Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I came across these things you see when we were first married because I used to write out all Hector 's bills for him , by hand before we had a typewriter |
| 2 | So I went through this process and I started to read my thoughts generally , not to be too much one way or the other . |
| 3 | So I went towards this soil and there was father in the bottom of a grave . |
| 4 | I said So I said to this Richard , I said excuse me I said but your phone 's not working downstairs I said have you got one upstairs ? |
| 5 | I thought well after ten years , I thought , well I want I still want to get on and erm so I heard of this job down at Cambridge Station as Assistant Manageress at the Refreshment Rooms , you see , and er it was n't quite the same because er at Ipswich , you see , although the Catering Manager 's office er my work was office work and typing you know general thing and er because he was away most of the day , most days , because of er er the ten stations er from stretching as I say from Chelmsford , Witham , Marks Tey , Colchester and er I think it was Clacton and er and Manningtree and er I think , I do n't know Manningtree and Ipswich of course and er then er Bury St Edmunds and , and that 's it and I am not sure whether you went to Newmarket or whether to Ca whether to Cambridge now Newmarket but er , you see , so the days went on and we worked every other Sunday and of course I know things were a lot cheaper then but you see the pay was n't , was n't very good . |
| 6 | So I got aboard this cab , and the guy said , Buddy where do you want to go to ? |
| 7 | ‘ As I said , it 's up to you , ’ said this stupid young man , who could have done anything he liked to me — or so I felt at that moment — if only he had done it , and not talked about it first , trying to strike a bargain . |
| 8 | So I looked through this device and er found what the reading it gave , so I went to my map and I found that that 's where Mars should have been . |
| 9 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 10 | So I sat on this stool thing and Marie pulled the curtain and the light flashed twice and then Marie leaps in and sits on my lap , and it flashes again . |
| 11 | The R/T was bad and I thought he said ‘ below you ’ so I concentrated on that section of the sky almost exclusively , leaving it to Dick to watch above us . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , then your outraged mother leapt into the car which was loaded with our luggage because we intended to be off to Urbino that morning , and apparently she decided on some kind of hara-kiri or felo de se , a consummation of our marriage devoutly to be wished but never performed . |
| 13 | Timidly she tacked on another question that bothered her . |
| 14 | So she scored on that line . |
| 15 | So she agreed to that bargain , and for a few days more kept the secret to herself , still hopeful that she might be mistaken , and yet at the same time aware of a feeling of inner triumph at the knowledge that she had her very own baby growing inside her womb . |
| 16 | So we returned from that evening together and were very enthusiastic about what we heard . |
| 17 | So we got on that bus , and he did n't like it , this bus driver , oh , you 're not supposed to be on here |
| 18 | So we sat on this row and it was Paul and his young lady and David all in the row with us . |
| 19 | So we moved to another bar , remarking how times had changed . |
| 20 | So they lived through another day — together in the same house , but more separately than ever before . |
| 21 | The less they saw of each other , Constance had reluctantly accepted over the years , the better friends she and her mother were . |
| 22 | Suddenly it shortened to half height , less . |
| 23 | So he came along this morning and picked it up ! |
| 24 | So it started in that kind of fashion really . |
| 25 | But soon we progressed to more state , of-the-art experimentation . |
| 26 | Of course they 're all putting their hands up by me see , and Da , I thought David would clock , and he never said a word , I thought he ai n't sussed it , anyway they went on this night out and the girls kept saying , Debbie saying oh Lynn just come , I said I ai n't got no intentions of coming , I said David 's going amongst all the others I 'm not going , so Debbie said why , I said why because David is nothing but a wanker , a lot , along , a lot of the others , she said , she nearly fell off the chair , gordon bennett she said I never thought you , I never realised you felt like that , I said Debbie if you knew half of what I thought you would fall off that chair |
| 27 | so , erm , last night when we came home I looked at this Argos ticket which I could n't find and I 've , in that I 've found what erm a Weight Watcher er menu , so I picked that out , so I 've had erm do n't know what you 'll call it today , boiled egg and toast , eh bread and butter |
| 28 | The more I thought of that midnight face , the more intelligent and charming it became ; and it seemed too to have had a breeding , a fastidiousness , a delicacy , that attracted me as fatally as the local fishermen 's lamps attracted fish on moonless nights . |
| 29 | But once I got into this set of gay men , it took over my social life almost completely . |
| 30 | I made few friends , but once I adapted to this life I do not think I was particularly unhappy . |