Post by Volker GringmuthPost by Oliver Cromm"Bother", said the Borg, as they assimilated Pooh.
Ne Frage nebenbei: Ist das gutes Englisch? Ich hätte im
Nebensatz eher eine Verlaufsform erwartet.
| 'Good gracious!' cried Mrs. Bennet, as she stood at a window the
| next morning [...]
|
(Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice".)
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| [...] While I was copying the plain inscription for him at his
| request, I saw him stoop, and gather a tuft of grass from the
| grave, and a little earth.
|
| "For Em'ly," he said, as he put it in his breast. [...]
|
(Charles Dickens, "David Copperfield".)
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| "We must stop to see Gladys' mother, if only for a minute," Enid
| said as they drew up before the fence.
|
(Willa Cather, "One of Ours".)
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| Philip Wakem was a less frequent visitor, but he came
| occasionally in the evening, and it happened that he was there
| when Lucy said, as they sat out on the lawn, near sunset, -
|
| "Now Maggie's tale of visits to aunt Glegg is completed, I mean
| that we shall go out boating every day until she goes. [...]"
|
(George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss".)
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| "I'm sorry you didn't find Ellen - I should have liked to see
| her again," May said as they drove home through the dusk.
|
(Edith Wharton, "The Age of Innocence".)
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| At Mudbury a carriage and a pair of horses received them, with a
| coachman in black. "It's the old drag, Rawdon," Rebecca said, as
| they got in.
|
(William Makepeace Thackeray, "Vanity Fair".)
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| 'Well, at any rate it's a great comfort,' she said as she
| stepped under the trees [...]
|
(Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass".)
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| "You seem so well pleased that I think you can be trusted to
| come back," Mr. Osmond said, as he led his companion to one of
| the angles of the terrace.
|
(Henry James, "The Portrait of a Lady".)
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| "Now we will have to stick to each other, whatever happens we
| will have to do that," Ned Currie said as he left the girl at
| her father's door.
|
(Sherwood Anderson, "Winesburg, Ohio".)
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| "And the worst of it is," he said, as they adjourned for tea at
| half-past four, having deposited the verbs on Mr. Day's table,
| "that all those numerals will be wasted now."
|
(P.G. Wodehouse, "The Politeness of Princes".)
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