Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want now just to summarise and er some of these the features I 'm going to point out I 've I 've already stated so you may may just want to sit back and just take this in . |
| 2 | I came down here to try and find him . |
| 3 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
| 4 | Yes , she said but er when I went down there to check after you 'd gone , she said erm yours was erm the driest of them sort of thing . |
| 5 | I had nowhere else to go and now I was being carried along — that ship bound for wrecking . |
| 6 | I had not only to Testify as to how , where and when the Lord Jesus had entered my heart but also give the punters a detailed account of the innermost secrets of my heart . |
| 7 | But I had now finally to conclude that the love and the joy and the laughter that was Leslie had vanished for ever . |
| 8 | But on my way through the old garden I had a strange feeling that something was wrong , and I ran back upstairs to check that Miss Havisham was all right . |
| 9 | The insight that we are what we keep secret about ourselves works out here to mean that we are our guilty secrets . |
| 10 | To commemorate these key events in world history , Saga is looking into organising various reunions and commemorative tours , gathering together those who fought so gallantly to revisit and remember those events of nearly 50 years ago . |
| 11 | An illustrative case may be found in the work and practical impact of William Morris , who sought not only to recognize but also to ameliorate the social and aesthetic impact of the machine , partly under the influence of socialist ideas . |
| 12 | Fabia had been in her room for a good half-hour before she cooled down sufficiently to realise that maybe her reaction to Lubor 's hauling her into his arms had been a little — fierce — perhaps . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought you came round here to ask if I 'd seen anything suspicious last night , not grill me about my sex life . ’ |
| 14 | But I think you know how far to go because there are certain barriers . ’ |
| 15 | She looked round swiftly to check whether the others had seen him but Conrad was pouring wine and chattering , Philippa was settling herself into the crimson beanbag , Larry was moving around in the kitchen , John was sipping his drink and testing out her rocking-chair and the lad with the twisted arm was hovering , uncomfortably . |
| 16 | Lady Eleanor took me into her confidence and told me how every day , late in the evening , she went down there to see if another letter had been left . ’ |
| 17 | You had much less to do than anything else . |
| 18 | She had refused to sign the treaty recognizing Elizabeth as legitimate Queen of England , still considering her far from legitimate ; yet , once returned to Scotland , she compromised far enough to say that she would accept Elizabeth 's tenure during her lifetime on the understanding that her own eventual right to the succession was acknowledged . |
| 19 | Note that world execute access is needed to the Process Directory itself ; you need therefore also to check that the entire VMS pathname above the Process Directory also has world execute access at every level . |
| 20 | We went back upstairs to find that all the contents of our lockers had been thrown out over the floors , mixed up , trampled on , and that the lockers themselves had been hurled around the room , across the beds , which had been stripped , and out of the doors . |
| 21 | One night along came Doctor Strangelove , so we went out early to eat before the film started , in a taverna near the cinema . |
| 22 | We learn not only to give and receive love , but to become Love . |
| 23 | " They came round again to see if they could find any more clues , " Sara said , " but so far a blank ; and also , I don think anything was stolen , thanks to you . |
| 24 | This is proved by a letter from one Mr. Wildhagen to Sir William le Fleming and dated the 19 October 1721 : " hellip ; your honr know it is impossible for the men to work att your Fells of Conistone in the winter season for long as their houses are unbuilt , they haveing so far to come and go to thir lodgings … |
| 25 | ‘ I 've seen him play often enough to know that he will do a good job for us . ’ |
| 26 | They had nowhere else to go because this is closed and as they 've said you ca n't pay the mortgage on a single engine two seater aeroplane and you ca n't get rid of , to sell one of those things , there business in liquidation . |
| 27 | Their subordination to adults in general is minimized by what might almost be called an avoidance of them : from the age of five or six , they return home only to eat and sleep , and spend the rest of their time in unsupervised gangs . |
| 28 | The sixteenth-century merchant who was so proud of his oriel windows would be astonished if he came back today to find that behind them management was managing and typists typing . |
| 29 | We need to admit that for many older churches it takes much longer to change and also that a more traditional style can be helpful to many in finding Christ personally and following him radically . |
| 30 | Several times he swung round suddenly to see if people were turning to stare at him from behind . |