Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Next thing we were playing support on a Mary Black tour and from doing folk club gigs for maybe 100 customers I suddenly found myself doing 20 nights in a row in front of 2,000 people or more . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This life-principle was very important to the early alchemists : they saw it as so real that , not only did they consider all entities to be made up of differing proportions of dead matter and life force ( spirit ) , they tried to use the spirit as , in essence , just one more chemical . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | How long did you say these tapes are ? |
| 7 | So did you get extra coupons if you were getting married or were you just expected to make do ? |
| 8 | Erm , so did you have any friends when on the estate at first ? |
| 9 | Not only had I had three months reprieve , but there had been no confrontation over any further treatment . |
| 10 | It just made you ask different sorts of questions . |
| 11 | The renowned original intention of the COS was to organize charity , but it soon found itself investigating individual cases , and as a result developed a casework methodology , the fundamentals of which were home-visiting , comprehensive and in-depth interviewing , written records , committee discussions , emphasis on ‘ character ’ as well as circumstances , preservation of family respectability , and , generally applicable , a ‘ carefully specified procedure ’ . |
| 12 | Just told her to take light clothes . ’ |
| 13 | Life had given him very little , just taught him to snatch any opportunities that came his way and use them to his advantage . |
| 14 | They just , they just did it to raise some funds , I ca n't remember why they did it . |
| 15 | Sky TV yesterday announced they have exclusive rights to show his championship challenge and , if successful , his first defence . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You know , I always thought they put anti-bonk pills in the coffee . |
| 18 | Another grandfather , a retired Manchester newsagent , would light the fires , mend shoes , and peel the potatoes , while in a south London stableman 's home the grandfather would clean the shoes and cook too — ‘ We always said we had two mothers and two fathers , always . ’ |
| 19 | Charlton 's excellent win still left them needing two victories from their last to games to be certain of left a play-off place . |
| 20 | IBM also found itself confronting new alliances , such as DEC and Apple . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The nurses also encouraged him to drink 1 litres of fluid a day and gave him steam inhalations every 4 hours . |
| 23 | ‘ I nearly killed myself carrying those things home ’ . |
| 24 | Wirral magistrates made a 12-month probation order and also ordered him to serve 100 hours ' community work . |
| 25 | He also urged them to remember Tory supporters living overseas at the next election . |
| 26 | It also required them to disclose any commissions they earn to the client — guaranteeing a more difficult sale . |
| 27 | Having to tackle procedures restricted by legislation also forced us to apply political theories to practical realities without too much compromise . |
| 28 | Zenith also said it sold 500,000 shares of newly issued common to institutional investors for whom Crabbe Huson Co of Portland , Oregon serves as investment advisor . |
| 29 | As he slowly revolved he observed all points of the compass with eyes wide in wonder . |
| 30 | 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 . |