Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , it worked out very much better than expected , essentially because the two companies had outstanding chief executives , both of whom eventually succeeded me as chairman . |
| 2 | The young man who had let them in introduced himself as Malengin Fole . |
| 3 | But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation . |
| 4 | Perhaps because I always went there in the heat of the afternoon , I rarely saw anyone in the gardens . |
| 5 | To say I forcibly removed him in a headlock because he was ‘ In five short minutes , playing himself back into the job of Athletico manager ’ , is not only true but also likely to get this fanzine banned within a fifteen-mile radius of ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 6 | I eventually made it into the Yorkshire second XI and ultimately the first team . |
| 7 | After another series of battles with the employment exchange , the Royal National Institute for the Blind and various principals of local technical colleges , I eventually got myself onto a TOPS typing course at a college in south-west London . |
| 8 | ‘ When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew . |
| 9 | I eventually converted it into a feeder rod ( this was in the era before today 's more suitable weapons ) and it could throw a heavy feeder with ease . |
| 10 | After being stuck in traffic behind trailer upon trailer carrying ‘ The Doors ’ logo , I eventually found myself with director Oliver Stone watching a drunk and disorderly Morrison recording ‘ Touch Me ’ . |
| 11 | It only remained for us to forgive one another , and for my part I gladly forgave him for anything that might still need forgiveness . |
| 12 | ‘ I rather liked him in spite of myself . ’ |
| 13 | I rather fancied him for myself . ’ |
| 14 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 15 | He was magnificent again at Anfield and I personally thanked him after the game for what he had done . ’ |
| 16 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 17 | ‘ Does n't matter , I only brought them as a diversion anyway . |
| 18 | But I only associated it with wine . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I only told you about her staying away a lot and men turning up looking for her and things like that . |
| 20 | I only knew something of all this because the girl 's mother kept in touch with me occasionally through innocent looking postcards and just the one phone call put through to our telephone me when her husband died in 1986 . |
| 21 | ‘ I only got it from Lewens for fifteen ! ’ |
| 22 | I only saw him for half an hour . |
| 23 | I only saw him for a moment , but my blood seemed to freeze . |
| 24 | I only saw her for a day or two . ’ |
| 25 | It looked tall but I only saw it for a moment . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 27 | I only meant it for the best . |
| 28 | Might have been my idea — well , it was , but I only said it in a fit of temper ! — but she carried it out . |
| 29 | ‘ I only took her to the doctor because she had a bad nose bleed at playgroup , and I thought she looked a little pale . |
| 30 | I only took it in social situations . |