Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ We all got to know her quite well and used to ignore her she 'd just come in , browse around , buy a couple of things and go . |
| 2 | I got to know it pretty well when I was living in Sheffield and I 'd recommend anyone to take a walking holiday there . |
| 3 | Although he had a key to her apartment and tried to lock her out once when she lost hers he did not live permanently with her . |
| 4 | Alfieri watched out for his clients and tried to help them as far as his job would allow . |
| 5 | I tried to do it really well because it was my last grade . |
| 6 | I belonged to them in the sense that when I was interested in something I tried to understand it as far as possible and , of course , even tried to make use of it . |
| 7 | ‘ Yeah , well , I tried to rip it apart earlier and did n't get very |
| 8 | When I asked why , she tried to tell me as gently as she could , but I did n't understand — ‘ Your Pop comes into our room at night . ’ |
| 9 | Did I tell you Madeleine came to see me again shortly after you left ? |
| 10 | He came to meet her so fast that the skirt of his white coat floated out behind him . |
| 11 | Matthew seemed to avoid her as studiously as he avoided Sandra ! |
| 12 | He seemed to love her as fiercely as he had once loved Ryan , Shiona thought to herself with a little inner shiver . |
| 13 | Even to get this much he had had to agree to a number of statutes which he construed as so prejudicial that he vowed to repeal them as soon as possible . |
| 14 | But the fact that several critics began to challenge them as early as 1924 demonstrates that the campaign she had initiated in 1923 met with some success . |
| 15 | It looked enticing and we decided to follow it as far as we could . |
| 16 | ‘ I offered to bring her back again but she said she had to wait for Angharad . ’ |
| 17 | I got Bunny out of the pub just before chucking-out time and with a bit of persuasion he agreed to take me as far as Hackney , dropping me off at the end of Stuart Street . |
| 18 | He was working until the evening of the following day , but he asked to take me out again and I said it would be delightful . |
| 19 | Every hour mattered : I had to see her as soon as possible . |
| 20 | And Peper Peter had to accept it not just once you know and then he was a changed man . |
| 21 | To ensure that his subjects acquired the habit of carrying out his instructions he had to visit them as often as possible , and although the king 's itinerary was normally publicized in advance — so that merchants and tradesmen , as well as petitioners , could frequent his court without difficulty — it was sometimes useful to turn up without warning . |
| 22 | and er , we had to set it up here and we sit here watching the telly and they 'd sit here for hours |
| 23 | Yves Saint Laurent , on the other hand , licensed its brand worldwide , but had to buy it back again when the licensees splashed YSL initials everywhere . |
| 24 | So as a result to that , there , there erm , there is going to be a public meeting on the tenth September , which is actually organised by the Labour party , erm , but obviously the who thing very worried about the attendance at that , erm the , have , had to organise it very quickly because he wants to get it in before the sixteenth , we 'll still trying to get erm a National speaker , I 'm hoping that Julie from the er , eh National Help Federation will be able to come , but she 's on holiday till Monday erm , I do n't . |
| 25 | Not without throwing a great lot onto the rates because the rates were just Selkirkshire , and Peebleshire had to keep it up then and er we did n't er get grants for it in these days . |
| 26 | Oh yeah , that 's right you had to hold yours up together as well . |
| 27 | I took the line and hook off him and immediately had to drop them again so that I could strike , play and land another chub of about 3lb . |
| 28 | ‘ My love , ’ he said , ‘ what was so urgent that you had to summon me so soon after we parted yesterday afternoon ? |
| 29 | She had to cut it short now and just leave , otherwise she would n't have the courage to do it . |
| 30 | Mozart , knowing that his father would be devastated by the news , sought to prepare him as gently as possible for it by writing to him that she was gravely ill and at the same time writing to their close friend , Bullinger , telling him the whole story , in the hope that Bullinger could support and comfort his father and sister when he finally broke the news to them , which he was intending to do in a second letter to his father . |