Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wanted to spend some time with you , and I rather doubted if you 'd be susceptible to an offer of a weekend in Paris . |
| 2 | It was only half way through my life , I suddenly realized if you really want something , go for it . |
| 3 | my legs , I suddenly realized when I was changing at the swimming pool , and thought oh sod it , who 's gon na notice , I mean , at half past seven , I really ca n't get that excited about it . |
| 4 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 5 | He only became as it were conscious again when he realised that she was on to another topic . |
| 6 | He only stopped when he felt like it . |
| 7 | The spelling mistakes only occurred when I was shouted . |
| 8 | ‘ She only came because she wanted to see the film . ’ |
| 9 | But the actual impetus to ‘ act ’ only came when I met the right people in the right context … that is , Gerry and Amitha and the rest of the Working Party . |
| 10 | He only noticed when he arrived home near Milan from their hols . |
| 11 | She supposed it was magic , probably it only happened when you swung your head up in a certain way , she would test that tomorrow , and as she dropped asleep it lay alongside the tickets of paper with the numbers she had written , and the tar bubbles and the sun that made red horses and brown splotches when she closed her eyes . |
| 12 | It seemed to me that as much happened as I could bear … . |
| 13 | and I , I told him I was n't stupid enough to keep money in the house as an ex er as an ex lawyer and erm , where , er it so happened as I say that I talked to he , he did n't take any thing in fact at the end he apologise for having chosen the wrong house and he |
| 14 | It so happened if he got paid anyway ! |
| 15 | Porn has never been so loved or so hated as it is now . |
| 16 | So angry was Ian Paisley at the affront to Carson 's memory that he increased his tirade of abuse against O'Neill , produced Carson 's son to contest the Westminster elections in March ( promising four Protestant Unionists in all ) and only withdrew when he realised how devoid of constituency organisation he then was . |
| 17 | I very much enjoyed seeing you on SONGS OF PRAISE from G some months ago . |
| 18 | She only escaped because she was ill at the time and had remained behind . |
| 19 | In er , , you know , we only reversed when we got to the bottom of that last machine , and why had the guy back , erm , went over it , and go through it again , luckily it was only three high . |
| 20 | His latest excuse — that the recession is masking the success of the economy — is the equivalent of ‘ we only lost because they scored more goals ’ . |
| 21 | It only worked when he was stationary , but that was often . |
| 22 | It only worked if she could be brought to the surrendering pitch of exhausted or ecstatic release . |
| 23 | Police say he only survived because he did n't hit anything as he rolled down an embankment . |
| 24 | The couple only survived because he managed to kick open the car door at the last minute . |
| 25 | The girl was dishevelled , her hair a mess , but she only laughed as he caught her and pulled her into another room . |
| 26 | Yeah it only clicked as you 'd gone , when I had to do it . |
| 27 | Oh yes , yes it did yes er I do n't know whether it made us get more idle or what but erm the hours we used to work and erm I , I never had a sitting-down job I was standing all the while , and I only went if we could sort the keys out you know , we were lucky if we could sort them out to put the keys ready for packing you see , everybody wanted that job . |
| 28 | I only knew because he 's had to change his shifts at Conway House a couple of times so that he could be with her after her chemotherapy sessions . ’ |
| 29 | It carried her into the park and only wavered when she saw the playground . |
| 30 | Rosalba would have twitched at such words , but Cati was so used to them , she only wavered because she was wondering how to give him her message , and she thought he was going to turn . |