Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only recently I realised just how many animals have to be taken into care because of their owner 's neglect . |
| 2 | After I got back to work I realised just how many people do n't give blood in the Institute ( which is what prompted me to write this article ) . |
| 3 | At the Brixton Academy one stated : ‘ Last night , there ca n't have been two hundred people at the gig and I sold twice as many burgers and hot dogs than I did today . |
| 4 | I had about five barges to look after and you could n't see everyone — not that I cared so very much , to tell the truth . |
| 5 | I got here about half an hour ago , and your sister gave me some tea . ’ |
| 6 | I expected just about this . |
| 7 | I learnt very quickly that prison solved nothing . |
| 8 | ‘ I played nearly as many games in a week for Leicester as I did in six years for Leeds , ’ he says . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I paid far too much for it the first time , so I 've put a really low reserve on it now . |
| 10 | So if you think back now at times when you 've done a training session and you thought I ca n't understand why that did n't work , you know I worked really hard this may actually reveal something to you you did work really hard at it and you put it together just the way that you would like to receive it , but it 's not it just the way the delegates would actually have liked to have seen it done . |
| 11 | I mean I knew just as much as him . |
| 12 | I knew perfectly well that woman was a menace . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew very quickly that to get the kitchen exactly how we wanted it , we 'd have to swap rooms around on the ground floor . |
| 14 | Irina had the idea that I knew certainly as much of the truth behind the events as anyone and possibly more . |
| 15 | erm and I think maybe that you , you jumped in should n't have done that er because obviously M Martin got quite defensive at that point you know because you were only going there to do this financial planning service and er selling them anything , you were just offering this financial planning service and then you jumped in with these , when I come back with my recommendations erm tt I also thought that erm you know it was a little bit dodgy actually to say you , well you know erm tt we have found that our records are incorrect and I thought well then that maybe and erm you went ve you went very o when you were talking about the dependants erm you , you you did n't seem to get into er erm how many children have you got and is there any other dependants , it , you , it seemed to take you a long time to actually get there . |
| 16 | things you see , so erm , I thought right well that 's it Ben can have the garage , I 'll go and buy her the flying circus , Joseph can have the bus and call it a day . |
| 17 | I went outside again that night , just before bedtime , to look at the stars . |
| 18 | I went there early this morning . |
| 19 | I outlined earlier how several of the themes developed in early slave days continue throughout the course of black involvement in sport . |
| 20 | ‘ Last night I said altogether too much ! ’ |
| 21 | Was he , as I originally suspected in Salamanca , an FBI agent or working for the CIA ? ft was a mystery I had no longer any wish to clear up . |
| 22 | I had just as much percentage in attracting that plane if it had been humanly possible . |
| 23 | What with the fact that so many people seemed to have so many wrong impressions , I slept very soundly that night . |
| 24 | I wondered suddenly how many of the household were listening , and as if he read my thoughts Toby said , " Mavis is out for the evening . " |
| 25 | So France , which built far too much nuclear capacity with cheap government-backed loans , exports electricity to Britain and Italy at absurdly low rates . |
| 26 | Before the Great Depression , which shook so fundamentally any belief in the possibility of continuous economic growth . |
| 27 | ‘ Wait , calm yourself , sabiha tieghi , my beautiful one , ’ he teased softly , unbuttoning his shirt with fingers which shook almost as much as hers had done . |
| 28 | Unlike most clergy houses , which had either too little furniture in them for reasons of poverty or too much from the wrong sort of inheritance , Canon Wheeler 's had just the right amount in the right places . |
| 29 | For the first time in her life she realised just how little opposition she had ever had to face — in anything . |
| 30 | Suddenly she realised just how much she 'd been hoping that Jake and Janice were still not married . |