Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only discovered that late as well when I became friends with John at college . |
| 2 | I said ooh cos I said when I come here we 're always so busy I said I only get as far as er er the kitchen do n't I ? |
| 3 | Oxford 's nothing to do with it , tho — I only ended up here cos I failed my A levels ( long story ) . |
| 4 | I left early before the nuns were awake but I only got as far as Glasgow before I lost my way . ’ |
| 5 | I just hung grimly on because the salary was magnificent . |
| 6 | I just screamed as loudly as I could — more from the shock than anything else , and I did n't stop crying for several hours afterwards . |
| 7 | well it got just eased of a little bit and I thought oh well I 'd make it , so I hopped up to get me erm pension erm and I just got down here when it started again and I came around the front from there and I came around the front I was soaking |
| 8 | Will and I still went around together when we could . |
| 9 | it comes to a point sometimes , I mean I even noticed then like when they 're wearing all your clothes right ? |
| 10 | ‘ I actually won quite easily when I expected that I 'd still have a lot to learn , ’ he explains . |
| 11 | I never got as far as the wedding , Mum , but it was unlucky , was n't it ? ’ |
| 12 | I never got as far as his nose . |
| 13 | I never got as far as the meat inspector , actually … just saw one of the slaughtermen " |
| 14 | I never went no further than you are now , all I come for was my little secateurs , and they were on the shelf here inside the door . |
| 15 | My father wished me to try for a history scholarship and I occasionally read as hard as it was possible to do without any interest in history beyond the attempt to memorize facts … . |
| 16 | Many of them just lie there helplessly until somebody manhandles them over the side of the boat . |
| 17 | I heard hoof beats and opened one eye to see my attackers run back into the trees , two of them not moving as quickly as they would want . |
| 18 | She ought to unpack , but she only got as far as getting out Ricky 's photograph in its blue silk frame and putting it beside the bed . |
| 19 | But when he said , we thought it would be a good idea , we took a Ali erm , erm mum took Alex over to Craigmiller Park , and we thought it would be a good idea if she just stayed there overnight because if she wa if she 's escaped it by , you know , tomorrow then she should really you know , be safe and , and |
| 20 | It 's she never attempted to go she just wandered all round till she met me |
| 21 | She nearly ran up again when the milling throngs of people in the hallway below turned as if drilled by some invisible sergeant and stared at her . |
| 22 | You probably do n't now as it is . |
| 23 | Will you please get up now before I , there 's trouble ! |
| 24 | She even goes so far as to say her grandmother does the warm-up exercises , using tins of soup instead of weights , though her husband Richard Gere sticks to Tai Chi and riding his bike . |
| 25 | Can we not do more even than we 're doing at the moment to restore to the centre of the life of the church the glorious concept of a team of pastoral care and a high command of power strategy in which dominance by ministers will be reduced to the minimum in order that together we may be ready to let the lifeblood of Christ flow through us in such a way that we will be better able to welcome the twenty first century in his name . |
| 26 | ‘ We like to play the ball around like the Continentals , but we still work as hard as any team in England . ’ |
| 27 | We now see more clearly than Huey did that they are not differences which improved technology will remove . |
| 28 | erm we really got as far as the neutrons and the protons . |
| 29 | ‘ We even went so far as to put together a group and do some touring ; we did a club tour of the States and a mini-tour in Japan , too . |
| 30 | We even sailed as far as Singapore . |