Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [pron] " 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 | Mrs Marcos agreed long ago to fly her husband 's body direct to Laoag , but she is now hinting at defiance . |
| 4 | Dougal was relieved that Miss Devenish agreed so readily to see him . |
| 5 | Forcing herself to blank the sounds from her head , she stared straight ahead , but found little there to soothe her . |
| 6 | Bristol led after five minutes when Dziekanowski held off a challenge before centering accurately to the far post , where Rosenior headed powerfully home to mark his first full appearance for the club . |
| 7 | We all fell in with what you wanted , we all bent over backwards to do what you wanted . |
| 8 | The board bent over backwards to help me raise funds for players and it 's been the same for Nigel Best . |
| 9 | But the darker side of her nature rose up cynically to rebut her hopes . |
| 10 | Her arms jerked out immediately to scoop it up . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She came on here to help me with the coffee for the Church Army before Paul left . ’ |
| 13 | Then she came down here to tell my mum . |
| 14 | We were not gracious yesterday — especially as this child came so far to find us . |
| 15 | Fifty four years later the boys and their families came together again to honour their benefactors in the garden at the Manor . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | The next week she came in especially to tell us she had joined our special club . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | erm when I first started working in Harlow eighteen years ago one evening I came up just to see what the playhouse was all about . |
| 20 | cos I mean they do n't usually do they , but he did he came up there to see me |
| 21 | ‘ Well , would you believe I came up there to save you ? |
| 22 | Ash had never met Miss LaMotte , who indeed came out exceptionally to please me and to speak of her dear Father , whose Mythologies I have had some hand in bringing before the English public . |
| 23 | Now , if you came out here to annoy me then … ’ |
| 24 | Mike obviously found out Bernard was alive and came out here to get him . |
| 25 | ‘ But she came here specifically to see you ? ’ |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the Venetian government always felt its position to be somewhat ambiguous and was correspondingly sensitive to anything that seemed even remotely to challenge it . |
| 27 | You have to remember they came round here to kill me . |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't you remember , his secretary came round earlier to tell us ? ’ |
| 29 | However , his wife pointed out that Katy seemed no longer to approach him for attention — instead she had began to play by herself in very stereotyped and restricted ways . |
| 30 | Lewis several times commented on Eliot 's capacity for alcohol , which , as I have mentioned , seemed never visibly to affect him . |