Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] accept " in BNC.
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| 1 | One part of me , despite George Crowninshield 's reassurances , anticipated that the twins would emerge as shambling twitching wrecks , and for a second , believing my worst fears , I bitterly regretted accepting the senator 's charter . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I found it a bit disturbing sometimes but I just had to accept it . |
| 4 | ‘ I just had to accept that was him . |
| 5 | I was well aware of what would happen and I just have to accept it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I also have to accept that maybe I 'm not that versatile , so I have to make sure that I 'm in the right situation to show myself off to my best advantage . |
| 7 | Yet I now had to accept , if not yet understand , that Margaret 's fundamental reason for not remarrying was the plain fact that she did not want to . |
| 8 | However , there was nothing I could do about it , and I simply had to accept the situation . |
| 9 | Then an attempted entry to a local authority hairdressing course went embarrassingly wrong ; it finished with Mrs Finni having to spell out her daughter 's handicap to students and a flustered teacher who eventually refused to accept responsibility for a girl who could never be left alone in the classroom . |
| 10 | It was hard and they hurt , but you soon learn to accept it and respect them as they do you . |
| 11 | It was hard and they hurt , but you soon learn to accept it and respect them as they do you . |
| 12 | The late and lovely Ronnie Peterson , one of the sport 's true gentlemen , and in 1976 about to become , after a disastrous season , Mario 's team-mate , said laconically that Chapman 's creation of ‘ marginal ’ cars — that is , of cars stripped of weight and precaution — was ‘ something you just had to accept ’ . |
| 13 | Was there ever any time when you just had to accept the fact that the hay would have to be carried in wet ? |
| 14 | You just have to accept things and get on with your life . ’ |
| 15 | A stock of ‘ standard ’ components will not help when an unusual item is ‘ out of stock ’ , and with these you just have to accept that you are at the mercy of the suppliers . |
| 16 | I think you just have to accept that you have fairly shy fish — but they obviously like their home , as they are breeding . |
| 17 | Spence , the 29-year-old Kent player , said : ‘ Some of the pin positions were difficult but all the greens are sloping and you just have to accept them . |
| 18 | If you accept that unanimity is a near Impossibility , and that a majority decision is the next best thing , you also have to accept , as a general rule , that you will abide by a majority decision when it turns out that you are among the minority . |
| 19 | You also need to accept that the perfect horse has not yet been born . |
| 20 | Was she really prepared to accept all this humiliation for the sake of however many weekends he spared her before he tired of her ? |
| 21 | For example if you 've changed your mind and decide you did n't want the goods or if you had damaged the goods and the shop offer you a credit note , I think you really have to accept that with good grace , cos it is really your fault . |
| 22 | She too refused to accept the justice of the imprisonment . |
| 23 | Those that could moved away , and those that were confident that the local authority would offer them something better refused to accept them . |
| 24 | So we just had to accept he was right all along ! |
| 25 | Perhaps we just have to accept it is God 's will that the unorthodox individual is doomed to years of frustration , ridicule and failure in order to act out his role in the scheme of things , until his day arrives and mankind is ready to receive his message . |
| 26 | Erm so we just have to accept that tourists do n't dress in those sort of clothes . |
| 27 | We just have to accept these things and get on with it . |
| 28 | Sitting there in the Cathedral Close in the weak spring sunlight , trying to grasp the enormity of the events we had lived through , we gradually came to accept that these things were now in the past , and the war was really over . |
| 29 | But the primary point , one now has to accept , is credibility . |
| 30 | But as with most documents that come as packages er , we either have to accept the good with the bad or say no , and enough 's enough . |