Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
| 2 | If you were so set on helping me then why did n't you just come straight over and … ’ |
| 3 | Oh did I laugh me just about done with these |
| 4 | These taxes are surely indefensible , because they are not only unproductive to the country , but actually put up the costs of producing our goods and make them less attractively priced for the overseas market . |
| 5 | In view of the understandable difficulty that this inelegant and complex piece of legislation presented to these people , one must stand in awe at what one Member , Sir Michael Havers , had the temerity to say at the Third Reading of the Bill : ‘ One of the great ambitions of successive Parliaments is to simplify the laws that they pass and make them more readily understood . ’ |
| 6 | I scanned them once just to make sure Zaria was n't among them and was pretty sure she was n't . |
| 7 | But I do n't think I ever seriously considered having Low Birk Hatt connected when they offered it to me . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I do n't think I ever really knew that . |
| 9 | She readily admits that she did so deliberately : ‘ I do n't think I ever really believed he would stay with me unless we had a child . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's terribly sad but I do n't think I ever really loved her , either . |
| 11 | To make , to give her the welfare and I 've proved it , I mean I just sometimes goes off |
| 12 | I mean I really just sitting |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , Ven , and I thought it was because you did n't trust me enough not to ask Lubor personal questions about you for my interview . ’ |
| 14 | The Performing Right Society is currently circulating all orchestras and bands in the country with a directive instructing them no longer to submit notification of all live performances . |
| 15 | It would suit them very well to have the tenancy of the house for at least another year . |
| 16 | We do n't really know them well enough do we ? |
| 17 | I would have enjoyed them even more had I not been about to faint every ten yards , but I was in far too bad a mood to tell my colleagues to slow down and wait for me . |
| 18 | Tugging at these I found them fairly firmly embedded , but eventually the mud yielded up a length of chain with the most beautiful padlock on the end of it . |
| 19 | They say she never even visited it , but there is no proof of this . |
| 20 | ‘ The simplest thing would be for you to write to STG and say you no longer wish them to represent you . |
| 21 | This was the first time she had addressed him directly since take off . |
| 22 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 23 | Francis believes he could become Alan Shearer 's partner in the England side , and rated him highly enough to agree a new , four-year contract in the summer worth £4,000 a week . |
| 24 | It 's just that I have arranged to meet him tonight sometime to sort out a few things for me would of made a lot more sense if he 'd been here ! |
| 25 | Another guard frisked him expertly then led him up the steps into the house . |
| 26 | I did n't like Mike , ’ she says , ‘ I strolled in and he did n't like me , he was at that age when he did n't like people if they did n't look cool so I hated him because he used to be really sarcastic and I did n't know him well enough to realise that he was only messing . |
| 27 | I am Catholic and can not divorce but I do not want to divorce because I do not know him well enough to want to divorce him . |
| 28 | Cheney declared himself " stunned , angry and frustrated " by his involvement in the scandal and , like many other offenders , blamed dubious administrative practices by the bank for not keeping a more accurate record of the state of his account and for not keeping him more closely informed of his financial position . |
| 29 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 30 | Rosalba baked special almond biscuits , hoops of crumbly nuts and fine sugar , intending to wrap some in coloured papers and offer them to Tommaso 's mother as a gift for the feast ; but could not , because , as she was about to set off , she realised that she did not know her well enough to call and give her a present . |