Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just I wanted to bring that out because I do feel that twenty nine percent is , is too high . |
| 2 | I though we 'd specified that |
| 3 | That goes underneath the lip , I though I 'd done that . |
| 4 | anyway dad I well you started fixing this did n't you , on Christmas day ? |
| 5 | Nobody else I met had any big reservations . |
| 6 | It was easy enough to rationalise , to calmly explain to herself why he had done that , but her senses went their own way , remembering not the insult but the strength of his arms , the tang of his skin , the instinctive feeling that his lips had wanted to soften and soothe her . |
| 7 | She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this . |
| 8 | ‘ Although I tended not to write about her once we got to know each other , she has never asked me not to publish anything . |
| 9 | As I struggled to follow her directions my natural curiosity overcame me and I asked her how she came to have all that wool and all those knitted garments which were obviously not for her . |
| 10 | He did not tell her how he had performed this miracle , nor did she ask . |
| 11 | ‘ He said the surgeons asked him how he learnt to do such a good job and he said it was in the army . ’ |
| 12 | He 'd danced here on the same legs that now lay dead beneath him , while Sartori had told him how he planned to take this wretched Dominion , and build in its midst a city that would shame Babylon ; danced for sheer exuberance , knowing his Maestro was a great man , and had it in his power to change the world . |
| 13 | She did n't ask him why he had chosen such an expensive place , although she privately resolved to have the cheapest items on the menu . |
| 14 | She bent over to show me how they tried to eat this dust . |
| 15 | The mysterious Fox — I was more certain than ever that he was Special Branch now — that wretched young woman lying there in the mortuary , and I remembered my unease when she 'd told me how she had returned that file at the Records Office . |
| 16 | Obviously , if they wanted to put a lurid picture on the cover , or a picture of a cock , we would ask them why they wanted to do such a thing , ’ says Marshall . |
| 17 | And there was a question in her voice ; it was asking me why I 'd asked such a thing . |
| 18 | And now , suppose you tell me why you wanted to know all this ? ’ |
| 19 | To allow time to sort myself out we decided to sack this fish in the deep margin under some cover while I set up the camera equipment and finished a somewhat cold coffee . |
| 20 | I want you to put across what you 're gon na do and and ask a question and then tell us why you chose to go that route . |