Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] exactly " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ross 's experience struck an identical chord with me , for John Sheard and I had exactly the same experience on the first ascent of Face Route where the second , hanging on a sling to remove gear , was observed by a member of the establishment and a rumour immediately started that was rapidly translated into guidebook writer 's ‘ fact ’ . |
| 2 | In any event he came to see me and we discussed the matter , and I said exactly that to him : that if he had appealed to the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary , it seemed to me a very remote prospect that anything I could do would be of the slightest effect . |
| 3 | I was looking forward to the film because there 's a beginning and an end , and I knew exactly where the character was going . |
| 4 | And I knew exactly the bike I wanted . |
| 5 | What I needed was something like a slightly battered Ford Transit van , and I knew exactly where I could borrow one . |
| 6 | And I knew exactly what it was you they were talking about ! |
| 7 | and we knew exactly what photographs were going to be taken who was shaking who 's hand and you know . |
| 8 | What we tend to do is to brief ourselves very thoroughly on vulnerable spots in the world , and in countries where we already have links and where we 've worked before and we know the background because we , we feel we need that and we monitor very carefully certain events which could lead to a disaster , so that when the disaster does happen , like for instance the Ugandan famine of nineteen seventy-nine to eighty-one , we knew exactly when it was going to happen and we knew exactly where the people were , we knew who was going to be affected , we knew why they were affected , we knew where the food stocks were , we knew how long it was going to take to get so many thousand tonnes of food from A to B erm and how many trucks you would need . |
| 9 | Their manpower requirements were planned in detail and they knew exactly when and for how long they needed additional workers . |
| 10 | And they responded exactly . |
| 11 | The look in his eyes was cool and lofty , she saw , and she just knew then that he was thinking that there were some Sundays when Travis breakfasted at someone else 's table — and he knew exactly where ! |
| 12 | That 's where he was , and he did exactly what he said he 'd do . |
| 13 | He may never have decided to remove the money , and he did exactly what the shop had instructed him to do : put the money in the till . |
| 14 | But I had exactly the contrary feeling . |
| 15 | I was in charge of what is known as the governor , which I felt might be an error , but I did exactly as I was told and all went well . |
| 16 | But you knew exactly where you were with him and I had the utmost respect for his judgement and management of the cutters . |
| 17 | He ran quickly and followed the butterfly on to the marsh , but he knew exactly where he could go , and was not in any danger . |
| 18 | His real name was Ahmad Osman but he looked exactly like the mummy of Ramses the Great in the Cairo Museum . |
| 19 | Tolkien said that he ‘ disliked ’ Shakespeare ‘ cordially ’ , but he used exactly the same phrase of allegory too , where it concealed an opinion of some subtlety . |