Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I saw these skid marks tonight , and I thought well how I did n't realise , until I suddenly realised what had happened that someone |
| 2 | Jane Pargeter walked self-consciously to the kitchen to make herself a cup of tea : she had obviously decided she had drunk enough gin for the afternoon . |
| 3 | And it was as he turned from her , that jewel box in his hand , that he suddenly knew who had taken those jewels , and his anger carried him away from Charity 's pain and her need . |
| 4 | Scarlet 's mother had moved in the Bohemian world of Chelsea in the years immediately post-war and had acquired the air of insouciant , amoral aristocracy combined with a certain self-righteousness arising from the consciousness of being both aesthetically and ( at base ) morally correct which had characterized that society at that time . |
| 5 | I just wish I 'd had more respect for my body when I was younger . |
| 6 | It was only two days ago that she had decided to come and now , as she stood there in the spring sunshine , she could hardly believe she had allowed this to happen . |
| 7 | He did what any timorous man in a panic would do , ran away and hid himself within the community , where he was known and respected , and no one would ever guess he had attempted such a deed . ’ |
| 8 | No one ever knew who had fed this line to Kim . |
| 9 | Unfortunately for the West any move which seemed to strengthen that country created problems with its rival , Egypt . |
| 10 | De Craon shrugged and smiled , secretly wishing he had killed this man and vowing he would , the next time an opportunity presented itself . |
| 11 | Leading the way up to Terry 's room , fervently wishing she 'd left this madhouse when she 'd had the chance , Ellie stood back for Terry to enter first . |
| 12 | ‘ And he also said you wanted to do all that before you were thirty-five . |
| 13 | I really believed he did love this suede . |
| 14 | And would Feargal now believe she had engineered this ? |
| 15 | He often said he 'd had enough of living and was ‘ ready to go ’ was how he put it . |
| 16 | I was rather hoping you 'd forgotten that one . |
| 17 | Please God , she 'd never discover who had done this to her . |
| 18 | But he did miss it ; he thought he had been born homesick ; he certainly thought he had spent most of his life waiting and longing and aching for the Bright Palace where his mother 's people had quarrelled and laughed and made love and war , and where the charming ruthless Wolfkings had woven Ireland 's history . |