Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looks around her , dazed and sluggish , while her brain tries to piece together the blurred details and recollections that will tell her where she is , and — which she would rather forget-what brought her here . |
| 2 | But , although it was something to tell the others at school , secretly I thought he was important enough already . |
| 3 | ‘ Secretly I applauded your decision . ’ |
| 4 | Thankfully I brought my certificates with me . |
| 5 | Thankfully I accepted his invitation to ‘ jump in the back ’ , and home we sped . |
| 6 | Regretfully I pushed her clear . |
| 7 | ‘ Mostly I hoped they had n't . ’ |
| 8 | But mostly I imagined you asleep , left utterly to yourself in a situation where my own absence from your life did not matter : |
| 9 | Very slowly I took my weight on the good hand and slid my feet over the rim of the tub . |
| 10 | Ever so slowly I raised my head and camera and there it was . |
| 11 | Slowly I opened my eyes . |
| 12 | Right I got my key then . |
| 13 | So I said to him , right I said we either go I mean I keep saying to him you 've got ta do something about this ! |
| 14 | Right I said I 'll start tomorrow morning , I go to the Labour this afternoon , Court of Referees . |
| 15 | John 's told me to tell you to go and get it , right I said I said Richard coming , for four hundred pound I you 're not coming for it so that 's it oh you think it was pub machine or |
| 16 | If the racket came right I felt it gave him the confidence to go for the shots . |
| 17 | Eventually I asked him how he had become a Christian and why he had believed , and then asked him how he would answer some of the questions that his visit to a French university was bound to raise . |
| 18 | I also wondered about why we never saw Nellie 's Dad and eventually I asked her about him . |
| 19 | He kept interrupting and eventually I told him he could n't sit in on our discussions any more and I explained why . |
| 20 | Eventually I told him it had been Mazzin , who was duly summoned . |
| 21 | Eventually I reached our yard safely and entered the house breathless . |
| 22 | Eventually I left them to it and went off into the night , the bells keeping me company through the streets . |
| 23 | It took me time to find out what was wrong but eventually I sorted it out . |
| 24 | This time she more or less flew straight to me , and I felt confident enough to fly her another three or four times , each one successfully , although eventually I sensed she was losing interest , fretfully tearing at her jesses and gazing round . |
| 25 | She showed a distinctively un-retriever-like fear of water , so eventually I carried her out and set her afloat . |
| 26 | Eventually I got her redirected , and she told me what she 'd found . |
| 27 | Eventually I got myself an editor who explained to me how to write a book , more or less , and what purple prose was , and all of that . |
| 28 | Off she went ‘ to see ’ and eventually I got my two pieces of wholemeal , well more or less wholemeal , bread . |
| 29 | But eventually I got it right , I had to — I could n't do the advanced course without the basic one under my belt . |
| 30 | Eventually I fed them , shut them in their kennels ; did n't go to the dining room where dinner would have been waiting , already cold ; instinct walked my weight to Leon 's bedroom . |