Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that |
| 2 | He had to go and they would I think actually sometimes had to lay out the body as well . |
| 3 | Well I got up there started fucking going for it . |
| 4 | I sauntered along attractively named Wine Street , then came to a bridge over the rushing River Garavogue . |
| 5 | The last chit I hired not only got herself — well , you know , with the coachman , but made off with some of my best lace when I turned her away . |
| 6 | I felt far more threatened now . |
| 7 | Ooh I did n't collect mine when I went past either did I ? |
| 8 | I do n't Never heard her speaking very much about games . |
| 9 | So great was the similarity that I dared no longer lay upon my back . |
| 10 | A few readers may remember that I had long ago arranged to spend two days drawing cartoons for children in the Navan shopping centre . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've long ago stopped thinking about that . ’ |
| 12 | May I say how deeply honoured I am to be invited to chair N C V O. I am acutely conscious with a degree of trepidation and indeed humility , that I face a huge challenge in following in Alan 's footsteps . |
| 13 | I can not emphasize too strongly that I have not here attempted to provide a detailed exposition or erect a comprehensive critique of multiculturalist and antiracist assumptions and practices . |
| 14 | The chain of events I sparked off nearly led to my untimely demise . |
| 15 | That uses a theme which Bizet much later cribbed for his L'Arlesienne music . |
| 16 | It is certainly not true of Arab public opinion which has long ago accepted the ‘ linkage ’ that Washington has been at such pains to discount . |
| 17 | In the twentieth century , however , there was a revolt against the dominant paradigms of anthropology , and evolutionary and diffusionary theories were rejected in favour of direct participant observation , in which objects no longer mediated in the relationship between the anthropologist and the informant . |
| 18 | In time , however , these ideas developed into a much more general critique , in which objects not only did not signify use value but were found not to signify anything outside of themselves . |
| 19 | A party that had thrown itself so uncompromisingly into the campaign against Home Rule , and which had long ago accepted the need for " organization " in domestic affairs , could hardly accept for long the leadership by ineffective compromise which was what Asquith offered . |
| 20 | You slipped over a few times but you got up alright did n't you ? |
| 21 | ‘ So he got me a few gigs round the Irish pubs , and I had to learn off some traditional Irish ballads quickly for the sort of audiences you got there certainly did n't want to hear me singing songs by James Taylor or Simon and Garfunkel . |
| 22 | My cousin who lived up there said she used to hear her going down shouting ’ mother , mother . ’ |
| 23 | The barrister who lived here then had painted everything cream . ’ |
| 24 | He says that apparently the ancient Celts who lived around here had no concept of shape . |
| 25 | Those who passed out successfully had as broad a range of social backgrounds as the original list of applicants — certainly more broadly based than the parliamentary party . |
| 26 | After 2 weeks , she reported back there had n't been any improvement but it turned out that she had bought herself some Arg Nit tablets as she did n't like the taste of the alcoholic water the LM was made up in ! |
| 27 | She stopped again then said wryly , ‘ When I saw you and gradually realised that he was attracted to you I naturally became jealous . ’ |
| 28 | She came back home did n't she ? |
| 29 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 30 | She nodded grimly then left the room . |