Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all the crowding work , and a little pleasure , too , I would have written to you yesterday , only I partly feared to , because I had a proposal to make , which it would have been unseemly to make the apparent cause of my haste . |
| 2 | He cried for put him on the bed , could n't do no college work so I just went to bed and left him . |
| 3 | So I then rushed to the front of the building , I said Look , will you come in please ? |
| 4 | I had been taught not to cry till I was really hurt , and so it was not until about eleven o'clock I really began to be noticed and I went into the theatre . |
| 5 | And suddenly she just wanted to be clean . |
| 6 | So you always wanted to be a subject assessor ? |
| 7 | Or perhaps they just went to the pub instead . |
| 8 | Only he rarely had to ; he had an eye ; it was respected . |
| 9 | Perhaps it scarcely mattered to him . |
| 10 | Perhaps he only aimed to chivvy those civilians in another direction , but was inexpert in the settings of the weapon . |
| 11 | So he suddenly came to a halt at the bottom of this stairs as it turned the corner , with the bottom of the wardrobe rammed into his chest , pinning him to the wall . |
| 12 | So it just got to the point when he was getting real busy and I did n't want to put my fate in someone else 's hands — even though my way it was a much slower progression . |
| 13 | He noticed the change in her behaviour but she was more intelligent than he was and so it never occurred to him she had had an affair . |
| 14 | So had she once walked and talked herself in that same garden — or so it now seemed to her — with the young Irishman who had recovered the amethyst and diamond cat which she still wore , very often on her collar and which she had longed — very badly , she remembered — to give him as a keepsake . |
| 15 | I did n't understand Jamie ; he was half the size I was , half the weight or less , and no matter how much we drank together he never seemed to be affected . |
| 16 | So what exactly happened to young Sarah , who was only 10 or 11 years old at the time ? |
| 17 | Ha ha I just she just said to me you any good at German . |
| 18 | Somehow she always happened to be in the company of someone , Walter , Emily or Durkin . |
| 19 | Cleo asked impulsively , unsure whether or not she really wanted to . |
| 20 | I came up here thinking I would ; I assumed I 'd need to offload on somebody , but somehow it never seemed to be the right time to introduce the subject . |
| 21 | Although early on she sheepishly confessed to enjoying the visits , she did n't like the way the Twiggs expected her to call them Mom and Dad . |
| 22 | toilet , in Bon 's , in Dan 's loo at Bon 's party cos I 'm going round going oh no no no no I 'll give you a fiver for it I went I really do n't want to sell and in the end like I just said to him look just fuck off , you know cos like he was just persistent |
| 23 | Well yesterday we actually went to a school and you show them how to use with a condom demonstrator and allow them to touch the condoms , and in youth clubs you allow them to do practically anything with them , as long as they 're returned , they can blow them up , or they can |
| 24 | Waugh perceived a resemblance between the two books himself , and in his letter to Orwell on Nineteen Eighty-Four he reproached him in a jibe as potent as any he ever made to friend or enemy : ‘ Men who love a crucified God need never think of torture as all-powerful . ’ |
| 25 | Later I even appealed to the Member of Parliament for South Edinburgh , then the redoubtable Sir Will Y. Darling , who always made much of his rôle as an old soldier , to use his position to find out what he could ; but he could find nothing . |
| 26 | Exactly a week later I suddenly went to Oxford by the most impossible train which stopped at every station . |
| 27 | ‘ Tell me later what really happened to you last night . |
| 28 | In my spare time and during vacations , between 1976 and 1978 , I set up what later came to be called the Standing Conference of Asian Youth Organizations . |
| 29 | I had ceased to be good at the convent , and now I also ceased to be either healthy or clever . |
| 30 | Mm I had to go back it suddenly occurred to me I 've got the back door key but it might still have been bolted . |