Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never did much care for it ’ . |
| 2 | I never did much care for it ’ . |
| 3 | We really need more help from you good men to stand up and be counted ! |
| 4 | This led the group to recall , towards the end of the meeting , how they , too , had got nowhere with work-refusing children while they constantly demanded better work from them ( thus identifying with Mr E as having known failure instead of contrasting their own better results with his , as they had done earlier ) but how they had been able to help them when they had worked on the relationship . |
| 5 | The answer might seem to be that experience tells us that nation states are a key fact of the current world and that they plainly do often behave in a self-interested way . |
| 6 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 7 | Goodness knows , you hear somebody saying sometimes , goodness knows why he should suffer like that , he never did any harm to anyone . |