Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | He 's certainly saying I find a pattern here because he 's using it , as his pattern to understand and I only just said at the beginning what the , makes the Jews Jewish , what gave them their national character and their , their ethnic identity . |
3 | I only just stopped in time . |
4 | Furthermore , since I only recently arrived in France from England I am not exactly out of touch with the news from ‘ home ’ . |
5 | I only once went into his garden , a beautifully kept one , even in war-time , when he kindly picked a bunch of tulips for me and showed me some new potatoes he was growing in pots in the greenhouse . |
6 | And I only ever went to the first reunion after graduation . ’ |
7 | ‘ I may not have been the tallest , nor the most athletic — Mick Doyle reckoned I only ever jumped from my shoulders up — but what I did have was the most effective arse in world rugby ’ . |
8 | I only ever spoke to him socially and not very often at that . |
9 | Right , well I I just just looked at one where I was struggling , that 's why I mention it . |
10 | Hmm , well , okay , last night Mickey , you and I just about wrote off Lester Piggott 's career , and er today , well inside the last furlong of er one of his three races I believe today , this is how Rapid Raceline 's course commentator John Penny , saw the closing stages . |
11 | I once specially asked for him to be there and then demanded to know at the rehearsal who was this man sitting with the flutes . |
12 | He was the first man I ever really looked at . |
13 | ‘ But I hardly even spoke to her ! |
14 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
15 | But I probably only used about five guitars in total . |
16 | I practically never looked at the . |
17 | I also deeply sympathized with George because Lennie had practically spoiled his life yet George never seemed to complain . |
18 | Was I now so enmeshed in this world that the role of visitor had changed ? |
19 | I think it it it 's been suggested that er in s in some way that the employment aspect of the new settlement w would in some way prejudice erm regional objectors in in terms of Leeds regardment and I really just wanted to flag up that that I ca n't accept that , given the scale of development that that 's proposed . |
20 | The book ends with a flurry of ‘ I really never expected to be treated in this way by you ’ accusations and counter-accusations . |
21 | The act of conception , staring at a typewriter for much of 1985 in a flat in Notting Hill Gate so depressed me that I immediately thereafter applied for a job as doctor for Amoco , who were then exploring for oil near Morondava . |
22 | I then slowly walked along Fulham Broadway in the complete darkness , as I knew the road past Halford School would be safe with the clergy around . |
23 | Yes erm I had , I then actually went to the police station to see if any further information was to hand , er I spoke again to Inspector erm to ask if there was any further information he could give me . |
24 | I then subsequently asked for an iris to be put into the Dalek so that we could do a close up of the eye irising in and out to get the effect of its eye focussing on you . |
25 | I almost always cooked inside the tent , following the example of the Polar explorers — I figured that the danger was minimal . |
26 | If it was travelling at 20 mph and someone else recklessly drove into it , the aggravated offence would have been committed . |
27 | I no longer cared about seeing the film , though it was to be the last with my great hero Sean Connery . |
28 | I no longer cared about Clive finding us together . |
29 | I no longer cared about anything but the sexual charge passing between us . |
30 | When I reached 24 I no longer wished to be tied to my little and limited taste . |