Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , they apparently failed to consult their own solicitors on the matter and simply conformed to the request of the mortgagees as a formality . |
| 2 | Anne Hammond 's courageous acceptance of the cruel hand fate had dealt her had moved her far more than she would have believed possible , the more so because it only seemed to emphasise her own feeling of helplessness . |
| 3 | Wordlessly she pulled herself from her chair and swiftly began making him some ham sandwiches . |
| 4 | Of all continental rulers , the German emperors may have been the ones Cnut was most eager to imitate , for in the second half of his reign he perhaps wished to see his own position in the northern world as emulating theirs in Europe . |
| 5 | Sewell was free in his criticisms of others , including his fellow teachers , but he generally failed to state his own experience and opinions clearly . |
| 6 | He managed three points in 1976 driving his own Copersucar Ford , 11 in 1977 , 17 in 1978 , 1 in 1979 , 3 in 1980 and absolutely nothing in 1981 , the year when he finally stopped racing his own cars and quit F1 . |
| 7 | But Mick and I never questioned ourselves ; we just tried to keep it all on the road . ’ |
| 8 | And when the regime finally came to reverse its former position and accept the principle of federation embodied in the new Russian Soviet Federation of Socialist Republics ( RSFSR ) , the same promise was embodied in the new constitution . |
| 9 | They nevertheless determined to maintain their own dividend levels — even at the risk of dealing in volatile pre-election conditions . |
| 10 | You just needed to get it all out of your system . |
| 11 | Factories no longer had to generate their own electricity ; more of them were willing to invest in electrical machinery when they could draw on central power supplies . |
| 12 | She knew what she wanted to learn and she knew where it was ; she just had to shovel it all into her head . |
| 13 | I mean we 're not allowed as many holidays as , as most of them , but then again it was starting up so we just had to take it that way . |
| 14 | Then I 'd wonder why people kept telling me not to take it and conclude that they just wanted to keep it all for themselves . |
| 15 | " I just wanted to offer you any help if I can . |
| 16 | I just wanted to know what that information was , that 's all . |
| 17 | For a time the celibate once more tried to end his own monk-like existence . |
| 18 | Kenneth rotated his shoulders as he drove , trying to ease the nagging pain in them that too much drink the night before always seemed to give him these days . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I hardly liked to ask him that ! ’ |
| 20 | He still had to put his own words on this blank sheet in front of him . |
| 21 | She also agreed to tell him each evening about the sort of day she had had while he was at work . |
| 22 | Yes , but I probably tried to create my own personal brand of Dadaism , just as each of them had their own brand of Dadaism based on the same ideas but expressed in an intensely personal way . |
| 23 | Chesterton also tended to express his own feelings in the mouths of alleged fictional characters . |
| 24 | She also wanted to retain her own surname , separate bank accounts and tax returns . |
| 25 | These inevitably came to influence our own structures of significance and were made apparent by changes in our own subculture of style . |
| 26 | On that January day in 1982 , her first New Year within the royal family , she now threatened to take her own life . |
| 27 | In tandem with developing the care assistant course , the home owners'/managers ' meeting originally started to discuss their own needs . |
| 28 | More self-indulgent self-important twaddle , the product of a rock star who really did believe his own press , his own myth . |
| 29 | Those two were going to give her the creeps if she really had to take them all the way to Titan . |
| 30 | He was a pragmatic loner from first to last , and by now had devised his own answer to the student chestnut ‘ Who will do the dirty work under socialism ? ’ : |