Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Most people are accustomed to follow linguistic rules more or less slavishly , but in this case they would be glad to change if only someone gave them a new set of clear rules to follow ( an earlier work by Miller and Swift was subtitled ‘ New Language in New Times ’ : it seems they take the optimistic view that we are living in a postfeminist world ) . |
| 3 | Though I had never been hurt like this before , strangely enough I bore him no resentment for these beatings , accepting them as the penalty for what I had done . |
| 4 | felt like cryin' so I had me a session And I |
| 5 | So I thought it no less than my duty to book us into somewhere special on the west coast for a week . |
| 6 | she was smoking like that so I made her a cup of tea took it in and put it on the stool . |
| 7 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 8 | So I asked him a question . ’ |
| 9 | So I ordered him a load of coal . |
| 10 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 11 | And I said I said so I told her the registration and she gave me the room number but she said . |
| 12 | You ask me so I told ya no point in arguing , you wo n't make a very good politician , shut up , sod off |
| 13 | So I sent them a tape of stuff , and they liked that track . |
| 14 | So I sent them a tape of stuff , and they liked that track . |
| 15 | So I wrote him a letter , told him I 'm here , I ca n't get a job , so he managed to get a job for me . |
| 16 | So I met him a couple of times . ’ |
| 17 | So I bought myself a bike , and I 've been popping backwards and forwards to my like |
| 18 | So I did it a lot . |
| 19 | So I rang him a bit later , Now look , we 've got a weeks notice , we know it 's gon na take some time . |
| 20 | So I gave him a copy of my summary . |
| 21 | So I gave him a yard of slack line and decided to wait it out . |
| 22 | so I gave him a couple of quid , three quid , for lending me it plus the spinner cos spinner do n't work on washer |
| 23 | Well , in my book nothing comes before football and so I gave them a simple ultimatum : ‘ Make your choice . |
| 24 | So I gave myself the day off . ’ |
| 25 | The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss . |
| 26 | So I gave you a topic sport or a hobby or an interest that you had and you produced a thought pattern for that just as we 'd done in the practice one with the subject of water , but then we moved on a stage further to get what are called a structured thought pattern . |
| 27 | ‘ I hit the fish and stright away though it was a good one , but my son Tony has never caught a pike so I handed him the rod , ’ said Lee . |
| 28 | So I found him a small house called Kirk o'Field , outside Edinburgh . |
| 29 | The younger one wanted to be a sailor , and so I found him a place on a ship . |
| 30 | So I allowed him the honour of endorsing my change of name . |