Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were so badly treated they had to be humanly destroyed . |
| 2 | Because it was the last one left and we did n't want to get another bearded collie because it would when our old bearded collie eventually goes we did n't want it to remind us too much so we said we 'd go completely different . |
| 3 | The child , possessed by wonder and nameless hauntings , tried to join together the heavings and creakings and groans and gasps and little cries he had heard as he lay on the floor , his mother 's disturbed concentration now , his father 's stillness as if felled , and the sticky warmth in which he lay between them , something more than the sweat that was there before , a substance he divined as elemental , mysterious , newly decanted , that touched his flesh and his senses with profound , unattainable meaning . |
| 4 | ‘ Val would presumably prefer you did n't get arrested . ’ |
| 5 | Sometime during the night , I was woken by my cold feet , a warm weight on my chest and the loudest purr I had ever heard . |
| 6 | Ms Wendy Mountford was living in a house belonging to Mr Roger Street , under a written agreement headed " Licence " , in which she expressly agreed she had no Rent Act protection . |
| 7 | Feminists were effectively articulating what had been implicit in much of moral purity — an opposition to the idea that the male sexual urge was uncontrollable , and that frequent intercourse was necessary for men 's health . |
| 8 | Before independence , Zimbabwe competed for and successfully gathered what had been Zambia 's crown of regional leadership against South AFrica . |
| 9 | Then , when I remarked it was strange that when a person was in trouble , one forgot at once any little grudge one had against them , so that bearing grudges must be only skin-deep , my friend disagreed : she thought the change of heart was because one was willing to be magnanimous when at advantage , having the upper hand . |
| 10 | The Judicature Acts of 1873–75 created a single Supreme Court of Judicature , comprising courts of both law and equity and thereby fusing what had previously been two separate systems . |
| 11 | To pass the heaving multitudes on the track , I raced up like a fell runner , unhappily only to find each time I successfully overtook what looked like a queue for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that there were further extensive crocodiles of people ahead . |
| 12 | Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd rather know I came fourth and ninth . ’ |
| 14 | When this body , which was composed of an independent chairman and two representatives from both sides , eventually reported it suggested that there should be no change in conditions and wages in the industry . |
| 15 | But he put a hand on my shoulder and said , in that philosophical , gravelly voice he had , ‘ All we have to believe in is our children . |
| 16 | ‘ Railways still in a mess after the air raids — they were so delayed they missed the last ferry connection . |
| 17 | Halfway round they met Theodora walking with her uncle in the direction of the members enclosure . |
| 18 | He could not know she had been on the beach long enough to see what had happened . |
| 19 | But my great joy is that my parents both lived long enough to see me established on television . |
| 20 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 21 | Fred apparently thinks we initiated this policy , and resents the fact that he will no longer be able to produce a certain number of high-quality meals . |
| 22 | The first was over the board 's decision to close the senior staff dining-room and require staff to eat in the staff canteen : Fred apparently thinks you initiated this policy , and resents the fact that he will no longer be able to produce a limited number of high-quality meals and thus ingratiate himself with the senior staff . |
| 23 | This poses no problem for BR 's manpower cuts : BR merely offers someone made redundant in London a job in Glasgow , and waits for him to say ‘ no ’ . |
| 24 | Mike suddenly realized what had happened . |
| 25 | She suddenly realized she did n't know what she had meant . |
| 26 | A heavy silence filled the air and Newman suddenly realized he had heard no birds sing since they entered the area . |
| 27 | I , I I went to as we came down , suddenly realized you 'd got somebody there you were obviously deep in conference so er |
| 28 | I suddenly realized I had made a serious mistake . |
| 29 | I 'd been teaching in Preston it must have been three years then , and when I read that book I suddenly realized I knew nothing about Lancashire at all — not the real Lancashire . |
| 30 | He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand . |