Example sentences of "[vb past] and [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he could n't control it , for all his knowledge , and it would lift his hair into bristles so that he looked like Desperate Dan and she could n't help but laugh until his fragile ego wobbled and then he shouted and then she loved him more , more than when he was intact . |
| 2 | This we promised and so I tell you Perestroika had not yet reached that part of the world . |
| 3 | And then I sank and then I came up again . |
| 4 | He peered and suddenly he saw a large form . |
| 5 | And he stopped and luckily there was just enough room for me to slow down and just go between them . |
| 6 | So he stopped and then it fell , and it fell short of the hundred pound they wanted . |
| 7 | Govt. defeated and so I am to be P.M. The load will be heavy and I am so much alone . |
| 8 | The survey also asked companies a series of questions on what sources of market research they used and also what barriers companies felt had inhibited their export performance . |
| 9 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |
| 10 | Well I tried and then I was let down by the group . |
| 11 | I was just about to say I expect you could really make a mess if you tried and then I realized I was covered in and I 'd better shut up . |
| 12 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 13 | Duncan sniffed and then he nibbled and then he chewed . |
| 14 | This policeman was having to give evidence and he 'd come to talk , oh I see you 've had the baby , cos he was talking to me it had happened I said , oh what did you have blah blah blah , blah blah blah , but the little devil went in the witness box , he denied about not being there on duty about putting his mac on , ooh and he 'd never clapped eyes on barrister or a solicitor and they said he 'll meet you before the case , so we had to go extra early meet this barrister and he never came and so they took us in this little room in all his wig and his gown , we got , oh what happened ? |
| 15 | And I , yes he came and so he says I 've got the keys to the flat he said , you do n't want to come and look at it do you ? |
| 16 | Rodney 's great wings flapped , driving snow into the dog 's eyes , his feet with their two inch long spurs flailed and suddenly they parted . |
| 17 | I knew Penny Lane and it was , alas , enough Crilly , and when my father came one day and asked what I was looking at , I said Penny Lane and he stood for awhile and looked for awhile , while the roof held its breath it seemed and then he said , after all that standing and all that looking , he said , ‘ You 're right ’ , and hoisted me up upon his shoulders . |
| 18 | And in the first lesson nobody noticed and yet I was really noisy , and in the second lesson nobody noticed . |
| 19 | They were hanging around town when they met and now they see each other about five times a week . |
| 20 | All those positions were going for want of an application , so I applied and because brought in people who he knew , certain of them were automatically filled but they want the Chief Administration Officer , so I applied and really I do n't kid myself that I got it because of my qualification because I had n't got any letters after my name . |
| 21 | And he checked and then he went So I took the bags off the pillows in case they were sweating in the bags and I put them out on the seats . |
| 22 | Nobody cared and now nobody can even see clearly in Los Angeles where twenty-eight days spent in the city constitute a health hazard , and smog from car exhausts hangs over the L A basin from the San Gabriel mountains to the ocean . |
| 23 | He said he felt he often failed and yet it was important to keep on trying . |
| 24 | I have tried to bring him to me and failed and now I can not hope any longer . |
| 25 | ‘ Richardson had a chance of qualifying in the world championships but he failed and now he has won his place the officials think that their choice was justified , but it was not . ’ |
| 26 | The Factor named a price , Antinou countered and so it went on for quite a while . |
| 27 | I cursed but did as he requested and afterwards we slipped down the darkened stairway out of the main door where Benjamin had ordered a sleepy-eyed groom to bring round the horses . |
| 28 | Sometimes they fought and sometimes they fucked and there seemed little difference between the two . |
| 29 | The ladies are monitored very carefully and scanned and sometimes they pick up cancer in another part of the body which |
| 30 | Those involved are either too distressed , too wounded or too ill-equipped to say what happened and yet it is vital , for the safety of others , that it be brought to public notice . |