Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he offered me a place ( perhaps out of consideration for my father ) , and I duly began my undergraduate career . |
| 2 | Dusk was falling as I eventually made my way back into town . |
| 3 | Other special Air Force camps were built in different parts of Germany and it was in these that I eventually spent my rime as a prisoner . |
| 4 | That was how I eventually got my bicycle . |
| 5 | I eventually had my baby , a little girl , but she was born with spina bifida . |
| 6 | I eventually had my baby , a little girl , but she was born with spina bifida . |
| 7 | When I eventually reached his house we got out his canoe . |
| 8 | The postman handed me a letter as I eventually reached my Pop 's house — it was an offer of a council house . |
| 9 | The great problem I faced , when I eventually obtained my degree in zoology , was that to convert my childhood fascination into an adult career I would have to carry out experiments on animals . |
| 10 | I slowly made my way down the road . |
| 11 | I slowly shook my head . |
| 12 | I did , but I slowly shook my head . |
| 13 | He gave me a few quick , curious glances from time to time as I slowly sipped my coffee , but he did not appear to have heard any of the rumours . |
| 14 | When I started on my mental journey ; the way seemed to be dark and impossible , yet I slowly found my way ; and so can everyone else . |
| 15 | I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year . |
| 16 | So I merely downplayed my reply . |
| 17 | I personally registered my version of Frombat and used it to create the Transend Menu Program , issued with every Shareware disc , and the Transend Catalogue which only took 3 hours to write . |
| 18 | And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work . |
| 19 | I was particularly distressed when I personally sanctioned his return to operational flying after a short period as an instructor at an OTU . |
| 20 | I gently prised my wrist free . |
| 21 | She did not resist as I gently opened her mouth . |
| 22 | My main subsequent regret is that I only knew my father from the perspective of parent to child and not from that of adult ( parent ) to adult ( son ) whence different qualities and traits of personality come to be appreciated . |
| 23 | I only knew my mother and grandmother and life was not easy — we often went hungry . |
| 24 | I am sorry I have been so long in replying but I only got your letter two days ago . |
| 25 | I only saw her sister . |
| 26 | Whilst I was in prison I only saw my daughter twice . |
| 27 | Do you think I only saw his Ba ? |
| 28 | In the Ethiopian revolution no one for a long time knew the fate of Haile Fida , leader of the left-wing Meison group : I only had his death confirmed when the Ethiopian lift-operator in a DC hotel told me he had been in the same cell when Haile was taken out to be shot . |
| 29 | Mr , hello I 've had a quick word with Mike and he seems to think there 's some correspondence on the file , I 'll have to go and find the file and get back to you , so , er you , I have n't got your , your phone number there I do n't think , er I only had your fax number right , I 'll get back as soon as I can , thank you bye bye . |
| 30 | Actually I 've rather hurried through that objective part of our I only had my time to bring before you one other very important issue and two other pieces of information . |