Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 'd said she was worried about her superiors , he 'd felt like telling her that he had her superiors right where he wanted them , but he could n't . |
| 2 | I knew that Ben was a good enough footballer to play effectively where we wanted him . ’ |
| 3 | ( Nothing to do with mice or holes but probably a corruption of the Cornish Moweshayl , young women 's river — perhaps where they did their washing . ) |
| 4 | And a call came over the radio that there was a problem with one of the pumps downstairs , so seeing I had nothing better to do at that time I went downstairs to give them a hand . |
| 5 | place of the All where she had her dwelling . |
| 6 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 7 | We decided to move the chairs out to make more room , but the acceptances kept coming in so we thought we 'd open the French windows and pray for a sunny day . ’ |
| 8 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 9 | Her father loved her so much that he gave her everything , and never scolded her . |
| 10 | John wrote these words : ‘ God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son , so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life . ’ |
| 11 | She had already known , half consciously , that she liked her grandmother better than she liked her mother , and loved her mother more fiercely than she loved her grandmother . |
| 12 | So once you got him into your fleshy arms — ’ |
| 13 | So once you found it |
| 14 | He and she were similar but he had a natural goodness which she lacked , and she did not want to claim aloud that she understood him because that , in itself , would lead to misunderstanding . |
| 15 | That said , the working environment in OS/2 is different enough that I found myself trying to unlearn the way I work at present and trying to use the system the way IBM meant it to be used . |
| 16 | It had been bad enough that he thought she was interested before this had happened . |
| 17 | Anecdotal stories show that Smith had often understood the subjects of other mathematicians ' researches better than they had themselves , but had not published because he saw further than they did , and realised that their results were special cases of a general theory not fully uncovered . |
| 18 | did better than they thought they would |
| 19 | Though it is mistaken to suppose that the British made no effort to leave the Masai better than they found them , it is clear that their potential emergence from the colonial period much as they had entered it was something their administrators could in the end accept with equanimity . |
| 20 | ‘ Your comment about him finding it difficult to live with the idea of someone being better than him forced me into a complete rethink . |
| 21 | Better than I thought it would be . |
| 22 | It knew better than I did what to do . |
| 23 | Her gown looked expensive , Ruth thought , but it would have suited her mistress better than it did its owner . |
| 24 | They would have understood his feelings , better than he did himself . |
| 25 | Faldo will never achieve the heights of Nicklaus ( will anyone ? ) , and he will probably never the win the affection of the golfing public , but he deserved better than you gave him . |
| 26 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 27 | She had already known , half consciously , that she liked her grandmother better than she liked her mother , and loved her mother more fiercely than she loved her grandmother . |
| 28 | And with that she stalked off , head held high , and it was only later when she calmed down that she realised he still thought Mick had stayed the night . |
| 29 | And I would n't even go in because I do n't think my dad 's making me go in except she kept me , and all behind because we did n't do our homework and she said right see me tomorrow , |
| 30 | So that we knew what pattern the tiles had been in . |