Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was what she was upset about she thought , oh dear , Scotty 's a going to be a daddy ! |
| 2 | ‘ You were right about what happened to her , ’ he admitted . |
| 3 | They talked very little about what went on down there among the trees . |
| 4 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 5 | The fact for example that the bandit screens withstood the swinging sledge-hammer and the discharged shotgun at Heaton Chapel Branch last month did not make the experience any more palatable for anyone involved . |
| 6 | In his clumsy , fumbling way he needed to say sorry for what had happened at the club the night before . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sorry for what happened back there . |
| 8 | I am deeply sorry for what happened , but she had caused us all terrible unhappiness and worry . ’ |
| 9 | We never did see that organ grinder again and I felt sorry about what had happened . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was this , the fact that she now had someone else to love her , that made it possible for me to make a proper apology , to stutter out confusedly , red-faced , that I was sorry about what had happened . |
| 11 | Two younger boys came in and , after an awkward silence , one of them ventured to mumble , ‘ I 'm awfully sorry about what happened and everything , David . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sorry about what happened when you came to the house , ’ she said . |
| 13 | I am sorry about what happened … |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not sorry about what happened , I 'm just sorry about you being married . |
| 15 | Look , I was sorry about what happened round at the flat . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're so sorry about what happened to poor old Goosie Lucy but she gave us no choice . |
| 17 | Look , I know you 've said it does n't matter , but I am sorry about what happened up at Handley Farm . ’ |
| 18 | It is unlikely that anti-Semitism was as powerful in its motivational force for recruits in the Party 's ‘ mass phase ’ after 1929–30 as it had been for the early activist core of the NSDAP . |
| 19 | She sat like that for what seemed like ages while I tramped round the room , nervous and on edge and blabbering with the excitement . |
| 20 | We sat like that for what seemed like hours until we could not cry any longer . |
| 21 | There was another side to loving myself , that for me seemed to bear directly upon my cancer . |
| 22 | Bought that for me did n't I ? |
| 23 | This for him came to symbolize the futility of the war , which seemed to be fought for no discernible purpose , between opponents whose essential common humanity was denied by the mass slaughter . |
| 24 | This for him highlighted both the frightfulness of war and the ineptitude of the governing classes . |
| 25 | IN THE Estonian-Latvian twin city of Valga-Valka , nobody is really clear about who started building the new ‘ Berlin Wall ’ that now divides it . |
| 26 | He was clearly embarrassed about what had occurred , but at first was unwilling to say much about what had happened . |
| 27 | Apart from the temperature in my suite being a little too high for someone used to Low Birk Hatt , the entire experience was truly a once-in-a-lifetime thing . |
| 28 | Little by little everything that was most English about her had been eroded and all she had left of it was her honesty , her natural courtesy and a slight reserve she could not entirely eliminate . |
| 29 | Something unpushable about him had made Davies hesitate , and he 'd been all right , there had been nothing to fear ; he and Davies were friends now . |
| 30 | Accreditation is planned for May 1993 after which approved organisations will begin the delivery of MCI . |