Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I had to pick it all up . |
| 2 | Thumbed through some papers that they have got , in front of the shop , and found one set of erm , papers from nineteen thirty-six concerned the French National Anthem , and I thought that was a second amazing coincidence , er , and so I had to buy myself that that set of papers for about a pound . |
| 3 | Only Frankie and Liza were in so I decided to tell them both what had happened . |
| 4 | Oh dear , if only you 'd explained it all to me last night ! ’ she said accusingly to Fran . |
| 5 | She was there because you had not kept your appointment with her and so she had to make her own way home in the dark . ’ |
| 6 | So you had to buy your own stuff then ? |
| 7 | By three o'clock she had asked her several times if there was anything she wanted , brought her biscuits and tea and watched the clock for an hour . |
| 8 | ‘ Even so they had to send her half round the world . |
| 9 | So they got paid their own rate . |
| 10 | Both of them were very good friends , and since their respective demises had come together they decided to start their own small company , specialising in the product they knew best — traditional , woven , good quality , Axminster carpets . |
| 11 | Apparently he had become nothing more than this , forage for commonplace family small talk . |
| 12 | Perhaps he had given him some idea of when he would be home . |
| 13 | So he had answered his own son , that time when Yuan had come to him with his dream — that awful nightmare he had had of the great mountain of bones filling the plain where the City had been . |
| 14 | So he had to make his own product . ’ |
| 15 | So he 'd had it all the time . |
| 16 | If Benjamin had given her nothing else in their life together he had given her this child , and for that Sarah would forgive him anything . |
| 17 | It was just I wanted to see what that was |
| 18 | Somehow she had imagined them both greeting Peter together , wrapped in each other 's arms , confirming what Peter had already imagined when he 'd rung her the other morning . |
| 19 | Nevertheless she managed to eat it all up . |
| 20 | One day soon she intended to pay it all back , with interest . |
| 21 | Like I had to give her some top priorities yesterday as she was n't going to be about . |
| 22 | Many had come to look upon their children as vehicles of social emulation ; hence they began to project their own social attitudes as the moral imperatives of childhood . |
| 23 | now I did ask you this before and still puzzling me , where , where does this fit in to article eighty five ? |
| 24 | Simultaneously he proceeded to reinforce his own direct links with his electors by undertaking tours of the provinces and by publicly associating himself with progressive measures . |
| 25 | Well they had to get their own machines out an there 's one old boy had a stitcher , a be he looked ninety , he probably was n't , and er he was chu , it was just after lunch and he was chewing apple and old Jo , I was working with so you know , Jim someone 's I said look at the silly old B , I said ! |
| 26 | Well they wanted to know who this old boy is . |
| 27 | Here they got put it all out there . |
| 28 | At the Harris , Harris and Overdene Christmas party three years ago he had made what some considered to be the funniest impromptu speech anyone had ever heard inside the office . |
| 29 | Yes , maybe I did have them all , or a good number of them anyway . |
| 30 | By then I had started my own Summer School at Wroxeter in 1955 and was also busy elsewhere . |