Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He last tasted success as long ago as last January in the Asian Open . |
| 2 | The central irony of the courtroom crusade — what might be termed " the Spycatcher effect " — is always present : seek to suppress a book by legal action because it tends to corrupt , and the publicity attendant upon its trial will spread that assumed corruption far more effectively than its quiet distribution . |
| 3 | Either he loved Kirsty less than she had given him credit for , or he hated Shiona even more fiercely than she had ever suspected . |
| 4 | In Uruguay a junta that fought subversion almost as brutally as Argentina 's collapsed under its own disagreements in 1984 . |
| 5 | ‘ He killed Robin just as surely as he murdered Marion . |
| 6 | As the days passed I might have been telling him the truth , for I lost weight far more successfully than on any diet I have ever attempted . |
| 7 | I mean dammit , there are people in the House of Lords who started life far worse off than John Major , I am sure , so , you know , what do you mean by class ? |
| 8 | Of course there were plenty of foreign films that peddled sex much more effectively than Hollywood , but it was risky to resort to the Continental X-port market . |
| 9 | The first recorded game took place as far back as 1851 with a match between Oporton and Lisbon . |
| 10 | As Jaq questioned Meh'Lindi yet again so as to compare her impressions with his , a sickening realization about the probable nature of the hydra dawned on him . |
| 11 | In 1934 , P & O , Cunard , Blue Star , Orient and Royal Mail took passengers as far afield as Japan , Australia , and Hawaii . |
| 12 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |
| 13 | We had horses again well maybe when you were a baby . |
| 14 | The luxurious nature of the palace complex , of which this is thought to be only a wing , together with its spectacular position , led archaeologists as far back as 1976 to speculate that this was one of Herod 's palaces . |
| 15 | It gradually rose to my left , but remained level ahead as far as distant , hazy mountains . |