Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Hahnemann discovered that if a patient needed a particular remedy he or she tended to be very sensitive to it — much more so than someone for whom it was not indicated . |
| 2 | Even their religious faith was subtly different from her own : they seemed hemmed in by a regiment of saints , feasts , rules , indulgences , penances and novenas , and everyone seemed to be permanently on guard against saying or doing anything that might be deemed heretical . |
| 3 | There was no sign of her at tea-time , and I began to be seriously worried . |
| 4 | Everything went on as normal and I tried to be as pleasant as I could and as loving towards Anne as I had always been , but she must have noticed that a part of me was absent : simply somewhere else . |
| 5 | Whether this was in fact the first is not really known , nor is it known how or why the tradition started , but Mr Hector Buckley ( in whose barn the 1964 pie was made and which had to be partially demolished to get the pie out ) has a theory about this . |
| 6 | Er and you 'd er they 'd er just bang on the door and , and call you and you had to be downstairs in five minutes . |
| 7 | And you had to be very careful with the grouse . |
| 8 | But er with the the the er the original the the first one , you had to heat it up with a blowlamp and you had to be very very careful to get it just to the right heat , before if you tried to start it too cold , it would kick back and if was too hot again , it just would n't start . |
| 9 | Well , to keep it tidy , you see the , the creases used to come out so quickly , and we had to be , well on parade you were , you were looked at and you had to be very tidy and proper and er if you did n't do it you were told to do it and that was that . |
| 10 | ‘ Designing Ancient Rome was in fact more difficult than the science fiction adventures , because one was recreating somewhere that actually existed , and you had to be as accurate as you could within the limits of the budget . |
| 11 | There was also a rather anomalous , enormously fat woman called Foo Foo , who unfortunately has since died , and who appeared to be there to provide little joky episodes between the more serious artistic elements . |
| 12 | So my mum went out but then she still had to read it all because I was under-age and she had to be there . |
| 13 | Her nose was cold and she seemed to be perfectly well so I clipped on her lead and carried her outside . |
| 14 | She wore a corset to support her broken body , and she lived to be only 47 . |
| 15 | Six months had been too long and she wanted to be home . |
| 16 | But the walls of her room seemed suddenly oppressive , and she needed to be somewhere less claustrophobic . |
| 17 | ‘ L Detachment on the other hand , had set a minimum standard to which all ranks had to attain and we had to be most firm in returning to their units ( R.T.U. ) those who were unable to reach that standard . ’ |
| 18 | and er , and we had to be so we got Ian 's one did when we pedal up and down |
| 19 | He 'd come round and it had been so nice , and we seemed to be so comfortable with each other , not just in bed you know , and it did n't occur to me we would n't do things together and see each other . |
| 20 | ‘ Thanks , ’ she 'd said , and everything seemed to be all right . |
| 21 | She felt hot and sticky , and there seemed to be far less room at the bottom of the companionway than she remembered . |
| 22 | Of course the ‘ genre ’ was somewhat doctored now : the forces of law and order had to be given a more positive and heroic role and there had to be far less suggestion of anarchy . |
| 23 | Many of them were the scourings of the jails , and they began to be even more vile than before , burning houses , torturing people , and retaliating against the civilian population in every way they could . |
| 24 | The need for flexibility in plan making was stressed ; something more than land use maps were required and they had to be more responsive to the rapid changes then being experienced in the 1960s in terms of economic and social trends , population forecasts and traffic growth . |
| 25 | And the horses well they they 're the worst to ship some were really bad and they had to be severely tied . |
| 26 | The West Country 's joy at being able to combine quality and tradition in the shape of brand-new brown-and-cream-liveried bus-based four-wheeled diesel units for local branch services turned to dismay when their long wheelbase caused ear-splitting squeals on tight curves , and they had to be rapidly replaced by the thirty-year-old DMUs they had supplanted , fortunately not yet scrapped . |
| 27 | His audiences were clearly defined , perhaps more so than any actor around , and they appeared to be generally under thirty , longhaired , with bearded males in the predominance , and ‘ intelligent ’ — what a silly description that was — females , usually blonde . |
| 28 | Well we were all union members , and everybody wanted to be together , if you are if you are in the union well we had to stuck together an the the more we stayed together the stronger we are , to keep out if we can stay out . |
| 29 | He made it clear that he stayed at La Tour Monchauzet because the vines needed him — and because he was sure that one day — somehow — Isabelle would return to him , and he had to be here — waiting . ’ |
| 30 | Churchill distrusted Stalin but Roosevelt was much mole trusting , and he appeared to be more concerned about British Imperialism . |