Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is evident that no blame was felt to attach to Vlasov for his part in the battle , since on 11 November Stalin personally appointed him to command 20th Army , entrusting him with 15 precious tanks and a vital role under Zhukov in the planned defence of Moscow . |
| 2 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Not only did they disclaim any career but motherhood , they even began to question the need for the higher education itself . |
| 5 | Not only did she have that reporter to cope with in the morning , but if those rumours about the Russians planning to dump some of their copper stocks on the London market were true … ? |
| 6 | I only did it to impress that lot . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | How long did it take one man . |
| 9 | I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that |
| 10 | So did you do any singing when you came here first ? |
| 11 | So did you pass this information . |
| 12 | So did you enjoy that film at the pictures then ? |
| 13 | So did you enjoy that custard ? |
| 14 | D s So did you notice any sort of class differences within the school ? |
| 15 | What she say , thanks to you lot so wondered he survived this lot . |
| 16 | He just knew he had cheap labour . |
| 17 | No sooner had I completed this act of , shall we say , mercy , than a wonderful feeling of peace and calm came over me . |
| 18 | When W. H. Auden once found him playing that game and asked him why he seemed to relish it , he reflected gravely and then replied , " Well , I suppose it 's the nearest thing to being dead " . |
| 19 | But Yorath concentrated on Saunders ' form for Aston Villa , saying : ‘ I always felt he got unjust criticism at Liverpool . |
| 20 | Erik Hazelhoft-Roelfzema was accepted eventually , hut I still felt he wanted more experience . |
| 21 | You remember you always thought he had some secret . ’ |
| 22 | I once saw someone turn this situation to his advantage . |
| 23 | Only once did I get some money after a gig . |
| 24 | Her skin was still lightly tanned from the summer , her thick dark eyelashes did n't need mascara to give them extra body , and the blue of her eyes and the dusky pink of her lips usually gave her face enough colour . |
| 25 | Not once had she made any attempt to respond to his initiatives . |
| 26 | the employer tendency to favour the industry-type of bargaining was reinforced by the broad socialist , class consciousness of major European unions which probably led them to favour this approach , since it would engage ‘ employers through mass class action ’ , and also extend protection to a larger part of the workforce . |
| 27 | Ill health later led him to spend some time in the Bristol area , where he cemented his friendship with William Wordsworth [ q.v. ] , whom he met in 1795 at a gathering of radical friends ( who included George Dyer , William Frend , William Godwin , and John Horne Tooke , qq.v . ) . |
| 28 | As the denomination most solidly based in the countryside , they also realized they had little choice in the thousands of new streets with their red and yellow brick terraces that were covering England 's acres . |
| 29 | All member countries except the UK also committed themselves to translate this commitment into law . |
| 30 | 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 . |