Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [vb past] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Was I hearing him right or had I missed the point as so often happened ?
2 She did n't think that it was her place to do so nor did she want to appear to be a burden to the man she loved .
3 This did not stop them from associating together nor did it stop the spread of a vague common ideology .
4 Christina decided he looked happy enough and left him to enjoy himself .
5 So one day my girlfriend just had enough and told them to fuck off .
6 He had drunk enough and wished he had n't .
7 When he felt he had said enough and made us laugh enough , he went back to his dressing room .
8 We even paid a surprise visit to Corsham , where Rosemary and Clifford Ellis welcomed us warmly and invited me to give a series of lectures and classes .
9 Well my there 's never any please , there 's never any thank you , there 's nothing , I mean there are are n't they , when he was saying that all he 's done for her and they virtually like turned their back on them , he got out in all those winds and weather were n't it , but , we built there and he come out apparently and said I do n't want you having anything else to do with my kids ,
10 Her mum came down the street steaming from the chip shop , and she rushed us inside and got me to make a pot of tea while she shared them all out between the three of us , and we all sat round their fire eating them .
11 He removed it quite gently and drew her stocking off .
12 They took him back to his own house and shut him upstairs while they sat below and deliberated what to do with him .
13 Looking into her churning heart as she stood there that night , she knew she felt an affection for the man opposite and believed he had some affection for her .
14 Gregory was unable to do so and counselled us to abandon the lesion method altogether .
15 You know when they said they were going scuba diving at eight o'clock and did we want to go ?
16 Until the Annan Committee knocked BBC and ITV heads together and made them run a joint system of audience measurement , ITV relied mainly on counting the number of sets switched on and the BBC used sample surveys and audience ‘ diaries ’ .
17 The invisible forces brought us together and made us waltz to an unheard tune .
18 Once , when native Hawaiians were out for blood after a visiting Australian had abused a local , he brought the two sides together and persuaded them to settle peacefully .
19 At Angers the Old King called Henry , Richard and Geoffrey together and compelled them to swear a compact of perpetual peace .
20 Not only did this process of consultation demonstrate that the Council was in charge of its own proceedings , but it brought the bishops together and helped them to get to know one another .
21 He did n't like her much but wanted her to stay .
22 She must have sensed that one day I would be leaving her again , and that nearly broke my heart , knowing the sadness she must feel all too well in my experiences with lovers who never stayed long but left me feeling as if part of me had been torn from my body .
23 You see this thing did you buy this separately or did it come in the Walkman ?
24 Suddenly I just could n't stand it any longer and said I 've GOT to push and she came out like a champagne cork at 8.15 a.m .
25 Finally Miss Thorne refused to wait any longer and told them to take a short break while she left the hall to make a phone call to Hillbrook Farm .
26 I 'm sure he went away and had it done somewhere else .
27 They raped her and took her away and forced her to marry one of them .
28 We did n't know where it was and it was only at the end of the exhibition , when everything was being dismantled , that we found the piece hidden away and realised what had happened .
29 His head lowered , kissing her with a passion that took her breath away and left her trembling .
30 The harshness of the alcohol took his breath away and made him choke again , and Paul collapsed in a fit of laughter as he expelled half of it in a further bout of coughing .
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