Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So they never lived long enough to know I had justified their faith in me . ’ |
| 2 | He did , and I heard him say , ‘ Well , at least I lived long enough to meet you , love . ’ |
| 3 | Dougal was relieved that Miss Devenish agreed so readily to see him . |
| 4 | Forcing herself to blank the sounds from her head , she stared straight ahead , but found little there to soothe her . |
| 5 | The cross-section data used so far gives us little indication about how many workers continue in employment long enough to recoup the wages that were deferred earlier in their career . |
| 6 | As a family , they had everything — materially , anyway — and their father bent over backwards pleasing them , assuring them he loved them all . |
| 7 | The board bent over backwards to help me raise funds for players and it 's been the same for Nigel Best . |
| 8 | Her arms jerked out immediately to scoop it up . |
| 9 | The children drew back hastily to let her through and her progress across the asphalt was like that of Moses going through the Red Sea when the waters parted . |
| 10 | Clover Roope , who later became a dancer , remembers going there to take lessons from a governess she shared with John 's stepsisters , and described how absolutely devoted she and they were to this young man with ‘ a fantastic nose and fantastic eyes and this rather long , lanky figure , who was not really a dancer and not really yet a choreographer , but gave the sense already that here was somebody important . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She was running up debts , and when her full-time employment ceased not only did she have her alcohol problem but also had a number of clothing clubs pursuing her . ’ |
| 12 | She came on here to help me with the coffee for the Church Army before Paul left . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps it was a sign that she 'd only just realized she 'd done something wrong with her life . ’ |
| 14 | Lucenzo looked up as if he 'd only just realised she 'd slipped away , and seemed taken aback when he saw her . |
| 15 | It was as if I 'd only just found him , except that now I 'd start to wail like a baby if someone so much as knocked my little finger . |
| 16 | Well , they came by in their lorry when we 'd only just started you see , of course great ’ ooh hahhhh ’ with their when we 're treading in , and erm trouble was , we were still doing when the came along and they yelled out ’ you prisoner , we free ! ’ |
| 17 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 18 | Well I 'd only just brought it in the kitchen actually . |
| 19 | And I had Avenger estate , and I done the same with that and I got away with it for ages and I what you want a do , I know what you wan na do he erm , I mean that 's that 's really sort of pushing it over the top but he got a great big sheet of polythene , he went down to ready mix and had a load of ready mix in the back of this Avenger estate , brand new he 'd only just got it ! |
| 20 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd only ever given him pills before , and I 'm not medically trained , but it 's surprising how quickly you get used to it . |
| 22 | So the years went by , and such involvements as came along never satisfied me as being quite right enough either for one thing or the other . |
| 23 | We were not gracious yesterday — especially as this child came so far to find us . |
| 24 | They came in today to give us this talk about kind of er , kind of erm , money we 're gon na get , whatever today , you know , like they said about the Poll Tax |
| 25 | The next week she came in especially to tell us she had joined our special club . |
| 26 | I had stopped seeing the nightmare shape when I shut my eyes but every so often the pigeon stirred just enough to keep me awake . |
| 27 | He 'd just about made it by the time Private Boyd had strapped my gun belt on and issued me with a plastic face visor which fitted with adjustable straps at the back . |
| 28 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 29 | yeah , you can go ok watch her actually because er , she went right back up on these bloody chairs this afternoon , I mean she really cried , oh course I mean she , oh when Catherine come in I mean she 'd not long done it , then she nodded off to sleep I said oh they always say you should try , I mean I |
| 30 | She 'd already virtually accused him of killing her brother . |