Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized I just had to accept him for what he was , and when I learnt to do that , he did the same to me - accepted me without question , in all my imperfection , in all that made me unworthy of him . |
| 2 | I do n't think I really expected to see it , but when I did it amused me to follow you , and when you stopped in Wexford it was idle curiosity that prompted my behaviour , nothing else . ’ |
| 3 | Thompson , 29 , said : ‘ I was feeling tired , suffering from cramp and with only five minutes to go I just decided to give it a whack . |
| 4 | Only because so many people complain , I mean I just had to do something . |
| 5 | More than 3,000 turned out for a rally organised by 2 hoteliers who say they just had to do something . |
| 6 | I expect he just wanted to make us very ill . ’ |
| 7 | It obviously took a while to find my feet with the group but when I had done I really started to enjoy myself . |
| 8 | They know how to set traps , they know how to ask you questions which will lead you into using emotive words , they will have you on tape , they will also possibly be in a position to edit that tape , and at the end of the day you can not say , ‘ I did n't say that , ’ because I have a piece of tape that says you actually did say it . |
| 9 | Initially , of course , those who drove her out had to justify their actions to Elizabeth and prevent the English queen making any serious attempt to restore her sister of Scotland ; and they used that scholar of European distinction , George Buchanan , as their apologist , thus enabling the grave and learned humanist to display a remarkable talent for writing , as it were , copy for the Sun in the style of The Times , in his sensational Ane detectioun of the doinges of Marie quene of Scottes . |
| 10 | I mean you just kept breaking your promises |
| 11 | But he would n't believe I really wanted to do it , called me a drop-out . |
| 12 | ‘ It was excellent — great fun , ’ said Andy , adding they also managed to give their boss , housing manager Mike Thomas , a scare into the bargain . |
| 13 | Than when the ambulance men arrived they also tried to revive it . |
| 14 | I do believe he almost tried to catch them but I was too busy by then , swinging up the trumpet case and trying to use it as a battering-ram into Shifty-Eyes ' midriff , or private parts if I was lucky . |
| 15 | Not as fa not the dancing but when she was working in an office you know they just needed to show her something once and she could pick it up . |
| 16 | That principle was enlisted where a disposition was defective , and rested on the fiction that the nuncupatio had been correctly performed but the copyist who had noted it down had left something out . |
| 17 | ‘ I got to were I was 17 or 18 and I decided I just wanted to live my life . |
| 18 | I just grabbed I just granted granted his wish and I |
| 19 | Please believe I never meant to hurt you . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And I suppose you only had to flash your smile at the women in the village to have them all falling over themselves to tell you more . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But I find it impossible to believe you ever intended to marry my father . ’ |
| 22 | A campesina spoke up , saying she too had seen him hand over the knife . |
| 23 | Suppose he really meant to find her first , because he wanted her out of the way . |
| 24 | We could n't talk because I believe he badly wanted to telephone someone who had just returned from China , so it was just a handshake really . |
| 25 | The surge that brought them forward had cut them off . |
| 26 | I thought I probably had misunderstood you . |
| 27 | ‘ Everything went well in the warm-up and I thought I just had to lob it out to qualify . |
| 28 | It made Yeah I know it made that but I thought you just wanted to know what it gave off . |
| 29 | But Carssier thirty two insisted she only tried to defend herself after Rosemary repeatedly punched her ! |
| 30 | All eleven hands of her were so pretty , and so faultless , that whoever saw her always wanted to take her home . |