Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But slowly my madness left me , and my health began to return . |
| 2 | They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots ( as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels ) , and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together — caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled — but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable , and so instigated what they termed a ‘ brainstorming session ’ in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism . |
| 3 | I do n't know how long I was sitting there , but eventually my dad came back and sat down in his chair opposite me . |
| 4 | Eventually my father took me to my room , undressed me and put me to bed . |
| 5 | Eventually my father lost inspiration with the Clough/Armfield/Stein/Adamson era , but not before I had a chance to see Leeds beat Anderlect ( 3–0 in the fog ) followed by Barcelona ( Cruyft , Neeskens , etc. 2–1 for the aging ex-Revie team to make their way to Paris in 1975 . |
| 6 | In any case — thank God — eventually my period came and I knew I was n't pregnant . |
| 7 | When someone protests at his callousness he says ‘ Would you rather my hand shook ? ’ . |
| 8 | I do not claim to be comprehensive in what follows , rather my aim has been to assess some of the main features of kin support in the past which have particular relevance to the central theme of this book — how important are duty , obligation and responsibility in motivating the support which people give to their relatives ? |
| 9 | ‘ The pushchair and all its added extras was another major expense , but luckily my parents treated me to it . |
| 10 | Luckily my father grew tired of this grand scheme and contented himself with firing the odd surprise question at me concerning the capacity of the umbrella-stand in pints or the total area in fractions of an acre of all the curtains in the house actually hung up at the time . |
| 11 | Luckily my audience does n't make that restriction . ’ |
| 12 | A little bit sarcastically my boss said er to the owners There 's nothing else that we have n't seen is there ? |
| 13 | right I wannae know what |
| 14 | ‘ When I got back to the base and was told he was dead my legs went from under me . |
| 15 | So me Dad twists his arm a bit , like . |
| 16 | But me Mum were n't there , so them nurses had to invent it themselves . |
| 17 | That 's all you 've got to go , so them poles have got to be cut down to five foot , two five foots , four , four five foots |
| 18 | I think perhaps my grandmother felt it to be unethical , that 's all . |
| 19 | Perhaps my Maker did not intend that my brain should function perfectly . |
| 20 | Perhaps my attempts to undermine the managers credibility are coming to fruition at last : - ) ) ) |
| 21 | Perhaps my brain had n't fully recovered at the time , despite the sleep . |
| 22 | So perhaps my overkill misses the target : perhaps the behaviourist analysis of perception is sound , even though a general behaviourism is not , and what BS lacks is not knowledge of the nature of certain mental states , but only the ability to respond spontaneously to visual stimuli , that is , to respond as a result of actually seeing them . |
| 23 | Perhaps my mother had received another anonymous letter which she had successfully concealed from me ? |
| 24 | ‘ But perhaps my brother has become over-confident . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Then perhaps my eyes deceived me ? |
| 26 | Perhaps my face looks like the message is not getting through . |
| 27 | I had n't thought it important , but perhaps my power to open the hollowings has been affected by its absence . ’ |
| 28 | But perhaps my compulsion to write in these circumstances is as strong as yours ! |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps my father did n't get that plane , ’ I thought . |
| 30 | Apparently my mother had worked at a big house somewhere and fallen in love , but it had all gone wrong . |