Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Bedwelty then said , ‘ You asked me up here to give my opinion . |
| 2 | I scanned them once just to make sure Zaria was n't among them and was pretty sure she was n't . |
| 3 | Alright he , he 's probably down there with his wife and my friend and invited me down there to stay in her house but I do n't think it 's September actually , so I do n't , some . |
| 4 | She promised herself never again to disturb the peace of this man 's life . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After Leonora 's stitches were removed , painlessly , to her relief , Penry pronounced her well enough to help with his articles , since typing proved to be another of her accomplishments . |
| 7 | While in screwing the top , I moved it over slightly to give clearance for my jigsaw blade , and started to cut off the overlap . |
| 8 | In her wake came the likes of Chrissie Hynde , who found it easier just to wear the trousers . |
| 9 | I disabused his mind on this point by telling him about the fresh pug marks I had seen at the pool , and advised him very strongly to collect his buffaloes and return to the village . |
| 10 | The Foreign Office advised him very strongly to take no part in the transaction , but this was in fact an encouragement . |
| 11 | The Bishop of London , who was responsible for church organization in America , suggested in 1749 that a bishopric should be created for the American colonies ; nonconformist Protestants in England and in America opposed it strongly enough to lead the government to lay the idea aside . |
| 12 | ‘ And you wiped everything out just to camouflage the truth ? ’ |
| 13 | On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder . |
| 14 | And I scratched it on there to make sure that I did n't forget it . |
| 15 | But when her hubby heard of her endeavours he hotfooted it upstairs only to discover that the sock where he had hidden £500 was gone . |
| 16 | That had shocked me until I heard it too often to remain shocked . |
| 17 | She interpreted them quite accurately to mean that her children were under-achieving and the message she took from them was almost always a negative one . |
| 18 | ‘ I told the people around me that I wanted to quit , so they flew me back home to see a doctor . |
| 19 | ‘ Good morning , Mr Massingham , ’ she pulled herself sharply together to greet him , if her smile had faded then hoping at least to keep pleasant and civil . |
| 20 | He was a primitive misogynist whose hatred of the wife of one of his friends led him quite seriously to plan her murder . |
| 21 | But his enthusiasm for system led him too easily to assume that a native administration duly gazetted was a native administration actually functioning as a responsible organ of local government , and this set a limit to his achievements in reform . |
| 22 | Charlotte , her eyes on Albert who was taking her attention , asked him rather half-heartedly to desist , but the boy threw the ball out of the window . |
| 23 | He brought me down here to work for him under false pretences . |
| 24 | This arrangement continued for eight years , and enabled me not only to work on several books , but also to continue with my computer research . |
| 25 | This enabled them once again to draw up a profile of those high-risk subjects who developed schizophrenia , which turned out to be similar to that reported at an earlier stage of the research . |
| 26 | My predecessor took me carefully aside to explain that this device was part of a plot by the Director of Education either to drive him from his place or to impose comprehensives on the whole campus . |
| 27 | Jay had taken up situationist sculpture , and eased herself half upright to look at yesterday evening 's achievement . |
| 28 | Other women might be able to cope with an affair that was based on passion and nothing else , but she knew herself well enough to realise she could only be permanently scarred by such an involvement . |
| 29 | She knew herself well enough to know that if he challenged her account in the latter mode she 'd almost certainly lose her temper with him , and then the atmosphere between them , which had been ( with the exception of his overtures ) so easy and undemanding , would be spoiled . |
| 30 | Who was there here who knew her well enough to discern and identify any flaws in her own polished public persona ? |