Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , on the other hand , the golem is already working , then Haberup ( who may not this time be in a position to claim the patent rights ) has presumably done something to annoy it , and in this case ( 10 ) may be used in the sense of an answer to the question : ( 11 ) what did Haberup do to his golem ? |
| 2 | My boyfriend has just asked me to marry him and we are just about to break the good news to our families . |
| 3 | a voice came er , from the , the back of beyond and Keith said , oh he said Sheila has just reminded me to tell you that it was my idea . |
| 4 | He has also asked us to make it clear that this plan is in no sense intended to be fixed and final . |
| 5 | ‘ Only that I can not believe no man has yet asked you to marry him . ’ |
| 6 | Bill has never asked anybody to forgive him before . |
| 7 | The village of Little Coxwell in Oxfordshire has never seen anything like it . |
| 8 | Which has never stopped her charging me painfully large sums . |
| 9 | Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two |
| 10 | I 'd only suggested it to distract her . |
| 11 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 12 | I 'd always wondered what drove them , what were they about . |
| 13 | I 'd often watched her carrying them from the pile outside , spreading them out , fluffing them up . |
| 14 | Of all the people in the world to expose her seething mass of fears and insecurities to , Guy Sterne would have been her last choice … yet she 'd told him about Mortimer , she 'd carelessly made him a gift of her virginity , she 'd wildly announced she loved him , and now she was baring her soul over the painful anguish of her mother 's death … |
| 15 | I 'd never seen anything like it before . |
| 16 | I 'd never seen anything like it . |
| 17 | I 'd never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 18 | I 'd never seen anything like it . |
| 19 | ‘ I could n't believe it — I 'd never seen anything like it before , ’ he said . |
| 20 | she 'd never seen anything like it , but I think we had quite a lot of new furniture did n't we ? |
| 21 | She 'd never seen anything like it in other people 's houses , or in shops — not even antique shops . |
| 22 | It did n't seem right , yet , looking at his face you 'd , she 'd thought he could have come home , but when you lifted the bloody sheets and then she 'd never seen anything like it , and then on the Monday morning , I stayed with him Sunday night and he were on morphine fusions and then on the Monday morning I woke up and mum had gone , when I looked at dad I thought to myself then I thought oh boy you ai n't gon na go now mum nipped home for a bath they said she could and it 'll be alright and they said |
| 23 | It was a perfectly appropriate action , but she 'd never seen anyone do it before as a gesture of relief after social effort . |
| 24 | Paige was glad , then , that she 'd never allowed herself to believe they had a future . |
| 25 | How could I have ever believed I loved him ? she cried silently . |
| 26 | She had badly wanted him to kiss her , of course — so badly that she knew it simply must not happen … |
| 27 | The GIST workpack , Gender in Our Lives , was used at another school , but a senior member of management had effectively insisted they use it , and some teachers did so with considerable reservations , afterwards reporting almost complete failure to alter children 's prejudices . |
| 28 | The director , Peter Wood , made Orton — who had personally requested him to direct it — do the rewrites . |
| 29 | Nurse Willow had already warned her to put it in the crib . ’ |
| 30 | He had already asked her to marry him . |