Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps ‘ second-joystick option ’ was the wrong phrase to use , but when joysticks were plugged into both ports , one of them most definitely DID N'T work ! |
| 2 | No I 'll put that on it 's easier save that for your Mum put them on here did you say ? |
| 3 | She sent a few dogs to Ireland and , after the war , attempts to track them down only resulted in letters being sent back marked ‘ gone away ’ . |
| 4 | Virtually nothing so far had been published on its birds . |
| 5 | There are several more groups of odd echinoderms in the Lower Palaeozoic rocks — some of them only recently discovered , like the bizarre helicoplacoids , which look like nothing so much as spinning tops ( see p. 84 ) . |
| 6 | Telling the poorer workers that others were producing more , simply led to demoralisation ; they already knew that , and telling them so only made them feel worse . |
| 7 | A burly constable was already standing by the public telephone , and no-one so far had been sufficiently intrepid as to approach him . |
| 8 | Cressid , I love thee in so strained a purity , That the blest gods , as angry with my fancy , More bright in zeal than the devotion which Cold lips blow to their deities , take thee from me . |
| 9 | They saw a great deal of each other , but , because Diana was so much younger and usually just one of a party , no one who saw them together ever suspected she was a girlfriend . |
| 10 | I most scrupulously carried out my promise to her , despite the dishonest if well meant advice of various people who suggested that I should deposit her letters in a great library . |
| 11 | But Lord Aldington insisted : ‘ I most definitely saw him on May 25 and I remember having dinner with him on two successive nights around this time . |
| 12 | But when I saw you that first time in the garden , I most certainly wanted you , My Cassie . |
| 13 | ‘ I most certainly did not knock it over myself ! ’ roared the Trunchbull . |
| 14 | ‘ I most certainly did not , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ I most certainly did not ! ’ |
| 16 | I rather obviously avoided , so far as I could , offering even the most tentative diagnosis of the defect in the tripartite analysis which Gettier exposed . |
| 17 | I rather foolishly ran round the Staffordshire moors on Saturday with the perhaps to be disbanded 5th Battalion Light Infantry from Shrewsbury and caught a heavy cold . |
| 18 | Without any apparent break in the text and without any change of tone in my voice I got out some of the things I so badly needed to tell you . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was selfish of me , I so badly wanted to put a live baby into Celia 's arms — ’ Her mouth quivered slightly and she turned away . |
| 20 | Not listening was always one of my faults and one of the reasons I so frequently found myself isolated in misunderstanding : like a careless rider , cut off from the company , alone and benighted for failing to pay attention to the prevailing agreements as to intention and direction . |
| 21 | The vacillating vamp , as I so aptly said : do I phone her ? |
| 22 | And I so desperately wanted children . |
| 23 | ‘ But when I see those stones here , and ponder — as I was doing when I so nearly precipitated myself upon you — ’ he laughed , gently , at his own folly and again rapiered a look to Miss D'Arcy who , in control now , returned to him the dreamy interest of the truly hooked — ‘ it was Egypt I thought on . |
| 24 | I so much enjoyed coming to see your mother . |
| 25 | I so much wanted her to ask that I would n't tell her . |
| 26 | That she saw herself not as I so much wanted , as my angel of forgiveness , but as my angel of salvation . |
| 27 | It often works , though once in London when I so far forgot myself as to try this ploy , I was rewarded by a grimace of fascinating sarcasm ! |
| 28 | Regarded by everybody in that line as the world 's leading expert — he chaired , or was chairing until I so rudely interrupted him , an international conference in seismology in Rome . |
| 29 | I so dreadfully wanted her to know that , although I am sure it is not really important either way . |
| 30 | Eventually I was able to convince my senior officers that anthropology was one of the social sciences , perhaps only because I somewhat sardonically returned a memo which asked ‘ why , if anthropology is not approved , have I just been allowed to read the subject on a Bramshill Scholarship , on full pay and allowances ? ’ |