Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year or so later I chanced to meet him and he acknowledged that this was just criticism , but that he had been obliged to insert these names so that his book would look like a truly up-to-date , intouch work of scholarship . |
| 2 | I think I knew in my heart that once again he wanted to do something ‘ useful , in the sense that it 's got to be done ’ . |
| 3 | There was also fear that he was going to punish her in some unpleasant way for Jason 's actions , and other , deeper fears that even now she refused to acknowledge . |
| 4 | We discovered very rapidly that if it was the doctor that had to present the age-well project to the patients that quite often they forgot to do it . |
| 5 | During the first war he 'd he 'd lost a ship and so finally he decided to buy a ship and he bought two little schooners in f in Porthmadog . |
| 6 | But er at that time there was plenty work coming in , erm there was , there was no need for us to be apprehensive , and so therefore we had to convince the management that in the best interests of everybody , having agreed that the scheme would go on across the whole spectrum of the workforce , was to move reasonably , you know , quickly through the various machine departments and introduce with a minimum amount of frustration . |
| 7 | I knew him because he had been in Fontanellato for some months , and after wishing him buon giorno and so forth I tried to find out what his duties were and what was likely to happen to the prisoner . |
| 8 | And only then they seemed to live : |
| 9 | He assumed the name Ho Chi Minh , ‘ the Enlightened ’ , at some time between 1942 and 1943 and soon thereafter he began to acquire fame . |
| 10 | " Rabscuttle did so and soon afterwards he began to moan and thrash about . |
| 11 | However , the outbreak of war again in 1805 forced Gibbs to close in Cadiz , and once more he had to struggle to survive . |
| 12 | Meanwhile he had started weaving his web again ; and once more I flew to meet it . |
| 13 | And even then she managed to land one blow on the side of his head , to get her teeth , albeit briefly and not very deep , into his shoulder , to kick him a time or two although her bare feet fell short , each time , of a vital spot . |
| 14 | And even then she had to pay |
| 15 | And then suddenly he seemed to give way . |
| 16 | S. H. We were held responsible for property and we had to go round and test every doorway and that would occupy the first time round — say an hour and a half — and then usually you had to go round and test them a second time , just to make sure . |
| 17 | ‘ They decided they wanted to be involved and how much they wanted to pay for it . |
| 18 | He encouraged himself with promises that after ten paces he could rest , then demanded of himself that he manage another five and another five until he lost count of how far he 'd come and how far he had to go . |
| 19 | Shivering , she realised the light was beginning to fade , and almost reluctantly she turned to make her way back inside . |
| 20 | My family knew that however long and however hard they worked to scrape a living , they would always be poor . |
| 21 | And however hard she tried to hide her intentions from Nils they were emblazoned around her in the electric blue of panic over the iridium crown of Steel City in the night . |
| 22 | Our takings went up by a few shillings each week and pretty soon we had to expand and move the kitchens upstairs , where Malc 's Mom made our famous home-made pies ' . |
| 23 | Never being lost for words had always been one of Rory 's great talents , but right now it seemed to have deserted her completely , and she was forced to look away from his dark , probing eyes , horribly aware of his apparent ability to see straight through her . |
| 24 | For years I could n't catch the bloom on a child or young girl 's cheeks , but more recently I managed to capture this with one stroke of the knife . |
| 25 | Julia set off towards the Dorsoduro , beginning to feel really ill with a headache pounding behind her left eyebrow , smarting eyes , a rasped throat and a nose that felt as though it were stuffed with hot , wet flannel with a few pins in it , but even so she decided to give her lesson . |
| 26 | It was true that Mrs Maugham 's moral fervour had had slightly more edge in the days before she herself acquired a television set , but even now she managed to retain sufficient cause for indignation , and the quality of her feeling for Mrs Hanney had changed not at all , though her attacks had been somewhat restricted in scope . |
| 27 | But however much they scrubbed to erase the past , the slate could never be entirely cleansed . |
| 28 | But pretty quickly I started to get all this hassle : these guys coming up to me , driving past in cars and stopping , calling out things to me . |
| 29 | When , infrequently , he wanted to write in ‘ some simple metre ’ , he did so ; but when more often he wanted to get away from standard metres , he left them behind altogether , no ghost of them lurking behind his arras . |
| 30 | I do wish you would n't , ’ she said unhappily as once more she tried to match her steps to his . |