Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd already told you all you needed to know ! ’ |
| 2 | I 'm honest , I 'd better tell you that . |
| 3 | They 're still a bit wobbly , you know , and when the bombing got rough I thought I 'd better find us all somewhere to go . |
| 4 | I 'd better get you some help . ’ |
| 5 | I can ha , you know I do n't know , if I go over there now to and I said please show me this no , I 'm not ! |
| 6 | Oh dear , I said well give it some ! |
| 7 | Spellbound , I drove upwards into the bright splendour , staring through the windscreen as though I had never seen it all before ; the bronze of the dead bracken spilling down the grassy Banks of the hills , the dark smudges of trees , the grey farmhouses and the endless pattern of wails creeping to the heather above . |
| 8 | I had never done him any harm , yet I seemed to be the object of a deliberate campaign . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose you 'd better tell me all about it . |
| 10 | You 'd better tell me all about your dad , so I can keep my end up . ’ |
| 11 | Right , well you 'd better put them all |
| 12 | You 'd better ask me some questions I think . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'd better buy it some flowers . |
| 14 | ‘ But Ellen , ’ said Bernard , ‘ if you 'd only stuck it another month , you 'd have got your degree and we could have begun to live quite comfortably . ’ |
| 15 | Her lips clamped together and she stared at him in horror , unable to believe she 'd really asked him such a question . |
| 16 | Feeling a twinge of guilt because she 'd inadvertently brought it all up when all they wanted was for it to remain buried , and pushing aside for the moment the whys and wherefores of her grandfather 's involvement , Ellie apologised quietly , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 17 | She had deliberately given him that impression simply because she had n't wanted to look lonely and pathetic in his eyes . |
| 18 | the first time she had ever asked him that question . |
| 19 | She had hardly seen him all day . |
| 20 | He turned his ravaged face on her , and the ravage was grief , and she had never loved him more , doubt her though he might . |
| 21 | She had never given him any reason to feel suspicious , and she certainly never encouraged any impropriety with the carmen and dockers who came regularly into the dining rooms . |
| 22 | The Judge said that he had stolen Lady Margaret 's ring , and that she had only bought it that day and the ring was a very expensive diamond . |
| 23 | Dutifully she and Luke followed Anna and Sam through the house ; they discovered that they had both visited it several times in the past . |
| 24 | He did n't have to scream at people to get his way ; he just told them and he knew that they knew they had better do it that way or there was gon na be trouble ! ’ |
| 25 | He 'd always called her that . |
| 26 | And he worked hard to give them that chance . ’ |
| 27 | She mopped the liquid up from the floor with a clean towel , though she knew it meant presently lugging it all the way down to the launderette . |
| 28 | It had further taught them that bomb casualties in Protestant districts frequently included a substantial proportion of Roman Catholics . |
| 29 | He was still doing it over an hour later , frantically trying to remember everything and wishing he had somewhere to write it all down , when there was a sound of feet running up the stairs . |
| 30 | He had actually hit her this time , she told herself dazedly . |