Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She , Esther and Alix had known one another since their Cambridge days , and often met , but an evening with them necessarily excluded Charles : Esther and Alix did not much care for the world that Charles represented , and his presence inhibited all three of them . |
| 2 | As I rarely watched TV or read newspapers , my knowledge was scanty . |
| 3 | I duly enrolled Sue at another dancing school . |
| 4 | I duly contacted Memory Direct , who told me they could n't supply these modules , but very helpfully gave me Epson 's customer support line number . |
| 5 | These I keenly fought competitions make use of all the excellent sports facilities throughout the Academy : cricket , tennis and clay pigeon shooting in the grounds , golf , swimming in Sandhurst 's own indoor pool , and even rowing on the lakes . |
| 6 | It seemed there was never enough time to catch up , and I badly needed Charlie to return and take the shop off my hands . |
| 7 | I mostly enjoyed art and maths but I did not like P.E . |
| 8 | So I mostly chose Uncle Bill because I thought the world of him , but I was cunning enough to go to Uncle Geordie 's about every fourth week . |
| 9 | DRDOS seems to have drivers only for 286 and upwards machines but I eventually got EMM.SYS which was also to be found locked away in my ROM and got the machine to recognise the expanded memory . |
| 10 | I eventually found Mrs Newton 's road , off an interminable High Street that was crammed with small shops mostly with Asian names over their facades . |
| 11 | ‘ I did it because I was bored , and I rather believed Ireland should be a single country . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And I rather thought Ian was a friend of young Thomas , the Bishop 's son . |
| 13 | I intensely envied DJs . |
| 14 | Sometimes I so hated JTR for putting me in this position . |
| 15 | By day , I merely served Jean-Claude . |
| 16 | I merely told David Knell that I might write more in future . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I basically managed district nurses , health visitors , school and family planning nurses , ’ he said . |
| 18 | On first hearing , I prematurely thought Vin Garbutt had given abortion a rest . |
| 19 | I personally failed biology — but with all my kids , I can hardly claim it held me back … ! |
| 20 | Delmar Menjamim flew his replica Gee Bee R–2 racer , the Eagles Aerobatic Team performed a faultless routine in their trio of Christen Eagles , a scintillating performance was given by Bobby Younkin in his Beech 18 , a routine which included barrel rolls ! , but probably the most unusual of all was Craig Hisking , who flew his much modified Pitts Special , which has been fitted with an undercarriage on the top wing , enabling him to land upside down as well as the right way up . |
| 21 | I only fed Rachel for about three weeks . |
| 22 | I only got Rosie 's help because he put it to you ; of course , it would be in a very nice way , that I was too tired to give him his rights . ’ |
| 23 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 24 | I only saw Robin |
| 25 | Hello , Just how does anyone who 's old enough to remember compare the two I only saw Gary Sprake play twice ( famous so I ca n't really remember how bad he was . |
| 26 | So popular was this usage at one time that I recall examining final school-practice for one college when in observing two full days of drama lessons I only saw games , no drama at all . |
| 27 | I only saw highlights on match of the day , but from what I saw , the play was amazing . |
| 28 | I only saw Stephen a few times before I went back to prison . |
| 29 | The contrary relation will therefore show up in a sentential context that specifies , or at least implies , that a single event is being referred to , such as I only met Mary once , and that was today/yesterday or ( somewhat less convincingly ) It was today/yesterday that I met Mary . |
| 30 | I hope I only said parrot . |