Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One night along came Doctor Strangelove , so we went out early to eat before the film started , in a taverna near the cinema . |
| 2 | If I had anywhere else to go I would leave this house . |
| 3 | Then , fiercely , ‘ But if I had anywhere else to go , I would . ’ |
| 4 | Now , if you came out here to annoy me then … ’ |
| 5 | From time to time I shall send one or other of them to you with documents to examine , and it would be helpful , I think , if you looked in periodically to study our work in progress . " |
| 6 | If we went high enough to use a ‘ chute we 'd be picked up on radar immediately after taking off . ’ |
| 7 | If until 1832 the working class seen in a Marxist perspective as a proletariat was emergent and potential , if it had yet fully to identify itself , the Reform Bill of that year finally distinguished it from the rest of society . |
| 8 | The sixteenth-century merchant who was so proud of his oriel windows would be astonished if he came back today to find that behind them management was managing and typists typing . |
| 9 | Then they put us in the Fleming Hospital in Newcastle , me and the bairn , because I had nowhere else to go . |
| 10 | How hopeless and ludicrous everything was : the seas of incomprehension , the misunderstandings that could never be cleared up because we seemed not only to speak different languages but to inhabit different countries . |
| 11 | American blacks were always assimilationists because they had nowhere else to go . |
| 12 | Anna was in danger of dying because he had not enough to offer her to replace what she would be losing . |
| 13 | His primary commitment was to effective control ; he chose deterrence because it seemed most obviously to follow from his views on human rationality . |
| 14 | As I wrote to you at the time ( since you refused even then to see me or any of your old friends and supporters ) I accepted the MS as a sacred trust and would do what I could to see that it eventually saw the light of day in the most appropriate form . |
| 15 | I disremember if it was October or November — it was October , 'cos it was before I came up here to join the matriculation class . ’ |
| 16 | Fabia had been in her room for a good half-hour before she cooled down sufficiently to realise that maybe her reaction to Lubor 's hauling her into his arms had been a little — fierce — perhaps . |
| 17 | Before we came down here to clean the caravan . |
| 18 | Erm er I was concerned when my Noble Friend said that he 'd looked up Hallsbury but that it did n't contain the right words , er er I rather wonder whether he looked up so to speak the right version or the last version . |
| 19 | When I went round there to take the saw back she was er you know her little tail |
| 20 | That 's all that Christian offered me when I went up there to lay out that poor young wife of his . |
| 21 | Yes , she said but er when I went down there to check after you 'd gone , she said erm yours was erm the driest of them sort of thing . |
| 22 | I just caught a glimpse of you both through one of the windows , but Lewis had already started to come back inside when I went out there to fetch you back . ’ |
| 23 | As I refused so soon to repeat the horrors of the afternoon , the taxi ride from the Olympik to Nove Mesto ( the New Town ) was a real treat . |
| 24 | As I earned only enough to pay for my childminder my father paid my train fares . |
| 25 | They played well when you got near enough to hear . |
| 26 | Wycliffe said : ‘ And you met Matthew again when you came back here to live ? ’ |
| 27 | Later , brain-fatigue smearing her concentration as she tried yet again to make the balance positive : I 'm not wrong . |
| 28 | Andrew Bergman told me later that when they went out there to make the deal , they felt like the expedition that goes into the jungle to bag King Kong . ’ |
| 29 | His eyes were grey-green , like Finn 's , but had warm brown flecks in them and looked straight and candid ahead , as though they saw too directly to look from side to side . |
| 30 | When he sat down again to finish his kedgeree Aunt Tossie gave him quite a funny look , and burst out laughing . |