Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [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 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Just told her to take light clothes . ’ |
| 10 | He just knew he had cheap labour . |
| 11 | Sky TV yesterday announced they have exclusive rights to show his championship challenge and , if successful , his first defence . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But Yorath concentrated on Saunders ' form for Aston Villa , saying : ‘ I always felt he got unjust criticism at Liverpool . |
| 14 | You know , I always thought they put anti-bonk pills in the coffee . |
| 15 | IBM also found itself confronting new alliances , such as DEC and Apple . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He also urged them to remember Tory supporters living overseas at the next election . |
| 19 | Having to tackle procedures restricted by legislation also forced us to apply political theories to practical realities without too much compromise . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | October is the cocktail month in Washington ; the British embassy can be throwing three parties a week , and with the Liaison Office 's yen to keep Maxim busy , he inevitably found himself sipping deep-frozen Scotch with a wing-commander from the Office . |
| 22 | The demand for tuition in mathematics fluctuated so Smith often found himself teaching other subjects such as classics , theology and philosophy . |
| 23 | We 'd been warned to bring thick clothing but now found ourselves stuffing woolly hats into pockets and loosening scarves . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | If we really knew what caused actual cases of electrical breakdown or even simple cracking in plastic articles , we might save much frustration , and economic waste in the way of articles sent back . |
| 26 | They complained that the Law of Similars often obliged them to use overpriced components , handicapping their products in world markets . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | Once I even caught him buying tinned sardines — with all that fresh fish in the sea ! ’ |
| 29 | The inquest into her death today heard she suffered acute brain damage and a fractured skull . |
| 30 | How well did you know Sabine Jourdain ? ’ |