Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [pron] " 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 | Peter was rather doted on in his childhood — with the sort of results you see now . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Such was the slowness and enclosedness of all her movements that the girls instinctively looked up from their school books to follow her closely . |
| 6 | He is now wholly caught up in his own sufferings , in a new dichotomy , an agonizing split within himself : Although he rejects conscience as ‘ but a word that cowards use , /Devised at first to keep the strong in awe ’ ( 309f. ) , the duality between truth and lies proves too great for Richard to sustain . |
| 7 | I wanted to be accepted by those around me , and so joined in with their stories of soldiering , sex and drinking prowess . |
| 8 | Feeling the fragile shell of the golden ball — more delicate , even , than an egg — he was suddenly plunged back into his dream . |
| 9 | Carey was often discouraged and frustrated but stubbornly pressed on with his translation work , realising its vital importance in the foundation of any missionary venture . |
| 10 | Kandinskaya stared hard at her and said , ‘ The first one was apparently plucked out of its route between Mars and Andronicus and whisked away to a place in the asteroid belt some seventy-nine degrees away from here . |
| 11 | HP appears to have pretty much given up on its own object-oriented New Wave environment for Unix . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I think you 'd better come up to my room , ’ she mimicked again . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you 'd better come up to my office and we 'll talk things over . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Better come along with me to Father Barnes . ’ |
| 16 | Except that I was all caught up in it , the romance and everything and the sunshine . |
| 17 | He was like a goldfish , suddenly tipped out of its bowl into a pond , conditioned to continue swimming in circles . |
| 18 | She was reassured when he suddenly looked down at her and winked appreciatively . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | How clearly it had all come back to her — even the piping treble of her own childish voice . |
| 21 | 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 ? ’ |
| 22 | But at the moment I 'm so caught up with our construction problems I do n't see myself having the time for months ahead . |
| 23 | Often , too , husband and wife have become so caught up in their work , their children or their respective outside interests that they devote less time to each other . |
| 24 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 25 | That seems to me to be a very moving description of somebody who is preaching to people , not from any sense of superiority , but rather from a sense of human concern and caring about the people that she is addressing , and this makes the way in which George Eliot writes about her very different from the way in which other methodist preachers have been described either as ranters , erm or as people who are so caught up in what they are saying themselves that the fail to make any pay any attention to the people that they are addressing . |
| 26 | She had been so caught up in her memories that she had n't heard him approaching . |
| 27 | She 'd been so caught up in her thoughts that the voice near her side came as a shock , but even as she turned she realised the words had n't been aimed at her . |
| 28 | She was so caught up in her own feelings that she failed to detect the danger in the question . |
| 29 | He had been so caught up in his thoughts he not heard the T'ang enter . |
| 30 | I was so caught up in my plurals or situations in hardship that I did n't notice that the subject in more senses than one is a singular lack , and the verb should be is and not are , therefore I must ask the indulgence of the general assembly to change the verb . |