Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 I only discovered that late as well when I became friends with John at college .
2 I said ooh cos I said when I come here we 're always so busy I said I only get as far as er er the kitchen do n't I ?
3 Oxford 's nothing to do with it , tho — I only ended up here cos I failed my A levels ( long story ) .
4 I left early before the nuns were awake but I only got as far as Glasgow before I lost my way . ’
5 I just hung grimly on because the salary was magnificent .
6 I just screamed as loudly as I could — more from the shock than anything else , and I did n't stop crying for several hours afterwards .
7 well it got just eased of a little bit and I thought oh well I 'd make it , so I hopped up to get me erm pension erm and I just got down here when it started again and I came around the front from there and I came around the front I was soaking
8 Will and I still went around together when we could .
9 it comes to a point sometimes , I mean I even noticed then like when they 're wearing all your clothes right ?
10 I actually won quite easily when I expected that I 'd still have a lot to learn , ’ he explains .
11 I never got as far as the wedding , Mum , but it was unlucky , was n't it ? ’
12 I never got as far as his nose .
13 I never got as far as the meat inspector , actually … just saw one of the slaughtermen "
14 I never went no further than you are now , all I come for was my little secateurs , and they were on the shelf here inside the door .
15 My father wished me to try for a history scholarship and I occasionally read as hard as it was possible to do without any interest in history beyond the attempt to memorize facts … .
16 Many of them just lie there helplessly until somebody manhandles them over the side of the boat .
17 I heard hoof beats and opened one eye to see my attackers run back into the trees , two of them not moving as quickly as they would want .
18 So to impress him I told him briefly of the four stages of polio — first the porodomal , second the muscle pain , then the period of muscle destruction which usually took no longer than fourteen days , and finally the period of repair .
19 White Pudding , which also went round faster than the previous record , clocking 31.18 secs , is drawn in box four and the main danger to Kildare Slippy tomorrow could come from Run on King , which has been favourably allocated trap one .
20 In the spring parliament of 1340 the commons offered a grant of tax subject to conditions which now went much further than the concessions they had sought in the previous year and which were reminiscent of the concerns of the Ordainers in 1310–11 .
21 Even in the relegation season the attendance averages were above 18,000 ( unlike those at Roker Park which frequently drop even quicker than did Marco Gabbiadini 's reputation at Crystal Palace ) .
22 Wisby and Hasler actually plugged the noses of their salmon , which then homed less accurately than untreated controls ( Table 4.1 ) ; in more recent experiments , the same result has been obtained by cutting the salmon 's olfactory nerves .
23 Now when somebody else stood up here if somebody had totally dried up or been so nervous they could n't do it what would you have felt .
24 There are several circles called ‘ Nine Maidens ’ or ‘ Nine Stones ’ , which actually possess considerably more than nine stones .
25 She ought to unpack , but she only got as far as getting out Ricky 's photograph in its blue silk frame and putting it beside the bed .
26 But when he said , we thought it would be a good idea , we took a Ali erm , erm mum took Alex over to Craigmiller Park , and we thought it would be a good idea if she just stayed there overnight because if she wa if she 's escaped it by , you know , tomorrow then she should really you know , be safe and , and
27 It 's she never attempted to go she just wandered all round till she met me
28 She nearly ran up again when the milling throngs of people in the hallway below turned as if drilled by some invisible sergeant and stared at her .
29 You probably do n't now as it is .
30 In the centre and west , in Croatia and Slovenia , the military frontier held , but throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these areas were the victims of frequent raids by marauding bands of Turks , who even penetrated as far as Graz .
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