Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either she was left with the excellent non-skiing kindergarten , which she enjoyed but where she did not learn to ski , something she very much wanted to do , or she had to be put into skischool . |
| 2 | A total of 40.7% of respondents chose their last holiday on the basis that they had done the same before and enjoyed it ; 19.7% went somewhere where they had always wanted to go ; and 17.9% went on a word-of-mouth recommendation . |
| 3 | But he had a problem : the card she had so rapidly thrust into his hand was her business card , no home address , just Belmodes , Mouncy Street , which he knew but where he did not want to wait to visit . |
| 4 | There was , however , an insidious corollary to the belief that God might intervene to save His chosen people and prolong the lives of deserving individuals ; it was that where He did not intervene to save life , those who lost their lives had been found unworthy . |
| 5 | Although I had not intended to work on her aura , my hands began to scan the energy field surrounding her physical body . |
| 6 | Because I had n't sorted myself out about the whole thing properly , my feelings while waiting were a complete tangle — although I did n't want to see him , I did desperately want him to want to see me . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been thinking of you — — far more ’ , he wrote , ‘ than I had ever expected to think of a young man — but then I 've got to know you so well , I really miss you very much . ’ |
| 8 | I knew no other way to learn technique , so I kept on trying to do what she told me , hoping for the best , hoping that my true voice would appear around the corner . |
| 9 | Well , I 've a ward round to get through before I can come over to your unit , George , so I 'd better get moving . |
| 10 | ‘ It happened quite slowly , so I did n't stop doing the things I had always done — apart from driving . |
| 11 | ‘ I had been rowing with my dad since I was little , so I did n't want to go to his new family with my brother . |
| 12 | There was a reception for Charlton afterwards , so I did n't want to keep him . |
| 13 | All right , so I did n't expect to see him today . |
| 14 | but I realised that big weight losses often happen to very overweight people at the beginning of their diets , so I did n't expect to continue at anything like that pace . |
| 15 | I arrived home during the night , so I did n't wake Maryann up . |
| 16 | ‘ It has been a bit painful , but I thought it would probably go away if I ignored it , so I did n't bother seeing my own doctor before we sailed . ’ |
| 17 | It just was n't worth it , so I did n't bother to apply . |
| 18 | I had to be carted off to hospital , so I did n't manage to complete the work until the new year . |
| 19 | I had to be carted off to hospital , so I did n't manage to complete the work until the new year . |
| 20 | Although welcoming my friend 's generosity in giving me a pair , I did not want to mate brother and sister if possible especially as these were already young from a brother and sister pairing , so I did not intend to use the young male unless I could find an unrelated mate for him . |
| 21 | Sometimes , after I 'd given them back their money , the customer would open the palm of their hand and I would discover that one of the coins I had passed over had suddenly disappeared so I ended up having to give them even more bees and honey . |
| 22 | A large sculpture , primitive in nature and in texture , African she thought , although she had not cared to ask him , fearing he might expand rather more than she had bargained for on the origins of what she suspected to be a goddess of fertility . |
| 23 | ‘ Silly sausage , ’ he teased , and , although she carried on studying to complete her A levels , when Fabia left school she seemed to just naturally fill the niche that was tailor-made for her in feeding and exercising the dogs and giving an extra helping of love and attention to the animals who needed it . |
| 24 | But there were other things , things she remembered hearing had happened , although she did not want to alarm her daughter by warning her against them . |
| 25 | She uses her twelve ( or eighteen ) arms and all available weapons to dispense and destroy evil , although she did not relish inflicting pain or death . |
| 26 | Her house was always freezing cold in winter , although she did not seem to notice it . |
| 27 | And I went in there , and asked for their tailoring department and er er I found out after that I was just dead lucky , one of their trouser finishers was going to er leave , she was getting married , and she was leaving and erm although you did n't have to leave then , she she she sort of had got to leave , so er I just fell lucky , there . |
| 28 | While Mrs Walton washed the baby and dressed him in a layette far finer than she had ever imagined existed , Tempy attended to Tamar and put a fresh nightgown on her . |
| 29 | They had stayed talking very late last night , and he knew a lot more about her than she had ever expected to tell anyone , while she knew something about him . |
| 30 | It was a bit cheaper living here in an older neighbourhood than in the heart of the city , so she had n't had to tap into what she 'd earned as companion to Anna Sabatini . |