| 21 | In fact , the wonderful night they had just shared only made her more determined than ever to go . |
| 22 | It was a sad thing to Beth , and one which only made her all the more determined to draw Matthew back into the family fold . |
| 23 | Unused to being argued with , he shouted and cursed at her , and soon the two of them were arguing fiercely , he having trouble making articulate sentences due to his excessive amount of drink , which only made him yet angrier . |
| 24 | In her heart , Beth sensed that he knew the way of things , and this only made him all the more determined to have a son of his own . |
| 25 | He went from her now , with that familiar slight limping stride that only made him more attractive . |
| 26 | You will say I ought to have informed you I would not part with the boy in such circumstances as you had taken trouble to describe but until I saw the girl I was not sure in my own mind what to do and only made it up when confronted with her and not taking to her at all . |
| 27 | She knew that the Princesse suspected her of having taken Andrzej as a lover , but that only made it all the more plausible . |
| 28 | Sturt , who would have been able to take a much faster and direct route , only made it as far as the western approaches to the bend , and was so hard-pressed by lack of water that he had to bleed a horse to survive . |
| 29 | The danger , as Andrei Gavrilov hints at elsewhere in this issue , is that the large emigration of musicians to the West that has taken place since restrictions were relaxed may mean that Russian musical life will lose those very qualities that not only made it technically of such high standing but that also gave it its unique flavour . |
| 30 | The threat of another war only made it more urgent for him to preserve his symbolic status , so that he could be the French people 's supreme recourse should catastrophe strike once again . |