Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Not only did they disclaim any career but motherhood , they even began to question the need for the higher education itself . |
| 4 | 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 … ? |
| 5 | I only did it to impress that lot . |
| 6 | How long did you say these tapes are ? |
| 7 | I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that |
| 8 | So did you do any singing when you came here first ? |
| 9 | So did you pass this information . |
| 10 | So did you enjoy that film at the pictures then ? |
| 11 | So did you enjoy that custard ? |
| 12 | D s So did you notice any sort of class differences within the school ? |
| 13 | Erm , so did you have any friends when on the estate at first ? |
| 14 | What she say , thanks to you lot so wondered he survived this lot . |
| 15 | Life had given him very little , just taught him to snatch any opportunities that came his way and use them to his advantage . |
| 16 | They just , they just did it to raise some funds , I ca n't remember why they did it . |
| 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 | Erik Hazelhoft-Roelfzema was accepted eventually , hut I still felt he wanted more experience . |
| 20 | You remember you always thought he had some secret . ’ |
| 21 | I once saw someone turn this situation to his advantage . |
| 22 | Only once did I get some money after a gig . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Not once had she made any attempt to respond to his initiatives . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | All member countries except the UK also committed themselves to translate this commitment into law . |
| 29 | It also encouraged them to resist any change whatever in local institutions or in elections for community representation , except with the specific approval of the Jordanian government and the PLO itself . |
| 30 | ‘ I nearly killed myself carrying those things home ’ . |