Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was very rewarding and I enjoyed doing it very much . |
| 2 | I do n't believe it , paid all that money for a digital said look at the about stuff , at the end of the day they , he is five a side football stuff like that , had I 've been thinking about joining again , but I do n't really know what I 'm gon na do after Christmas now even Karen said she would n't mind joining but I tried , I managed to put her off that idea . |
| 3 | I managed to get it early this year in Athens . ’ |
| 4 | Duncan at L.A.B. dropped off my gear at the shops as he did n't have my address , when I went to get it only half was handed over . |
| 5 | I did tell him how much it was I said sixteen pound sixteen pound for Angela . |
| 6 | ‘ I had to set it up this way . |
| 7 | And often we would lie together in the sun after a bathe , and kiss and caress each other , and it was a dear , familiar pleasure , associated in my mind and body with safety and mutual delight and no demands made ; his hands were wondering and tender , and his face when I opened my eyes to look at it had the extraordinary beauty it used to have when I had given him even this limited sensual happiness . |
| 8 | I was overjoyed that our letters had regained their old intimacy , and I wrote telling him how much I delighted in sharing his thoughts once more . |
| 9 | It was true I wanted to kiss her very much , but I felt that kiss was almost like a coin thrown to a poor common boy , and not worth anything . |
| 10 | But for some people the austerity period which followed brought it even more years of deprivation and hardship than those of the war . |
| 11 | This time his powers of concentration were not helped by the fact that on a hot and humid Sunday afternoon in the Bois de Boulogne he was feeling awful : he had been wasting in order to ride Beaver II at nine stone ten pounds later in the afternoon , and was severely debilitated by a stomach upset which had kept him up all night . |
| 12 | Well you got to give it back some time , may as well get him to do it tomorrow when he 's in . |
| 13 | Later she phoned to tell me how much lighter she felt , as if a burden had somehow been lifted from her shoulders . |
| 14 | Could it have been one of the footpads who tried to ambush me earlier that day ? |
| 15 | ‘ At the time , you remember , you 'd given me very little information to go on . |
| 16 | From me , who 'd loved you almost half a year . |
| 17 | You forgot to tell me how much I owe . ’ |
| 18 | She had aroused him so much that he wanted to take her here and now , on the ground . |
| 19 | But by keeping him secret she had given him too much power . |
| 20 | She had frightened him properly this time . |
| 21 | For the first time in years Harriet was overwhelmed by a wave of homesickness , and not now for New York , but for the haven of her London flat , the bolt-hole she had made her very own . |
| 22 | Your new book was on the table by her chair and she said she had liked it very much — ‘ a good writer , a good interesting writer ’ . |
| 23 | Mitch glared at her as if she had ordered him back all by herself . |
| 24 | It was not the intimate physical contact with her cousin which upset her , but the fact that subconsciously she felt so very guilty because she had enjoyed it so much . |
| 25 | As soon as Fosdyke had taken the pictures , she felt that she had shown him too much of her private life and put out her hand to receive them back . |
| 26 | She had had only one lover so far , a very young man who had taught her little more than caution . |
| 27 | At first the information lack had been due to an instinctive veering away from the man who had caused her so much hurt and distress , but now it was more a matter of her rarely spending money on a paper and not having a television . |
| 28 | Our Spanish friend Juan , who had given us so much time , had to work next day , so we needed a replacement to help tackle the bureaucratic process of preparing the body for despatch to Britain . |
| 29 | He felt that his experience in the film Hello , Dolly ! had given him the confidence to do Billy , and he remained grateful to Gene Kelly , who had helped him so much during the picture 's making . |
| 30 | If I was talking to you on the street and you had asked me where such-and-such a street was , that was all right . |