Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only meant to make it welcoming and nice . |
| 2 | I only wanted to tell you first so you could save yourself this sort of scene in front of them . |
| 3 | ‘ I just happened to discover it last spring , when I was trying to find out more about the d'Urbervilles and noticed your name in the village . ’ |
| 4 | " I just wanted to offer you any help if I can . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I hardly liked to ask him that ! ’ |
| 6 | If I really wanted to make it all ‘ organic ’ I 'd take out a section of , like , six guitarists , who could all double up on parts . |
| 7 | I immediately started giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and heart massage . |
| 8 | I even had to loan him some more to get out of Nicaragua . |
| 9 | ‘ I ne'er liked telling it that way , like a fairy tale ; but he 's allus been that strong-willed … ’ |
| 10 | You just needed to get it all out of your system . |
| 11 | She knew what she wanted to learn and she knew where it was ; she just had to shovel it all into her head . |
| 12 | ‘ You always did believe it possible to cure other people 's unhappiness , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Though she clearly had made him angry , Constance knew that her decision had been right . |
| 14 | She also agreed to tell him each evening about the sort of day she had had while he was at work . |
| 15 | Those two were going to give her the creeps if she really had to take them all the way to Titan . |
| 16 | So , expecting to be whisked off to some faraway hot spot for a mild spell of brainwashing , we duly prepared to bring you next week 's Unigram from under the shade of a palm tree on a secluded sandy beach — or at least somewhere nicer than four storeys above the Charing Cross Road in rainy central London . |
| 17 | I mean we 're not allowed as many holidays as , as most of them , but then again it was starting up so we just had to take it that way . |
| 18 | But Mick and I never questioned ourselves ; we just tried to keep it all on the road . ’ |
| 19 | We also had to make it plain that the present was for Mr Eliot , though we knew perfectly well that he would share it with John Hayward . |
| 20 | Then I 'd wonder why people kept telling me not to take it and conclude that they just wanted to keep it all for themselves . |
| 21 | Our customers were mostly quiet , farming people ; the captain frightened them and they soon learned to leave him alone . |
| 22 | They always seemed to find him attractive , and were prepared to make excuses for his more glaring defects . ’ |
| 23 | Erm the er desire that I twelve conveys to encourage district councils to make special provision in their you know to emphasize high density employment in their city centres is understood , no quarrel with that , but if you ca n't , if you feel unable er at county level to be absolutely explicit , that a district would be free if it so chose , it might not choose to do so , if it so chose to make I twelve decisions that did n't come out of its I five , er they would n't have to come out of its I five allocations , unless you can be clear that they 're free to do that , erm it suggests to me sir that may be it 's I twelve that 's that 's getting in the way , erm and w that might well be something we can do without . |
| 24 | He only wanted to give you eight pounds a performance , but I pushed him up . ’ |
| 25 | He came back , and when he found the place locked up again , he got a scare , or he just decided to play it safe , and made off . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Julius will take one look at you and wonder why he ever bothered to kiss you last night . ’ |
| 27 | he walks past there , if he really wanted to bust us that bad he 'd probably just come up and say right |
| 28 | and so he frequently tried conducting me that way . |
| 29 | I mean , I know Gerald went first , and I know he 's been in the business a long while , but he actually managed to say it all in about three sentences . |