Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you enjoy seeing your father 's studio ? ’ she suddenly asked and it seemed to Jenna that not only did Alain stiffen alarmingly but Marguerite appeared to ice over . |
| 2 | The telephone suddenly rang and she started nervously before hurrying to answer it . |
| 3 | Then , after apparently sorting everything out band-wise , Jeremy suddenly disappeared and we did n't know if he 'd been ‘ offed ’ , or what , given the uncertainty of Los Angeles . |
| 4 | Maggie actually jumped as Felipe suddenly appeared and she looked round hastily for his clinging companion and her rather bold husband . |
| 5 | I merely smiled and he got up , patting his face with his handkerchief , talking about the pollution of the water in London , about tests carried out and how soon everyone would have to boil drinking water first , it 's turning into a third-world city , he said , a third-world country , no one will admit it but England is turning into a third-world country . |
| 6 | He pressed it gently shut and it held ; loosely and with a slight gap , but it held . |
| 7 | Cinzia 's eyes suddenly flashed and she smiled , displaying an excessive number of rather dirty teeth . |
| 8 | Mosley revolted over the wrong crisis , for he failed to see that considerable social and economic reform would result from a Second World War , a conflagration which he bitterly opposed and which led to his internment in 1940 . |
| 9 | We were getting more mileage out of an asset we already owned and it gave the business a wider base to cope with fluctuations in any part of it . |
| 10 | He lowered himself gingerly to a gilt chair and stirred his coffee , the spoon circulating slowly until it finally stopped and he sat staring at it . |
| 11 | And he just knocked on the door and you just came and you read the card and that was it . |
| 12 | He soon remarried and it appears that his second wife had no qualms about sharing the bedchamber with her predecessor . |
| 13 | And even if a miracle somehow happened and he agreed to try again , it would simply end up exactly the same way it did the first time . |
| 14 | and it just went and we had to get these guys who , who did the washing machine |
| 15 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
| 16 | She was so beautiful that I just melted and we went to this tiny little room , where she washed me . |
| 17 | And the thing just snowballed and we 've managed to accumulate something like £6,000 and about 40 tons of gifts in the form of children 's clothing , children 's toys er medicaments of one sort or another , various creams recommended to us by pediatricians , er shampoos and other things like antibiotics and so on which we 're taking over on behalf of er a medical team from Banbury . |
| 18 | The memory of my encounter with Jeanne Kennedy and how I 'd run away remained and I thought it stayed with me from shame . |
| 19 | I was cleaning out knives and the metal thing that goes over the knives there was something there and it was a nail and I just pushed and I caught it . |
| 20 | The staff admit that a sudden rise in entrances to the zoo was likely to be largely due to an interest by the public who wanted to visit it before it finally closed and they agree that problems remain for the future . |
| 21 | PRESSED for the pros and cons of being the son of one of the famous , Rock replies : ‘ I think I 'm among the most blessed of people who ever lived and I think Liza is too . |
| 22 | I still hesitated and she added , ‘ You wo n't regret it , believe me . |
| 23 | Fascination with the older girls won just as it always did and she crossed the landing , an expanse of lino dotted with what her mother referred to as ‘ slip mats ’ , pushed open the door and went in . |
| 24 | I believe it is the most powerful poem he ever wrote and I want to analyse the way in which he maintains the clenched fist of resistant energy through four rhyming quatrains . |
| 25 | I though Tyler was the best writer NME ever had and I 've since found out that him and Ian McDonald were the ones that gave the NME its style in the first place . |
| 26 | He held her attention as nothing else ever had and she knew without memory that this was a master , a genius at work . |
| 27 | Anyway , I went back to the bookcase and Chris , in fact , also came and we looked for them , he said , here it is ! |
| 28 | It was a relief when we felt ourselves fairly started and we enjoyed the beautiful sail down Loch Tarbert … |
| 29 | Years ago I had a class of very bright children and they did some really good projects , they were n't silly projects where they just scribble a bit an and draw some rubbish the they really worked and I saw to it that they produced really good work |
| 30 | Charlotte did get the position of nanny and often travelled on the same train home on her days off , always in the first compartment behind the tender and always hoping that she would see Albert , which she often did and she leaned out of the window to talk to him when the train stopped in the stations . |