Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I scanned them once just to make sure Zaria was n't among them and was pretty sure she was n't . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In her wake came the likes of Chrissie Hynde , who found it easier just to wear the trousers . |
| 5 | But when she learned that their questions had arisen through their wonderings about Brown Owl and Mr. Gordon she told them sharply not to busy themselves in Brown Owl 's private affairs . |
| 6 | She took the report , told them all where to find her if necessary and shut herself in her office . |
| 7 | I told them all not to worry , I would go on working with you as soon as you were conscious and we would see our way together to a solution of the whole case . ’ |
| 8 | His hands were everywhere , so I kicked him hard in the ankle and told him exactly where to go . |
| 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 | ‘ I think it started her interest in a lot of things and I positively encouraged her later on to explore other things , ’ says Penny . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | That had shocked me until I heard it too often to remain shocked . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was a primitive misogynist whose hatred of the wife of one of his friends led him quite seriously to plan her murder . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Who was there here who knew her well enough to discern and identify any flaws in her own polished public persona ? |
| 23 | He knew her too well to think that she would allow affection to outweigh her sense of right and wrong . |
| 24 | I knew him well enough to spot that . |
| 25 | Already she knew him well enough to realise he would never make threats he was n't prepared to carry out . |
| 26 | Florian broke off , looking astonished , and Maria knew him well enough to realise that his attention had made a rare leap outward . |
| 27 | But Amanda knew him well enough to suspect that he might be bluffing . |
| 28 | She knew him too well to imagine he 'd let her get away easily , even when he learned there was money . |
| 29 | Wycliffe had scarcely spoken since leaving the hall and Scales knew him too well to try to involve him in conversation . |
| 30 | It took her much longer to get to Leominster Gardens , where Bob lived , than she had expected . |