Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [det] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling a twinge of guilt because she 'd inadvertently brought it all up when all they wanted was for it to remain buried , and pushing aside for the moment the whys and wherefores of her grandfather 's involvement , Ellie apologised quietly , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 2 | It seemed callous to hurt him so , and a terrible rejection of his dead parents to have forgotten a friend who had obviously loved them both very much . |
| 3 | He had not checked them all personally . |
| 4 | We have not heard it all before , unless we have read , as few of us have , Harriet Zinnes 's compendium Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts , which all these essayists draw on very heavily . |
| 5 | I 've just moved it all away |
| 6 | ‘ But I feel annoyed that she had not thought it all through . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just figured it all out . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I think he 's angry that having given me the freedom to think for myself , I 've not followed him all down the line . ’ |
| 9 | So we 'd have that but she 's already cut them all up into twelfths so how many twelfths how many twelfths would we get each ? |
| 10 | We 've just taken them all out to wash them , that 's all ! |
| 11 | What I 've just rubbed it all out . |
| 12 | No one had ever told her this before — not even Sam Baldwin , who wanted to marry her . |
| 13 | They forget that the magic of television means that we 've probably heard it all before , so we really do make an effort to go for fresh material . |
| 14 | I think I have , I 've probably seen them all like . |
| 15 | They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together . |
| 16 | With only a few left to pick up Jo ( 4.1 ) said , ‘ We 've nearly put them all away . ’ |
| 17 | But I know you have never really rated him that highly . |
| 18 | But I did n't think they would put the band back together ; David had mentioned it a couple of times but I had n't really taken him that seriously . |
| 19 | Where else has he accumulated his vast wealth — and we have n't added it all up yet , not by any means . ’ |
| 20 | They have n't done us many lately . ’ |
| 21 | I du n no , I ai n't used them all yet still reckon we 're gon na be short though |
| 22 | We have a management plan now - and we have n't called it that before . |
| 23 | So now he sat there , his napkin tucked around his chin , smiling gently : a mild-natured , weak , weakened old man , loyal to his bully of a wife , glad to be included , glad Shirley had n't found it all too much for her , grateful to sit there in the warmth of the nice oil-fired 1970s central heating . |
| 24 | No , we have n't eaten them all yet , still got half a box open hiding away from Gary |
| 25 | . I suppose what we should of done is , done the next one along the drop down there and then matched it all up backwards is n't it ? |
| 26 | They have , of course , heard about the Holy Spirit , but have either put it all down to typical ecclesiastical in-talk , or assumed that it was not intended for ordinary folk like themselves . |
| 27 | She 'd almost certainly heard them all before . |
| 28 | Spellbound , I drove upwards into the bright splendour , staring through the windscreen as though I had never seen it all before ; the bronze of the dead bracken spilling down the grassy Banks of the hills , the dark smudges of trees , the grey farmhouses and the endless pattern of wails creeping to the heather above . |
| 29 | What a wonderful lot of hair you have , I 've never seen it all down . |
| 30 | ‘ Why have you never told me this before ? ’ |