Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [pron] " 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 | Stepping briefly outside , he called for a bottle of Clairin to be brought , and the woman who had shown them in brought it instantly . |
| 3 | And these people took them in cleaned them up put them in like a bloody sheet , and all sorts he said |
| 4 | The young man who had let them in introduced himself as Malengin Fole . |
| 5 | George Eliot had loved the bonnets and sprigged china — because she knew them , or because writing them down gave her power over them , made her gentle and generous to their meaning ? |
| 6 | And Dalglish must have gone into shock again as the side who have so far swept all before them suddenly surrendered their 100 per cent home record . |
| 7 | That did n't take them long did it ? |
| 8 | He got me so riled I lost a race this afternoon I should have won . |
| 9 | At the Council of Arminium forty-five years later , there were four British bishops , one of whom apparently paid his own way — which would seem to indicate some degree of prosperity . |
| 10 | But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation . |
| 11 | Some of them obviously exceeded their duties in their zeal for examination improvement , as a memo of December 1942 makes clear : These examinations are to be regarded as a domestic affair of the Local Education Authorities for the conduct of which no responsibility must rest upon Inspectors … |
| 12 | Incidents such as this , and there were many more than I have recorded , could have worn me down had I not taken an almost fatalistic view . |
| 13 | He came after me , but he stopped when he saw me go inside ( as I instinctively knew he would — the only safe place from him was down here ) . |
| 14 | I instinctively knew I was going to like him . |
| 15 | Perhaps because I always went there in the heat of the afternoon , I rarely saw anyone in the gardens . |
| 16 | I rarely used them when I was a legitimate student much preferring the local pubs . |
| 17 | Wading dangerously mid-stream to release flies caught on underwater obstructions , I rarely caught anything else . |
| 18 | But it was going to be a real bummer not having the little guy around to chat with while I single-handedly solved my cases . |
| 19 | However , he offered me a place ( perhaps out of consideration for my father ) , and I duly began my undergraduate career . |
| 20 | Of course , to achieve that I needed the former whore 's co-operation so I secretly sent her the messages . ’ |
| 21 | So I er , I politely told him what he could do with that , well , I was eating his dinner and I could n't be too rude to him , but erm , you know , when er when , when confronted , I do n't give ground over that kind of thing . |
| 22 | ‘ I politely asked him not to bully me but that infuriated him . |
| 23 | There was one kid , however , who did n't move back as far as the rest of his row , so I politely asked him to get in line . |
| 24 | I uneasily awaited his first question about my journalistic ambitions . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | To pass the heaving multitudes on the track , I raced up like a fell runner , unhappily only to find each time I successfully overtook what looked like a queue for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that there were further extensive crocodiles of people ahead . |
| 27 | ‘ She gave me some help when I badly needed it . |
| 28 | That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating . |
| 29 | ‘ It was the chuckle he gave when I eventually dragged myself away . |
| 30 | Dusk was falling as I eventually made my way back into town . |