Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are n't you exhausted ? ’ was the question everyone asked when they came backstage . |
| 2 | No-one moved until she had quite satisfied herself . |
| 3 | You do seem to enjoy watching nude bathers , so do n't you think it would be much better for everyone involved if you went somewhere where they did n't mind being watched ? ’ |
| 4 | I asked although I had already decided that Harvey was a little drunk . |
| 5 | I asked if she had ever been to hear Billy Graham ; a bit unlikely I thought . |
| 6 | As the woman was weeping , I asked if she cried often about this . |
| 7 | I asked if he had ever told his wife or anyone else about this before and his reply was , ‘ No ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ I asked if you felt morally comfortable with this assignment , Caroline . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I think so , but I fainted before I got really close . ’ |
| 10 | When this eagerly awaited party actually happened , it had been going forty minutes before Dad and I realized that we knew virtually no one there . |
| 11 | ‘ No , just a friend , ’ I said too quickly , before I realized that she had almost certainly not been on duty when Sal was brought in . |
| 12 | I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like . |
| 13 | I viewed A&R men the same way and when I met them I realised that they knew even less than I thought they knew . |
| 14 | I realised that I get far more excitement than my heart and head can stand just from seeing my favourite sportsmen or women or teams fight their good fights and win magnificently , or lose unluckily ( always unluckily ) and my blood pressure would be much better off without even that vicarious sort of excitement . |
| 15 | I realised that I had only just been in time before all traces of cropmarks had been obliterated . |
| 16 | I realised that I fitted happily into that sort of setting . |
| 17 | The boys and I agreed that it had all been so worthwhile . |
| 18 | I found that I had far more anger in me than I ever realized . |
| 19 | It made me uncomfortable , but I found that I grew more confident . |
| 20 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 21 | The only thing that was quite extraordinary was what I found when I got as far as the back premises . |
| 22 | I pretended that I did now , of course , so he did n't say anything else . |
| 23 | Strange the tricks that life plays , I mused as I drove home , popping the tape of madrigals into the player . |
| 24 | The parents were removed and I estimated that I had over a hundred eggs . |
| 25 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 26 | At the time I believed that I surrendered completely to him but that he did not surrender completely to me . |
| 27 | I refused him then but I weakened when they asked again after Chip had gone . |
| 28 | At this point I noticed that he had only one nostril . |
| 29 | I noticed as he moved forwards , that he swung his head slightly from side to side . |
| 30 | Visualising the map again , I reckoned that I had probably hit the shore a little to the west of where I landed . |