Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much she wanted to fling back the covers , light incense and candles , worship this adored body . |
| 2 | I knew him because he had been in Fontanellato for some months , and after wishing him buon giorno and so forth I tried to find out what his duties were and what was likely to happen to the prisoner . |
| 3 | So surely we got to tidy up our own act before we go further forward and as a trade union surely we are to fight unemployment . |
| 4 | But the songs were pushing so hard I had to get out there and do it . ’ |
| 5 | Some got as far as Rhodesia and the high altitude was n't any good so then they had to go on to Cape Town . |
| 6 | So then I had to put in for another grant because he 'd smashed every damn thing . |
| 7 | When , infrequently , he wanted to write in ‘ some simple metre ’ , he did so ; but when more often he wanted to get away from standard metres , he left them behind altogether , no ghost of them lurking behind his arras . |
| 8 | I just wish it was all over , like now I had to last out until the thirty first of March , which I did do . |
| 9 | Just as well you agreed to go quietly when Kenneth suggested it was time you went to bed ; though apparently he and Hamish practically had to carry you upstairs , and the whole way up you were muttering something vile about Lewis being thrown naked into a tub of starving Elephant Leeches . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ At about 3am I had to stay upright , anything else was too painful , and my legs began to feel tired . |
| 11 | Then suddenly he seemed to sag back into his seat , his hand reaching slowly for the pen I was still holding out to him . |
| 12 | The King 's surprise changed slowly to an amused smile , then suddenly he began to laugh loudly . |
| 13 | Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer . |
| 14 | S. H. We were held responsible for property and we had to go round and test every doorway and that would occupy the first time round — say an hour and a half — and then usually you had to go round and test them a second time , just to make sure . |
| 15 | ‘ Then gradually it began to get out of control . |
| 16 | The way he looked at her made her feel that he was attracted to her , yet always he seemed to draw back . |