Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking the floor to prove to yourself it was not rising to crush your bed as the walls slowly gathered in towards you and the ceiling lowered itself steadily downwards until it was an inch above your face . |
| 2 | Apparently , though , it was not etiquette , a reality laughingly pointed out to her by Glyn when they had started going out with each other on a regular basis . |
| 3 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
| 4 | But Sara 's idea had obviously been the better one , he told himself , though without believing a word of it , for where would they all be now without ‘ Mama 's business venture , ’ as his stepson warmly pointed out to him on a walk round the garden this afternoon . |
| 5 | ‘ Better come along with me to Father Barnes . ’ |
| 6 | Except that I was all caught up in it , the romance and everything and the sunshine . |
| 7 | She was reassured when he suddenly looked down at her and winked appreciatively . |
| 8 | She was a docile creature and merely looked round at me as she cropped the grass ; and her eyes were no longer sunken but bright and full . |
| 9 | How clearly it had all come back to her — even the piping treble of her own childish voice . |
| 10 | Most people are amazed at our continuing friendship , but no malice is intended : even her nephew , Crawford , good-humouredly looked up at her recently purchased Venetian chandelier and asked , ‘ Aunt Margaret , is that plastic ? ’ |
| 11 | The South African foreign minister , Mr Pik Botha , publicly threatened to abort Namibian independence and was apparently cajoled out of it by Mrs Thatcher , who was in Windhoek when the trouble began . |
| 12 | ‘ Which must mean that , regardless of the fact that he 's so wound up over you he ca n't think straight , you 're only playing around with him for the pure hell of it . ’ |
| 13 | Lucker has obviously come back for me once , as there is a fresh note on the bed . |
| 14 | ready boxed up for you |
| 15 | Then he came in er sort of right at the end said , well look , I 'm so cheesed off with you lot |
| 16 | She 'd loved that dress , felt so grown up in it ! |
| 17 | I often thought it was a pointless exercise , but , as he said , ‘ If you do n't ask , you do n't get ’ , and he hoped that eventually they 'd get so fed up with him that they 'd deliver . |
| 18 | He got so fed up with it that he even tried a salmon shepherd 's pie to make it more interesting . |
| 19 | There was something in his voice that suddenly got through to her , and she felt a little tendril of pleasure unwinding inside . |
| 20 | Probably she 'll be so wrapped up in it she 'll feel differently . ’ |
| 21 | A broad and kindly lady of noble birth , Ibu ( meaning " mother " ) , as she was simply called , indulged her husband 's eccentricities , constantly tidied up after him and clearly ruled the household and the village . |
| 22 | It was all locked up inside me , all my sadness . " |
| 23 | It had suddenly borne in upon her that it was almost midnight and that she was in a strange flat in a strange city , with a strange man who was plying her with champagne . |
| 24 | So if you hate the theory so much , how come you 're so boned up on it ? |
| 25 | The point I have just made , about the dangers of the teacher being so bound up in her or his research that a genuinely critical perspective is made more unlikely , links to another argument that is often heard . |
| 26 | ‘ He is so laid back about it all . |
| 27 | ‘ It was all set up for us on Tuesday night , yet we went out to their only effort on goal . |
| 28 | They were only brought up by me . |
| 29 | As they passed close to the couple at table both the women recoiled as if the Devil himself had suddenly sprung up between them . |
| 30 | and say this group of four here , erm , will get this much shared out between us , so if there were a third as many people , if there was only one person we would n't need so many erm , if there was only one pizza , right , |