Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it was the last one left and we did n't want to get another bearded collie because it would when our old bearded collie eventually goes we did n't want it to remind us too much so we said we 'd go completely different . |
| 2 | ‘ Val would presumably prefer you did n't get arrested . ’ |
| 3 | One Sunday night at the Wood Green Odeon a group of youths and girls were making so much more than a tolerable racket that I eventually asked them to quieten down . |
| 4 | Sometime during the night , I was woken by my cold feet , a warm weight on my chest and the loudest purr I had ever heard . |
| 5 | And the thought of Leo actually kissing her properly made her feel positively ill ! |
| 6 | A FILM studio manageress who claimed her boss said she was ‘ the worst lay I 've ever tried to have ’ was awarded £1,000 yesterday . |
| 7 | Darrow and Govan were the first to identify with any certainty which ions were lost in diarrhoea and the quantities involved , thereby enabling them to state accurately the required make-up of an intravenous infusion aimed at replacing lost nutrients . |
| 8 | of ten , when people talked at her , it only made her feel more isolated and cut off . |
| 9 | In many ways the life of a great political hostess was very attractive to her , which only made her feel more guilty , but she knew that she could not tolerate a life of subordination and absolute dependency . |
| 10 | It only made them laugh more . |
| 11 | ‘ He only made me cry once , ’ she mumbled against his sweater . |
| 12 | We can only presume they mean too BUSY |
| 13 | She suddenly realized she did n't know what she had meant . |
| 14 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |
| 15 | I suddenly realised they did n't like each other ; that they were rivals . |
| 16 | As they drove along Three Springs Road , Juliet suddenly realised they did n't know Miss Rose 's address ! |
| 17 | His gaze had already returned to Jessamy , and she suddenly realised she did n't want to be left alone with Julius . |
| 18 | we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons |
| 19 | ( We only asked them to comment here if it did not meet expectations — either they all had low expectations or the conference was a high standard . ) |
| 20 | It had lain there all day , still unread , for he knew that just to look at it , just to scan its heavy headlines announcing further death and destruction would only make him sink deeper into the bog of doubt . |
| 21 | You 'd be lost here I can tell you angel , especially given you do n't know how to get from Shepherd 's Bush to Hammersmith without a police escort . |
| 22 | Ever heard the expression , ‘ He 's so stoned he does n't know what day of the week it is ’ ? |
| 23 | Though Thomas was greatly revered he had never been well off , and now that he had retired from government advisory jobs he earned nothing much except by writing . |
| 24 | These broad themes taken together led us to put forward a proposal for a anew divorce law in our book Grounds for Divorce . |
| 25 | After her husband told her they had been ruined by Wickens , she stormed off to confront him , only to see him setting off on his bicycle . |
| 26 | At the Conservative Party conference in October 1988 Mrs Thatcher stated : ‘ We have n't worked all these years to free Britain from the paralysis of socialism only to see it creep in through the back door of central control and bureaucracy from Brussels ’ . |
| 27 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 28 | But it was certainly not one-way traffic in front of an absorbed 19,528 crowd although Dean Saunders had the ball in the net for Villa as early as the tenth minute only to see it wiped out for offside . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you think I 've lost a fortune only to see it salted away in the same nip-cheese fashion as before ? |
| 30 | When the box arrived , the zoologist took the animal out to examine it , only to see it keel over and lie motionless on her hand . |