Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pron] [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were able to help him … we can see their house from our bedroom and we just happened to be looking out of the window at the time , do n't you know . ’ |
| 2 | So , I mean , they was trying to come up one day so I could watch the telly and I really needed to . |
| 3 | One of the kids asked about the foal and it suddenly occurred to me they 'd like to see all the mares , so I had them brought inside specially for visitors ' day . " |
| 4 | Well I have n't suggested a a figure , I made reference and I also referred to the fact that when you then discounted completions , identified sites , and existing measurements , you would be approximately eight hundred and fifty dwellings short . |
| 5 | She was an adventuress and she soon turned to ferrying . |
| 6 | ‘ I had them on one night at the South Bank Poly and I just thought to myself , ‘ I ca n't be bothered with this , I really ca n't ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I knew J B Priestley a bit and he once suggested to me that I should do what he did in the Thirties , which was to take a trip around Britain talking to people . |
| 8 | He 's never been particularly happy about being in the group and it just came to a head . ’ |
| 9 | I went into this field and I sat there and cried for hours in this pouring rain and I suddenly thought to myself , ‘ This is ridiculous , this is no good — you 're not meant to be an actor , you 're meant to be something else — a comedian . ’ |
| 10 | Subsection ( 2 ) is clearly an exception to the nemo dat principle , since the buyers were able to confer upon the sub-purchaser a title better than that which the buyers had themselves , namely , a title free from the sellers ’ lien and which therefore gave to the sub-purchaser the right to immediate possession . |
| 11 | It was expected that Noriega 's appeal would question the legal basis for trying a foreign head of state taken into custody during a US military invasion and who now claimed to be a prisoner of war . |
| 12 | ‘ On the last tour I basically played the same thing every night and I suddenly came to the realisation that I was n't progressing as much as I should . |
| 13 | On the last tour I basically played the same thing every night and I suddenly came to the realisation that I was n't progressing as much as I should |
| 14 | ‘ I was down there to see Rim and he hardly spoke to me . |
| 15 | As Chief Inspector of Accidents it was within my domain to agree or reject the proposal , so Geoffrey Holton telephoned me at my home that Sunday morning and I immediately agreed to the UK being responsible for the investigation . |
| 16 | There was a little parapet going round the arcade and it suddenly occurred to Owen that it might provide a vantage-point from which he could more pleasantly monitor proceedings . |
| 17 | It seemed a long time since Dana 's phone call had brought Roman Wyatt into her life and she badly needed to be by herself to think about the turmoil he had caused in her ordered existence . |
| 18 | He told his present translator [ i.e. , Strachey ] , probably in 1921 , that he regarded it as his best-written work … the book remained a favourite all through his life and he constantly recurred to it . |
| 19 | Steve Adorable rolled in about lunchtime and he too needed to be told everything . |
| 20 | It was clearly not a time for any angry rejoinder and she almost fled to the kitchen , her heart beating like a hammer . |
| 21 | I put on the dress and it suddenly came to life . |
| 22 | Lou continued to be the nearest he had to a first and real love and she still went to all the broadcasts and visited Pinewood for every film , sitting on her own canvas chair , sometimes by herself , frequently with her sister Daisy , of whom Ken himself was still very fond . |
| 23 | ‘ I grew up when that kind of modernism was running rampant — it still is — when to be a respectable composer meant that you had to acquire a defiantly difficult style and I just said to myself , ‘ surely there 's another way to do this ? ’ |
| 24 | They did not yet belong to our world and they certainly belonged to no other . |
| 25 | In order to escape payment Beamish fled the country and he only returned to Britain at irregular intervals from then on . |
| 26 | I sat there in ITF 's London offices , listening to the problem and it just came to me . ’ |
| 27 | Bryan Beeson , a defeated opponent at the national championships , said : ‘ I was feeling like death and he actually seemed to be enjoying the rallies . |
| 28 | Goldney , for reasons we do not know , declined the offer of the Cherokee earth and it therefore fell to Cookworthy and Champion to perfect the porcelain known as ‘ Bristol China ’ . |