Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [conj] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train . |
| 2 | It eventually got that they were typed and put into cellophane covers which made it a lot easier . |
| 3 | Now this is people 's traditional expectation and they still have it , whereas we 're of the mind that instead of this er you 've very cleverly got in this circle and the last day that I suddenly realized that we 're all equal and moving around in a reasonably organized manner but still we 're rather loose , whereas the traditional view is a parish councillor says it and everybody does the rest , with a few er renegades and revolutionaries at varying parts in your parish . |
| 4 | ‘ We suddenly realized that we were as free as air , and could n't think of a thing to do with this unexpected liberty . |
| 5 | I suddenly realized that I was n't myself any more : I did n't give a damn whether he was wearing a tie or not . ’ |
| 6 | I suddenly realized that I was going mad too , that he was wickedly wickedly cunning . |
| 7 | I suddenly realized that she was a pretty woman . |
| 8 | I suddenly realized that there were a lot of worthwhile things I could do if I were reprieved . |
| 9 | my legs , I suddenly realized when I was changing at the swimming pool , and thought oh sod it , who 's gon na notice , I mean , at half past seven , I really ca n't get that excited about it . |
| 10 | She suddenly realised that they were both staring at her , watching the expressions chase each other across her face . |
| 11 | However , whatever the reason , she suddenly realised that she was feeling far too tired and exhausted to pick yet another fight with Ross . |
| 12 | I suddenly realised that there were all these great black players around in Louisiana , and that I 'd missed them completely ! |
| 13 | ‘ At first I thought art was simply a matter of reproducing what I saw ; but one day I saw a reproduction of Piero della Francesca 's Pietà , and I suddenly realised that there was a huge spiritual element in painting . |
| 14 | On my way out of the shed , I suddenly realised that I was not on my own . |
| 15 | At lunchtime the aid started going off and I suddenly realised that I was n't going to get through the afternoon — ’ |
| 16 | I suddenly realised that he was very , very interested . |
| 17 | Then I suddenly realised that it was a film set . |
| 18 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 19 | He only became as it were conscious again when he realised that she was on to another topic . |
| 20 | On the third evening after his return from the castle , he suddenly announced that he was going back to Kinghorn . |
| 21 | I suddenly found that I was losing my powers at a time when I needed them most . |
| 22 | The spelling mistakes only occurred when I was shouted . |
| 23 | We started , and indeed I started , by removing all deputies in the organization , and then trying to persuade others to ensure that another hierarchical layer in the tree only occurred when there was a quite measurably different job to be done from the layer below it . |
| 24 | During these past ten years , he had learned a great deal about his stepfather 's business ; not only did he trudge the streets collecting money , which he then took to the bank after it had been religiously recounted by Luther , but he was the one who made all the entries into the ledgers ; he was the one who always met with accountants and reported back to his stepfather , who constantly grumbled that he was ‘ too ill and racked with pain' to weigh himself down with the burden of meetings and ridiculous men in ridiculous suits , with their ridiculous ideas that a man should always invest the money he earns with the sweat of his brow … |
| 25 | Those killed were members of trade unions in an area which , with a total of 10,000 troops , has become so highly militarized that there is one soldier for every two banana workers . |
| 26 | He refused to comment on whether his organisation was carrying out the interviewing or ‘ disclosure ’ work on the children ; , he merely reiterated that they were involved in offering their assistance in whatever way was required by the department who had contracted them . |
| 27 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 28 | I suddenly noticed that we were diving down again . |
| 29 | Preobrazhensky not only forgot that it is necessary to examine each mode of production in its specific , if general , forms but also that the manner of investigation will be conditioned by these forms . |
| 30 | about the room were high chairs and low chairs , bandy-legged chairs , chairs so attenuated that it was a wonder any but a sylph could sit upon them , marqueterie tables covered with marvellous gimcracks , china ornaments of all ages and countries , bronzes , gilt daggers , Books of Beauty , yataghans , Turkish papooshes and boxes of Parisian bonbons … |