Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think perhaps that I actually needed to be able to think the worst of you , however personally unpalatable that worst was to me , as some sort of a defence , so that I could despise you even if it meant despising myself as well . |
| 2 | so that they really had to be brought out . |
| 3 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 4 | I said almost nothing in the letter ; only that I 'd thought about her once or twice , that I had discovered what ‘ the waiting-room ’ meant ; and that she was to write back only if she really wanted to , I 'd quite understand if she did n't . |
| 5 | So if you just sold to that at a small surgery that 's what your earnings would be . |
| 6 | It was a photo-opportunity for everyone but only because they genuinely wanted to be there , and to have their picture taken . |
| 7 | Right Leona , can you , can you just go over s the places you lived in before you actually moved to the flat ? |
| 8 | I do n't want to give the impression that we often talked about Shanti 's origins ; we only did so when she obviously wanted to . |
| 9 | Well the , the , the , the , the sort of , the sort of background as I have seen it he never struck me as being particularly clever or bright it 's just that he always seemed to be very well taught and academically successful and exams never seemed an undue problem , and so he went off to Wolverhampton Poly which he selected for , you know , all the usual reasons , reasonable place , reasonable course , a reasonable this a reasonable that , tt erm to do computer science which of course all the kids want to do now erm twentieth centu no it is n't it 's a sort of nineteen eighties version of wanting to be an engine driver is n't it ? |
| 10 | Not that I ever wanted to . |
| 11 | Not that it really mattered to him any more . |
| 12 | Not that it seriously occurred to either of us that anyone might think we had murdered Dennis . |
| 13 | The elderly relatives did what they could but it meant that all through his life — not that he even survived to forty — there was never a chance to take it a bit easier , no one he could rely on to do the work if he was ill or tired . |
| 14 | Within Christianity bread and wine are sacramental not because they just happened to be on the table for a Jewish meal but because they were signs of the covenant . |
| 15 | It was probably true , but she responded scornfully , just as he always did to her . |
| 16 | It was wet and cold , but it held steady , which was more than anything else seemed to . |
| 17 | Er and they developed these skills , as I said earlier , basically for their husbands for use in inclement weather and gradually as they obviously got to m make more and more they got these to trade . |
| 18 | Like all basically lazy people he was content to let things be not only when they were going well , but also when they merely appeared to be going well . |
| 19 | Clarissa pointed out that nobody else seemed to be making a fuss . |
| 20 | Carrie looked at him sharply but he simply seemed to be in an unusually good temper . |
| 21 | So if anybody would like to shout out if there 's not an accurate well if somebody actually listened to it . |
| 22 | Because we , even if we ever came to a final close if |
| 23 | She put her points over to the juniors as well as she always did to everyone else , with a wonderful mix of candour , directness , understanding and humour — and always with a twinkle in the eye . |
| 24 | Well as I actually had to going round the corner , to get myself round the corner , I had to come off the brake and onto the accelerator |
| 25 | Over the years royal staff and her friends have been puzzled by Diana 's appetite , particularly as she always appeared to be so slim . |
| 26 | ‘ I pushed the pram to the top of the street I was afraid they were following me but when I looked round there was nobody there so I just ran to my mum 's . ’ |
| 27 | His family believed he was going to pick up a bankers draft , but he never showed there and he never reported to hospital . |
| 28 | Er they night go back to it then if they really wanted to , or usually there was a reason for it . |
| 29 | She might just about made it then because she certainly seemed to be a bit late on the move . |
| 30 | They parted and Melinda married Philby briefly but this did not work either and she eventually returned to America . |