Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So hard was the surface that Malcolm 's boot-sprigs failed to cope as he unleashed a bouncer , and he finished flat on the ground , which was where the retreating batsman was supposed to be . |
| 2 | I did n't want to go but I thought she deserved a better life than I could offer . |
| 3 | Johnson soon wished to leave , and pressed Boswell , who , of his very nature , did not want to go until he had met the Earl . |
| 4 | But he did n't want to go if it meant leaving Kate behind . |
| 5 | The judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to show that the former guard captain , Karl-Heinz Becker , 49 , had intended to kill when he fired his pistol at one of the two men fleeing through a checkpoint on 8 April , 1989 . |
| 6 | She crept downstairs , remembering to avoid the creaking step , and padded softly across the living-room floor , hardly daring to breathe as she opened the front door . |
| 7 | All of which became hidden as she shrugged on an oversized khaki shirt , the sleeves hitched up to her elbows . |
| 8 | I gave it one of its earliest tests on my first trip to Coombe Abbey at Coventry , where I had sixty pounds of bream ( weighed ) and only stopped catching when I ran out of groundbait . |
| 9 | The banks , threatened with the loss of many lucrative transactions ( and with expensive computer networks to maintain ) were not co-operating with the authorities , who talked of sending the police round to see that they did . |
| 10 | Michael , 45 , who quit boozing because it threatened to wreck his life , has given up another ‘ vice ’ — being too generous . |
| 11 | And yes , a district general manager should 've resigned because he had an interest in the decision to go for the Trust status . |
| 12 | However , the trucks failed to appear and they learned that talks will be held today with the telecommunications consortium . |
| 13 | What you want to go interfering for she burst out , leave me and my family alone , little busy body always sticking your nose into other people 's affairs , Daryl 's temper flared up , I do n't she said , you gua rd your tongue Sally , I never meant to interfere and I ca n't think what all the fuss is about , either you have a sister or you have n't , I do n't care . |
| 14 | THIS is the book which Peter Mayle planned to write when he went to live in France . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , I nearly choked laughing when I heard you were doing a breakfast show . |
| 16 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 17 | By then she 'd had our second child for which I got blamed as she had n't wanted to be pregnant again . |
| 18 | She did n't want to feel this attraction , and did n't want to know that he felt it too . |
| 19 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
| 20 | Course , that was did n't want to come and she said oh they asked for it in so I just pretended I did n't I 'd handed mine in and did n't say anything like , you know in ca like , cos I had to go and get them yesterday . |
| 21 | No , I mean I know that is is not exactly pertinent to the application that is er in , erm I my personal view is that that that bungalows are are practical , we have had it stated by one resident that a house and a bungalow would be acceptable , erm not that I am er anticipating any other planning develop er applications by these applicants but er would a house of a similar nature to one of these that they have proposed , plus a bungalow er , would we have as much opposition to this , to that as as the present ones , or you would prefer to defer until you saw it ? |
| 22 | The Pretender nearly gave the game away by holding his skirts too high crossing a stream : ‘ some women whom they met reported that they had seen a very big woman , who looked like a man in woman 's clothes . ’ |
| 23 | It would be too late so she said I really want to go because we went out last night you know |
| 24 | I said I want to go and I meant it . |
| 25 | ‘ I have made up my own mind where I want to go and I spoke to Frank Clark this morning the first time for a fortnight . |
| 26 | While the magnificence of the result could justify the fact that The Red Shoes cost twice as much as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp , there were many cases where the extravagance worked against the final result , and Michael Powell has recalled that he became ‘ impatient at the complacency of my associates about the mounting costs of our films . ’ |
| 27 | Pascoe looked around the room as though he were checking to see whether he 'd left anything behind . |
| 28 | He asked the Church Commissioners to do it but would not wait to see whether they consented . |
| 29 | After days of coalition building , Benazir Bhutto could only wait to see if it had paid off . |
| 30 | And he has realised that he had nothing to lose even if I am spying for Carlotta . |