Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've always wished that I never came back to this country . |
| 2 | His financial transactions extended throughout the eastern counties , and although the bulk of his fortune almost certainly came from moneylending , his six houses in King 's Lynn and the quay attached to his own stone house in Norwich suggest that he also had interests in trade . |
| 3 | Cole adds that what actually happened when the Pioneers engaged in production was not what they had intended when they started their co-operative ; and goes on to offer a more detailed explanation : The Rochdale Manufacturing Society was set up in 1854 , Supposing that , as an expression of democracy , Co-operative principles are as valid for the producer working in the factory producing goods for sale in the Co-operative store as they are for the consumer buying them there , a newcomer to the story might find it surprising that the Pioneers ' belief is presented , if not itself as a matter for surprise , then certainly one for explanation . |
| 4 | Nevertheless it may be said that Elizabeth Taylor was more often at her best in each successive collection of stories , though I do not know that she ever surpassed the brilliant study of deception in the title story of A Dedicated Man . |
| 5 | Instead , she let him know that she never took guys home on a first date . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you know that he also saved my life at the very time we met ? ’ |
| 7 | However , he did know that he nearly died at the time of his peritonitis operation , and so it was easy to convince him that it would take quite a time before he was really strong again . |
| 8 | Do we even know that he ever reached Turkey ? |
| 9 | They still had more right than she did to own anything her father had left , but she desperately wanted something , something to be able to look at , something to let her know that he really had existed and that he had needed her after all . |
| 10 | I was flooded with joy , and all at once it seemed the most important thing in the world that he should know that I still loved him , too . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't know that I ever 'ad one , the orphanage never said I did , but they did say me birthday was December the second , and that I was born in 1889 . ’ |
| 12 | Count Hubner thought that the Empress was ‘ more beautiful than ever ’ , and Lord Cowley , the English ambassador , said : ‘ I do not know that I ever witnessed a finer sight than the baptismal ceremonies . ’ |
| 13 | erm , and erm , I do n't know that I ever did this , but I never heard anybody heard anybody walking the street , whistling the National Anthem . |
| 14 | Do you know that I once beat Ulrike Meyfarth ! ’ |
| 15 | The hon. and learned Gentleman will know that I recently had the privilege of giving the Sir George Bean memorial lecture in which I set out in some detail to the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women the basis for my approach to such matters . |
| 16 | He is all the better as a witness , since one can not doubt that he genuinely sought instruction . |
| 17 | At least the British players demonstrated that they fully deserved to be on the same court — much against many people 's expectations . |
| 18 | Labour was utilised more efficiently , and as well as being mindful of his employer 's interests , Barratt demonstrated that he also had a care for his workmen . |
| 19 | It seemed to me that it was not only natural but positive : it demonstrated that he still had a relationship with God . |
| 20 | This would never yield anything like a reduction of one to the other , but Carnap supposes that it still allowed us to claim that the concept of a material object could be reduced to ‘ autopsychological concepts ’ , those which concern the nature of one 's own sensory states . |
| 21 | These economists were ready to accept that there probably did exist a particular unemployment rate at which inflation was neither rising nor falling but they were unwilling to associate this rate with a state of overall full employment . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 23 | It arrived at his desk , as he had privately hoped , simply because he was the long-stop for security/intelligence matters that nobody else wanted to field . |
| 24 | The voiders lingered by the body , however , bright enough to know that they still had some duty to perform with it . |
| 25 | However , in the social context of heroin use in a given community , it is just as important to understand how events are perceived by the participants as to know that they actually happened . |
| 26 | it made eating and doing a little more exciting to know that someone else had just ceased doing these basic human things for ever . |
| 27 | He would have liked to know that you still came to see me . |
| 28 | Readers from last month will be glad to know that I finally tracked down the elusive Tequila based Marguerita in a Tex-Mex cafe in Covent Garden . |
| 29 | I thought it might be drugged so I only pretended to drink it , putting the cup to my lips and setting it down again full after an interval . |
| 30 | A few minutes later he 's explaining that he recently left his agent at the powerful Creative Artists Agency so that , unlike almost everyone else in Hollywood , he would n't have to hand over ten per cent of everything he earned . |