Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An economy that had been virtually self-contained for 20 years after 1945 suddenly found itself severely tested by international competition . |
| 2 | It obviously gave him plenty to think about . |
| 3 | Erm how long did you actually work at this same place for ? |
| 4 | Her beautiful face would have persuaded most men , including Troy if he had not been married to her , but he no longer loved her enough to agree to anything she wanted . |
| 5 | I sa , I said I just went I just said to her look Hannah you do n't have to come in the car ! |
| 6 | Just said we just bought in fran er franchise for a . |
| 7 | And , of course , he always got someone else to pay for everything anyway , so it was n't any financial problem . |
| 8 | They have reached the first round for the fifth successive year , although once admitted they initially quailed like nervous party-goers . |
| 9 | They have reached the first round for the fifth successive year , although once admitted they initially quailed like nervous party-goers . |
| 10 | Mother always told you never to laugh at other people 's misfortunes . |
| 11 | There was n't much welcome to overstay in the various snack parlours where he lingered ( and where he moreover imagined himself unfavourably recollected from his previous TLM vigils , holding with both hands the creaky Styrofoam container , and watching the light pour past the office windows . |
| 12 | I never once heard her even hint at such a view . |
| 13 | Out of the hundreds of people I interviewed , only once did I genuinely fear for my job . |
| 14 | ‘ You always said yer never borrowed off anybody . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ She nearly made herself late waiting for you , ’ Elizabeth 's mummy said , rather sharply . |
| 16 | Probably the same dislike of children led her to desert me immediately after my birth , and also caused her only to return on that one , fateful occasion when she was at least partly responsible for my little accident . |
| 17 | She was just fifteen : already tall like most of the Husseys , with a serenity of spirit and a proud , obstinate beauty which even now made him fairly ache with fatherly love . |
| 18 | Nevertheless as a woman , a foreigner and a usurper , Catherine was never in a position to dispense with the backing of the landowning class in Russia even had she ever dreamed of doing so . |
| 19 | Some of the lower valued lots also sold below estimate which should be an encouraging sign to collectors in the part II and III of the sales , scheduled for October and December of this year . |
| 20 | Students of literature who used concordance packages on mainframes commonly asked the computer to produce for them a complete print-out of their chosen concordance , and then took it home to consult in the traditional manner , turning the pages of a sheaf of paper . |
| 21 | but , er , you look at it like this then , if we did n't crawl out of the sea and er evolve then did we just appear like a flash of lighting |
| 22 | Bosses saw nothing wrong with flying the flag — and neither did anyone else living near the Roman Carriage car company in Winklebury . |
| 23 | She liked to take walks alone , and occasionally pretended she completely belonged in St James 's Park or Kensington and always had . |
| 24 | Maybe he was right but I never noticed them particularly pointed in my direction ! |
| 25 | I never thought I never thought of putting any icing sugar in |
| 26 | We never spoke we just worked with signals . |