Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any yet I badly wanted to make some kind of personnel response . |
| 2 | As the weeks went by , I naturally began to enjoy this new-found notoriety . |
| 3 | ‘ When your mother came to live here and asked me to advise her , ’ he said uneasily , ‘ I naturally wanted to know some background . |
| 4 | I only intended to do that first album , because it was a new label and I did n't want to sign to a label that had no track record . |
| 5 | I only wanted to see this one and he said |
| 6 | ( 'Sorry I 'm late — I just had to confirm some bookings on our European tour . |
| 7 | I just had to say that is beautiful and I wish I had more words to describe it , but I have n't yet . |
| 8 | I just had to sink that last putt . |
| 9 | ‘ I just had to accept that was him . |
| 10 | So consequently at times there would be er periods of stress for myself , where I just had to get enough money to give my daughter some new clothes like you know . |
| 11 | ‘ When I fell off I just kept thinking this is it , this is it . |
| 12 | Holding up the suit bag , Ellie explained , ‘ I just came to leave this . ’ |
| 13 | I just happened to see these selection of pots no I think there these fancy ones more |
| 14 | I knew the sound that I wanted , in my head , and I just happened to find this old AC30 which belonged to a friend of mine . |
| 15 | O K , I just wanted us to , to do that erm , because erm , one of the things that I suspect when you 're getting down to doing your plan tomorrow , is that with the best will in the world , even though I say but this is for sales course , one of things you will want objectively to look at is either your revenue or your trading base or something , er , I just wanted to carry that through . |
| 16 | I just wanted to clarify that . |
| 17 | I just wanted to say that . |
| 18 | Yes I just wanted to say that , can I just say that within about three days of coming off the drug , all my symptoms of feeling violent , murderous , suicidal completely disappeared and they 've never come back since , and all I 've had since then is a dose of vitamin B six every day . |
| 19 | I just wanted to say that question , so , who discovered Uranus in seventeen eighty one ? |
| 20 | If I 'm g go over things that Dennis covered or that have already been covered this morning , I , I will be brief a and I just wanted to say these are some of my personal views on the quality initiatives . |
| 21 | yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ? |
| 22 | ‘ I just wanted to make some sense out of life . ’ |
| 23 | So I just wanted to clear that , twenty five thousand |
| 24 | I just wanted to compete any time , anywhere . |
| 25 | It was just a quickie , I just wanted to read this little point that I actually think brings lots of what you 've been discussing about together , and it 's a light hearted , but it does have some relevance if I can just say it . |
| 26 | But I soon learnt to get those cows out without messing up my nice clean cow shed , what we used to do , because wanting to get the first one out very quietly , I used to put my hand on the tail , press the tail to the backside and push her out ! |
| 27 | But I soon had to rely more and more on my imagination . |
| 28 | When I gradually began to eat less and less it was with no thought of slimming in the normally accepted sense of the term . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know why I ever agreed to have this car . |
| 30 | I always tried to buy some kind of meat , mainly for my husband , chops or rabbit , mince , a couple of chicken joints for a casserole . |