Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 2 | It was n't to take revenge on Kee that he wanted a woman — a want he now confessed to Theo . |
| 3 | First to go was a rather nervous Richard Crout with Jesse , a 1908 steam roller , belching out smoke he gingerly took to the roads . |
| 4 | The prosecution allege he then drove to Catterick Bridge and was sexually frustrated when he saw Mrs Chandler at about 10.45am . |
| 5 | Look what nearly happened to me . ’ |
| 6 | Well direct sales you you know I always tried to sort of stay away from companies that you know had a reputation for that . |
| 7 | She 's sitting down with her back to me , just like she always used to , and I 'm brushing slow and gentle , making her hair nice and neat . |
| 8 | I would like to record that they tried to cheer each other up in their double misery , but I 'm afraid the truth is that as far as I know they never spoke to each other again . |
| 9 | You know he only went to he only went for a pee you know what I mean that cramming five pound and ten pound deals at him , and he 's going , No you can , you know . |
| 10 | But it helps even more if we understand what his purpose is , which is in the next verse : ‘ Those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son , that he might be the firstborn among many brothers . ’ |
| 11 | Wait till you hear what fucking happened to us on Sunday , |
| 12 | Elizabeth 's friend Maud must have said something of this sort , for I find I once wrote to her : ‘ Maud was right , I think . |
| 13 | I guess I just wanted to be seen at that point . |
| 14 | The second category , overall impression , involves listening to all the adjectives describing the person and thereby forming an overall impression ; ‘ [ I ] assessed the overall impression left once all the words had been read out ’ or ‘ I was not conscious of using any strategy in particular at the time , but I guess I merely listened to all the traits and tried to gain an overall impression . ’ |
| 15 | You mean they really tried to … ’ |
| 16 | For example if you go back to say Queen Victoria and Queen Mary and one of my former bosses was a godchild of Queen Mary and I mean he simply said to me talking not long ago about one of the nobody i people did n't behave like that at court so they 've really asked for everything they 've got . |
| 17 | It 's a it 's a very bold thing of Toby Baldwin to run him in this race it seems to me , you know I mean he definitely appeared to not like . |
| 18 | ‘ I think I just proposed to you in front of most of Great Britain . ’ |
| 19 | If this were so , I think she too capitulated to Flora . |
| 20 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 21 | Do you ever got to church ? |
| 22 | I think we actually said to him : ‘ Chris — you 're off the project ’ , ’ said Gedge . |
| 23 | It is gross waste that a man with such qualities should be turned into a traitor , when I think he never willed to be any such monster , but wanted only his native right . |
| 24 | I was profoundly relieved when the law was relaxed in 1967 , but I think it just added to Hugh 's problems . |
| 25 | It is little wonder that this figure cast what almost amounted to a spell over aspiring black sportsmen . |
| 26 | Well we 've we only went to the if you like the training session of the er erm participants yesterday and we 've got our next meeting on the 22nd February that I 've invited you to at . |