Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting them to take me on had taken some persuasion : developing countries do not generally put in requests for people in my profession — clinical psychology . |
| 2 | Any yet I badly wanted to make some kind of personnel response . |
| 3 | ‘ When your mother came to live here and asked me to advise her , ’ he said uneasily , ‘ I naturally wanted to know some background . |
| 4 | So consequently at times there would be er periods of stress for myself , where I just had to get enough money to give my daughter some new clothes like you know . |
| 5 | I just happened to see these selection of pots no I think there these fancy ones more |
| 6 | I just wanted to say that question , so , who discovered Uranus in seventeen eighty one ? |
| 7 | yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ? |
| 8 | ‘ I just wanted to make some sense out of life . ’ |
| 9 | I just wanted to compete any time , anywhere . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know why I ever agreed to have this car . |
| 11 | I always tried to buy some kind of meat , mainly for my husband , chops or rabbit , mince , a couple of chicken joints for a casserole . |
| 12 | After all these years I still enjoyed playing this game . |
| 13 | I thoroughly enjoyed playing this game and , I like the idea of making my own game worlds with the ZZT Editor and controlling the objects using the built in ZZT-OOP programming language . |
| 14 | I now needed to make some sort of a decision . |
| 15 | Dan said , ‘ I really hated to get that news as I really hoped to see them again ’ . |
| 16 | And it 's too late to put together the story I really wanted to do this week . |
| 17 | " I 've been proving to Graham I really did have some wine and it smashed . " |
| 18 | It was not the fault of Annie Besant 's biographer that I often longed to put this book down . |
| 19 | ‘ One of the reasons you went to the cinema when I was a teenager was to pick up girls , but I never seemed to have any luck . |
| 20 | I never thought to see such nastiness , not even serving the Gruagach , I did n't . |
| 21 | ‘ I never thought to see this day , ’ he murmured , as he rose to his feet and gently pulled her up to him . |
| 22 | I never tried to copy those guitar players , but I tried to steal it and kind of change it a little bit . ’ |
| 23 | But I never wanted to see that gasoline engine washer on this hardstand again with the gas trucks parked around it . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't believe that I never stopped to think that Amber , four , was in the room , too , when I started punching her father , ’ Gail recalls . |
| 25 | ‘ I never attempted to put any pressure on him one way or the other . |
| 26 | The phenomenal rise in venereal diseases and the performance of abortions ‘ for social reasons ’ were two of the unintended consequences of sexual hedonism which nevertheless seemed to have little effect on sexual behaviour . |
| 27 | Next to the court was Mr. Stone 's Grocery Shop which never seemed to do much trade — it opened late and closed early — the stock was limited so few people patronised it . |
| 28 | He gained a reputation as the Buster Keaton of the cricket world , a man who rarely seemed to have any expression on his face and who was not one for the excited cavortings that greet the fall of a wicket ; yet behind the mask a good deal of thought was given to his bowling , and he was liked and respected by his fellow players . |
| 29 | But you just had to do that sort of thing , I , we used to feel awfully sorry for the patients but you had , they had do it because they would n't have got a wash otherwise , there was so mu so much to do . |
| 30 | You would stutter a reply that you just wanted to read some news today . |