Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily I 'd had some speed earlier : when I was on blues I could get through anything . |
| 2 | Gee , if only I 'd known that earlier in life . |
| 3 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 4 | So I had told each of my friends apart from one . |
| 5 | So I 'd gone all the way down there and come back for half price basically , and lost on it . |
| 6 | so I 'd got all that , I think it 's forty odd eggs ai n't I just |
| 7 | Three right so perhaps someone had divided this pizza up and all the extra people kept coming in and your mum was saying , Oh no I thought there were going to be three and now there 's six of us . |
| 8 | If only she 'd paid more attention on the way down here . |
| 9 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
| 10 | If only she had shown such dedication as a tennis player . |
| 11 | These were sufficiently warm and outspoken , even flattering , for apparently she had heard much of Sir Alexander Ramsay and , by the sound of her , to his credit . |
| 12 | Apparently you 'd referred some request to them — for access to MI5 and MI6 files . ’ |
| 13 | Alison would have had to decide where to put her own clothes , though perhaps she had left most of them still at her flat . |
| 14 | Elinor dreamily remembered what it was like to feel that your lover possessed all the wonderful qualities you wanted , before you realized that he did n't possess them , and that perhaps you had forced those qualities on him in the first place . |
| 15 | Oh , good child , she teased herself , if only you 'd done this at school and art college , you 'd have got a first . |
| 16 | So she had concocted this marvellous plan to spike Jenny 's guns . |
| 17 | The front cover of Secrets depicts Mary in dishevelled crinoline anxiously awaiting , while Gothic script informs the reader that ‘ for too long — for too long they had savoured those anxious moments … . ’ |
| 18 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 19 | Or were they , perhaps , a nation of satirists ? perhaps they had come all those billions of miles for the purpose of taking the piss out of us . |
| 20 | Perhaps they had thought such a warning from one soldier to another might have seemed an impertinence . |
| 21 | Perhaps they 'd known all along what was going to happen to him . |
| 22 | So they had managed some sort of breakfast , and without waking me . |
| 23 | Hitherto he had felt such a step to be premature , and one that might dangerously provoke the USSR . |
| 24 | If only he had paid more attention when he had had the chance . |
| 25 | Only that perhaps he had manufactured some reason so that she would be able to overcome her own personal fears of being alone with him ; given her an excuse to accept his invitation to re-enter the apartment where he 'd previously abused her both physically and verbally . |
| 26 | Perhaps he 'd wanted some fresh air . |
| 27 | He had expected the sack at the time , but strangely enough he had had more than his share of work from that day on . |
| 28 | So he had heard those monumentally stupid words . |
| 29 | So it 'd got this eggshell in the bottom and they used they would work a a mast a sail on it . |
| 30 | Mechanically he had taken each drink offered without thinking , for the simple reason that he had spent the entire journey staring out of the cabin window into the infinity of space . |