Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Not only did they disclaim any career but motherhood , they even began to question the need for the higher education itself . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 … ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I only did it to impress that lot . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | How long did you say these tapes are ? |
| 13 | How long did it take one man . |
| 14 | I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that |
| 15 | So did you do any singing when you came here first ? |
| 16 | So did you pass this information . |
| 17 | So did you get extra coupons if you were getting married or were you just expected to make do ? |
| 18 | So did you enjoy that film at the pictures then ? |
| 19 | So did you enjoy that custard ? |
| 20 | D s So did you notice any sort of class differences within the school ? |
| 21 | Erm , so did you have any friends when on the estate at first ? |
| 22 | Not only had I had three months reprieve , but there had been no confrontation over any further treatment . |
| 23 | What she say , thanks to you lot so wondered he survived this lot . |
| 24 | It just made you ask different sorts of questions . |
| 25 | Just told her to take light clothes . ’ |
| 26 | Life had given him very little , just taught him to snatch any opportunities that came his way and use them to his advantage . |
| 27 | He just knew he had cheap labour . |
| 28 | They just , they just did it to raise some funds , I ca n't remember why they did it . |
| 29 | No sooner had I completed this act of , shall we say , mercy , than a wonderful feeling of peace and calm came over me . |
| 30 | Sky TV yesterday announced they have exclusive rights to show his championship challenge and , if successful , his first defence . |