Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suddenly realized why he smoked so much and felt queasy all over again . |
| 2 | It is no good you being a couch potato and having a Dobermann , only to wonder why it seems so frustrated with its existence . |
| 3 | ‘ We were so fed up we did n't even push the beds together for our wedding night . |
| 4 | We can only surmise how they got there . |
| 5 | It , from the requirements of the standard it does only imply where you have n't got a covering letter or anything like that with it . |
| 6 | ‘ I was only asking why you waste so much time stealing stuff you ca n't eat and then waste more time stealing dogs when you could steal and eat at the same time , as it were . ’ |
| 7 | You can only tell when you zoom out and can take it all in . |
| 8 | He could not really account for what he did , moving from duty to duty like a sleep walker , so buoyed up he did n't even bother to study the stars that night , in spite of the sky being cloud free . |
| 9 | I was so taken aback I did n't say anything . ’ |
| 10 | and his wife , it was her second marriage , her first one had been to the doctor and he had actually examined paedophilia backed off , basically said well she did n't , she could n't get a conviction but it was quite clear that he had the motive and he 'd had the opportunity because Connie died from the fire which Harvey Jones had set cos he found out |
| 11 | God only knows why she did n't wait until it was ready , rather than rely on a starsuit . ’ |
| 12 | Not for the money just to be , just to see how they go on |
| 13 | We 'll soon know when they come here . |
| 14 | To make sure that he has n't just come home I telephoned twice this afternoon , and again just before I left to come here . |
| 15 | It is so similar to the language that he used on previous timetable motions that I do not know why he does not take a tape and mime to it . |
| 16 | We certainly do not know where he stands today . |
| 17 | Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself . |
| 18 | I think she honestly did not know how she played so well . |
| 19 | We simply do not know how it fits in to the system of sociolinguistic variation and stratification in the city as a whole . |
| 20 | If it 's not written down I do n't know when they 've had or what they 've had , you 'll have to write it down and put a date on it . |
| 21 | I know I 'm at the station , cos that 's obvious , it 's just I ca n't exactly remember how I got here . |
| 22 | But can I just look where they go in . |
| 23 | I suspect that the Labour party simply did not understand when it drew up its policy that everyone would pay more national insurance contributions in a single week if they earned above one fifty second of statutory UEL . |
| 24 | I am a fan and I can not understand why he does n't sell in the David Lodge league , for he well worth recommending . |
| 25 | ‘ As a nurse , I could not understand why she did not directly approach the hospitals concerned , for at that time I had little doubt that she would have received informed , prompt , honest replies . ’ |
| 26 | I could not understand how it had all happened so quickly . |
| 27 | I was thinking of going to Austria about the end of September October but , if Alexander 's not going abroad I do n't know , I shall have to change me mind probably , I 'll have to have a word with Sue . |
| 28 | I still do not see why they do n't . |
| 29 | But it is true , she told herself , alone in the dining room , I can not remember why I went out into the hall but there was a reason . |
| 30 | Well I 'll just see how it goes then . |