Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I reached the flat just after so helped her carry clean sheets and towels upstairs as well as my luggage and B. The two bedrooms in the flat are small — ‘ compact ’ in estate agency jargon I expect ! — and the bathroom is very nice with a washing machine in it .
2 Ma was always at her most unreasonable on do-days , and I must have known it was a do-day because not only did we have extra help in the house , but Nanny had been co-opted into the kitchen to make pastry .
3 Their resources were considerable ; not only did they have vast incomes from taxation and from their own estates , but also they could expect considerable quantities of tribute from the subject peoples east of the Rhine and elsewhere .
4 Not only did it contain riveting performances from David Threlfall and our own Adrian Dunbar , it also delivered a fast-moving plot involving more twists than Chubby Checker .
5 Not only did he do stupendous work in many areas of pure mathematics but he also devoted much time to probability , theory of errors , geodesy , mechanics , electromagnetism , optics and even actuarial science !
6 So did you get extra coupons if you were getting married or were you just expected to make do ?
7 It just made you ask different sorts of questions .
8 Just told her to take light clothes . ’
9 He just knew he had cheap labour .
10 Sky TV yesterday announced they have exclusive rights to show his championship challenge and , if successful , his first defence .
11 I remember terrible arguments when shopping for shoes — I wanted to have fashion shoes ( high heels , pointed toes ) like my friends , but Mum always made me have sensible shoes .
12 But Yorath concentrated on Saunders ' form for Aston Villa , saying : ‘ I always felt he got unjust criticism at Liverpool .
13 You know , I always thought they put anti-bonk pills in the coffee .
14 Spenser certainly found ready contemporary imitators , most noticeably among fellow poets such as Barnabe Rich or Sir John Davies whose interest in Irish affairs also provoked them to write political tracts .
15 Almost the last of the gifted amateurs to hold their own among scientific professionals , his considerable intellect also allowed him to provide clear analysis of administrative problems , which he tackled in conciliatory style .
16 He also urged them to remember Tory supporters living overseas at the next election .
17 Having to tackle procedures restricted by legislation also forced us to apply political theories to practical realities without too much compromise .
18 Roughly translated it means new beginnings — it dates back to the thirteenth century and confers a purely honourary degree — something to put in a ’ Who 's Who ’ entry .
19 Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) .
20 They complained that the Law of Similars often obliged them to use overpriced components , handicapping their products in world markets .
21 John Goldthorpe and his associates followed up these arguments in 1962 with a study of affluent workers in the car industry : how far had they become middle class in their behaviours and attitudes , with increased spending power ?
22 Once I even caught him buying tinned sardines — with all that fresh fish in the sea ! ’
23 The inquest into her death today heard she suffered acute brain damage and a fractured skull .
24 How well did you know Sabine Jourdain ? ’
25 ‘ How well did you know Froggy Davies ? ’ the Inspector asked .
26 Each one of us was beckoned over to have a go when it was my turn I rushed over and put the tanks on I then submerged It felt strange breathing under water like a fish the bubble emitted from the regulator trickled up the side of my face .
27 Among the West Saxons it may be that it was Aethelbald 's support which enabled Aethelheard to defeat the aetheling , Oswald , and that this established both Aethelheard and his brother , Cuthred , who subsequently succeeded Aethelheard in 739 , as Aethelbald 's dependants or at least obliged them to make territorial concessions .
28 He therefore ruled that Reagan should testify , but rejected a request that he should appear in person , and instead allowed him to give videotaped evidence .
29 While this might have been expected , neither did it explore alternative ways of allowing mineworkers to use its educational resources .
30 But if the project 's scientists — and the intellectual giants who ran Britain 's nuclear programme at the time — were n't all that sure about the measurements , why did they call large press conferences ( on 23 January , 1958 ) and flood the scientific press with detailed descriptions of the work ?
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