Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [to-vb] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been fastening the buttons at the shoulder of Thomas 's elephant-patterned pyjamas , but all sense of co-ordination suddenly seemed to vanish and her fingers fumbled in vain . |
| 2 | I mean he grasped what the word , he grasped the way she taught him and he soon learnt to read and he could retain those words |
| 3 | If you did end up as a German , however , you still played to win and I can remember a kind of perverse pleasure in being determined to win , even though I was a German , which was something of a contradiction . |
| 4 | Then her eyes slowly began to focus and she realised that they had n't just been tossed on to the bed . |
| 5 | He had a very well-developed but dry sense of humour which I often tried to copy and I think that is why people used to say I was like him . |
| 6 | In effect Jones 's book revealed an unwelcome truth which no one really wanted to hear and which the service was able easily to diffuse and ignore . |
| 7 | 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 . |