Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Does it matter whether he really died in a burning building or whether he only thinks he did ? |
| 32 | ‘ I can only think she decided she could not marry Fabien after all , but could not bear to tell him so either . |
| 33 | So round I went to Daddy 's flat . ’ |
| 34 | Did her excitement at the way the evidence fitted together mean she wanted it to be true ? |
| 35 | I suddenly realised they did n't like each other ; that they were rivals . |
| 36 | As they drove along Three Springs Road , Juliet suddenly realised they did n't know Miss Rose 's address ! |
| 37 | 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 |
| 38 | She suddenly realised she had passed from the survival phase to a phase where she could see that The Body Shop had become a retailing institution that was going from strength to strength . |
| 39 | His gaze had already returned to Jessamy , and she suddenly realised she did n't want to be left alone with Julius . |
| 40 | Having , with spectacular lack of vision , left the door open to the Japanese in the early BMC-British Leyland doldrum management days , Land Rover 's lethargic parent suddenly realised it had missed the boat in a rapidly expanding market sector , and did something about it . |
| 41 | But now she suddenly realised it fitted him like a glove . |
| 42 | I looked down and suddenly realised I had forgotten to bring my own umbrella to work that morning . |
| 43 | we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons |
| 44 | He suddenly realised he had newer thought of the possible need to tell lies about why he was there . |
| 45 | He breathed a sigh or relief when Mrs Long announced he had polled 31 . |
| 46 | Though Thomas was greatly revered he had never been well off , and now that he had retired from government advisory jobs he earned nothing much except by writing . |
| 47 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 48 | He told us of families who had built ramshackle premises on unused land only to see them bulldozed . |
| 49 | But it was certainly not one-way traffic in front of an absorbed 19,528 crowd although Dean Saunders had the ball in the net for Villa as early as the tenth minute only to see it wiped out for offside . |
| 50 | ‘ Do you think I 've lost a fortune only to see it salted away in the same nip-cheese fashion as before ? |
| 51 | Karr went still , suddenly realising what had happened . |
| 52 | She moved to the table , put her keys down , suddenly realising she had been clutching them tightly . |
| 53 | He 's going to be ages , thought Juliet desperately , suddenly realising she 'd been standing with her hands clenched together , and her eyes screwed tightly as if to hear better . |
| 54 | Its owner , Toni Hobbs only realised what had happened when she saw its picture on Central News . |
| 55 | While ( 104 ) does seem to imply something close to " feel " , in the other three cases know merely evokes what allowed the " knowers " in question to identify the things or persons known as stolen , deaf , or clouds . |
| 56 | Some man at the college had arranged it for her … she more or less admitted she 'd worked on him . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ He said something that made the implication that I 'd copied and I was sort of so choked I did n't answer . |
| 58 | Millions of pounds which should be spent on health , education and investment will be diverted merely to restore what had existed until the IRA struck . |
| 59 | The entire area was so altered it took her several minutes to establish where their cottage had been . |
| 60 | ‘ There 's no need for Connelly to know who turned him over . |