Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only I realised it too late . ’ |
| 2 | Although I am down , I still have my pride and dignity and so I thought it only right that I should remove all the silverware I had brought to the club from the trophy cabinet : my cycling proficiency medal , the Mitchley Majorettes runners-up trophy I nicked from their carnival float , my Winston Churchill commemorative coin and the photograph of Michel Platini and myself talking football outside Broadcasting House whilst both waiting to secure Bruce Forsyth 's autograph . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's going to do some errands for me so I thought it only fair to give him a bit of food . ‘ |
| 4 | ‘ The music company wanted new product fast before the headster time ended so I dashed it off one afternoon after I 'd dropped some A. Goodness , some of the interpretations people came up with ! |
| 5 | So she gave him more liquid paraffin did she ? |
| 6 | So we got it up that way . |
| 7 | Perhaps it made me too outspoken . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps he considered it more important to warn you against venery than venality . ’ |
| 9 | Courier , who took an undistinguished 2-5 Davis Cup record into the match , explained his past failures by saying perhaps he wanted it too much when playing for his country . |
| 10 | So he told her how marvellous it was , and how misunderstood this wretched Frenchman was , and she bought it . |
| 11 | So what maked them so different ? |
| 12 | So what impressed us so much ? |
| 13 | The Collector , for some reason , was attracted to ladies who were overpowered by the fumes of sleep in his presence , but not everybody enjoyed it as much as he did . |
| 14 | You can see how things are with conversation And yesterday I started it off all er lovely , good morning John and he , and he John , John answered |
| 15 | Yesterday we asked you how many varieties there were of Plumrose Delifresh Slicing Rolls ? |
| 16 | Very quickly he found it increasingly painful to breathe . |
| 17 | A few years later I told him how much I loved his way of telling stories . |
| 18 | When I spoke to some of these women alone much later I asked them why Asian women often reacted like this ; their answers were that it was good for a man 's Izzat . |
| 19 | Such ventures , however , left out those who were most disturbed or withdrawn and hence who found it most difficult to work ; these were left to idle their time away on the wards , and it was always a struggle to find sufficient financial investment in equipment and raw materials to establish and maintain occupational ventures . |
| 20 | All he seemed to be able to concentrate on was the small dimple that appeared to the left of Julia 's mouth whenever she smiled her rather lopsided smile . |
| 21 | Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night . |
| 22 | She was not normally of an argumentative disposition , finding it essential to have the last word , but now she felt it distinctly necessary to score points . |
| 23 | So we was talking about things like that and so she she said like selling her car now she told us how much money she made on it . |
| 24 | now he took it very bad like as much as Margaret |
| 25 | Well I asked her how much you owed and she said thirty one ninety five |
| 26 | Well I did it well that 's a bit straight is n't it ? |
| 27 | Well I invited them up this morni They were so excited this morning when I came down . |
| 28 | Well I found it very hard . |
| 29 | Well they had it so long anyway . |
| 30 | Yeah cos she used to get me t , and then she rang me up one day when I was and said dad erm dad ca n't bring me round there cos the car 's not working , can you come and pick me up ? |