Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Luckily I 'd had some speed earlier : when I was on blues I could get through anything . |
2 | If only I 'd had more time . |
3 | So I had to have eleven appointments to get my two sales a week . |
4 | And so I began to have erotic daydreams . |
5 | So I started making some calls of my own . |
6 | So I decided to do some investigating of my own . |
7 | So I wanted to get that memory out of the way and I was just happy that I had had a better game ’ . |
8 | ‘ When I took over the club from Connelly I agreed to give old Giuseppe there a job , ’ he explained . |
9 | Three right so perhaps someone had divided this pizza up and all the extra people kept coming in and your mum was saying , Oh no I thought there were going to be three and now there 's six of us . |
10 | If only she 'd paid more attention on the way down here . |
11 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
12 | If only she had shown such dedication as a tennis player . |
13 | Apparently she had had heavy thighs all her life and still can not get used to her new shape . |
14 | Apparently you 'd referred some request to them — for access to MI5 and MI6 files . ’ |
15 | Perhaps she did buy that picture because it is concerned with loneliness , with " the contemplation of time passing without meaning " , " 1 and moved then , momentarily , hesitantly , towards all the other lost travellers . |
16 | Elinor dreamily remembered what it was like to feel that your lover possessed all the wonderful qualities you wanted , before you realized that he did n't possess them , and that perhaps you had forced those qualities on him in the first place . |
17 | LEFT Dawn eating a chick , which when she was in training would be all she had to eat all day . |
18 | ‘ We all left the theatre with smiles — thinking not what an authentic production we 'd seen but how much we 'd enjoyed 18th century theatre ’ EARLY MUSIC NEWS |
19 | The former UN Special Representative for Somalia , Mohamed Sahnoun , who resigned last year , said in August ‘ … if only we had intervened last November … now we are paying the price . ’ |
20 | He says , I feel awful we were making plans that being the week to go out so they had trouble with wagon so we had to spend some time on wagon . |
21 | So we had to make radical changes . |
22 | So we had to get some ways to try and get something down . |
23 | So we decided to test these claims . |
24 | Still , it appeared her advent had summoned a little luck into his life , for suddenly they began to discover plentiful growths of grass potatoes , forest leeks and turtle-berries , a welcome change from the stringy little rabbits and bitter roots they had eaten until then . |
25 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
26 | They live in the past , believing that if only they had had loving parents , or if only little sister had n't been born , or if only they had n't married so-and-so , then everything would be fine . |
27 | Thus we can see how the social policies of Italian Fascism failed to meat its objective of creating a classless society enough they did change one nature of the state and politics . |
28 | So they had to share one wage between three of them ? |
29 | So they had managed some sort of breakfast , and without waking me . |
30 | So they needed to invent negative numbers . |