Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one long experiment a woman and bottlenose dolphin lived together constantly fur several months . |
| 2 | The odd couple got together yesterday to urge all slap-happy mums and dads to ‘ count to ten and think again ’ . |
| 3 | We do not yet know much about this but the brain is so powerful and complex that it is very unlikely that any of the analyses proposed so far bear much resemblance to this reality ; they are too heavily influenced by the theoretician 's preoccupation with economy , elegance and simplicity . |
| 4 | Sam put the besom to work and Evelyn tried once more to shift that awful basket . |
| 5 | The hat becomes limp and shapeless , and most girls tried quite desperately to avoid this mishap . |
| 6 | Luce tried hard not to credit any other possibility , but the truth was , she felt like Alice , her confidence in the sanity of things shattered . |
| 7 | Making two shots at it before he could manage the switch , he wondered if he 'd better not drink any more . |
| 8 | I 'd better not drink any more ! |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd better not waste any more time , ’ she added , pushing the door open and going through , finding herself at an entrance to the dock area that she had seen from Froebe 's office . |
| 10 | We 'd better not waste any time . |
| 11 | I thought , all right , I 'd better not do that again . |
| 12 | A blind person remarked : ‘ If someone said to me ‘ You 'd better not do this placement ’ then I 'd rather walk to Australia on my hands than admit that I could n't . ’ |
| 13 | My partner suggested perhaps we 'd better not do this again . |
| 14 | It 's got pockets , yes , you 'd better not open those actually . |
| 15 | And very … well , I 'd better not say any more about that . |
| 16 | However — ’ he grinned at the expression on her face ‘ — I 'd better not say any more . |
| 17 | you 'd better not have that had ya ? |
| 18 | I 'd better not use this felt tip |
| 19 | I 'd better not use this felt tip |
| 20 | You 'd better not put any bum ones in . |
| 21 | They 'd better not get any on me after I 've done this , put it that way . |
| 22 | ‘ We 'd better not push this too far , ’ said Edward . |
| 23 | I 'd better not take any more at once in case they fall off . |
| 24 | I ca n't remember who it was now , but they said have you been , have you seen this , have you done that , which she said no she has n't , I think she 'd only just arrived some , some time last week did n't she ? |
| 25 | but she 'd already partially answered that question by saying , |
| 26 | Nigel said ‘ Your place or mine ? ’ when they 'd both duly impressed each other with lies . |
| 27 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |
| 28 | She knew all Isabelle 's small store of jewellery , and she 'd certainly never seen this before , although she had to admit it was a beautiful thing . |
| 29 | Until now I 'd never consciously posed that choice to myself . |
| 30 | She 'd never before felt such a surge of creative stimulation . |