Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , on the other hand , the golem is already working , then Haberup ( who may not this time be in a position to claim the patent rights ) has presumably done something to annoy it , and in this case ( 10 ) may be used in the sense of an answer to the question : ( 11 ) what did Haberup do to his golem ? |
| 2 | Now that Joyce knew and understood the reason for the onset of her phobia , it was not difficult for us to work together to help her overcome it . |
| 3 | My boyfriend has just asked me to marry him and we are just about to break the good news to our families . |
| 4 | a voice came er , from the , the back of beyond and Keith said , oh he said Sheila has just reminded me to tell you that it was my idea . |
| 5 | He has also asked us to make it clear that this plan is in no sense intended to be fixed and final . |
| 6 | So to get back to what we say er yeah I like to fix a date and if people phone up and say well look I 've I 've got something else or I 've changed my mind I would rather have that than to have lots of paper work on my desk that just says may be or may be not . |
| 7 | Aware that Fred was waiting , hoping to change her mind , she tried again to make him see it her way . |
| 8 | ‘ Only that I can not believe no man has yet asked you to marry him . ’ |
| 9 | Bill has never asked anybody to forgive him before . |
| 10 | The village of Little Coxwell in Oxfordshire has never seen anything like it . |
| 11 | Which has never stopped her charging me painfully large sums . |
| 12 | Then I 'd better do something to prevent you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ There you are — you 'd better have one to remind you what a foetus looks like at 12 weeks , ’ an enthusiastic PR said . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , you 'd better let me tell him later . ’ |
| 15 | You 'd better let me carry you down . ’ |
| 16 | I 'd better let her take you home or she 'll eat me alive and spit out the bones . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm originally from 80 Km north of there — a wee place called Castlebar and before you start slagging off Mayo footballers , I 'd better let you know I know this year 's hurling result ! ! ! |
| 18 | You 'd better pray we reach it soon , ’ he declared , and stalked away . |
| 19 | Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two |
| 20 | I 'd only suggested it to distract her . |
| 21 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 22 | I 'd always wondered what drove them , what were they about . |
| 23 | I 'd often watched her carrying them from the pile outside , spreading them out , fluffing them up . |
| 24 | Of all the people in the world to expose her seething mass of fears and insecurities to , Guy Sterne would have been her last choice … yet she 'd told him about Mortimer , she 'd carelessly made him a gift of her virginity , she 'd wildly announced she loved him , and now she was baring her soul over the painful anguish of her mother 's death … |
| 25 | I 'd never seen anything like it before . |
| 26 | I 'd never seen anything like it . |
| 27 | I 'd never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 28 | I 'd never seen anything like it . |
| 29 | ‘ I could n't believe it — I 'd never seen anything like it before , ’ he said . |
| 30 | she 'd never seen anything like it , but I think we had quite a lot of new furniture did n't we ? |