Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway — ’ She looked down on her partly eaten meal and her nose wrinkled before she went on , ‘ I 've got to go downstairs again , and you 'd better clear away here when you 've finished , then go into Mother and see if you can soothe her ruffled feathers . |
| 2 | ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 4 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 5 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 6 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 7 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 8 | You had better go home now before it gets too late . |
| 9 | Trouble is , I do n't know what he 'd do - " He broke off suddenly and turned his head away , whispering , " My father , my father , my father … " in a way so bitter and desperate that she turned to him and held him ; and although they had already stayed far longer than on previous nights , she had a sudden foreboding of events , so that she needed to love him again , now ; and a little while later , without thinking of the danger , she cried out with the joy of him : a single shriek in the night that echoed in the trees below the house and was followed by a strange , almost tangible silence . |
| 10 | Negotiations were conducted in great secrecy when the manuscripts had already got as far as the freeport in Zurich and were being examined by two well backed dealers and by representatives of the Getty Museum . |
| 11 | But when I saw it tonight I had just struggled as far as the road . |
| 12 | These had always done quite well as buses were not then allowed on Anerley Hill . |
| 13 | The revolution in glasshouses had surely started rather earlier than that with the radical design built in 1820 by W&D Bailey of Holborn for Lady Rolle at Bicton in Devon . |
| 14 | Potrovsky had waxed and polished the car the night before and had even gone as far as to iron the two pennants which flew on either side of the bonnet . |
| 15 | In the second half of the nineteenth century such sentiments had fostered the growth of a small but vigorous school of Siberian regionalist writers and political activists ( oblastniki ) , some of whom had even gone so far as to envisage the complete political separation of Siberia from Russia and the establishment of a new , independent Siberian republic . |
| 16 | by no means ‘ lightly advancing thro ’ her star-trimm 'd crowd' — he had even gone so far as to look up Lantor 's lines about Ianthe — but perhaps women could n't be expected always to live up to what poets wrote about them . |
| 17 | One bar had even gone so far as to put a few tables outside , and on impulse Zen settled down to enjoy the sunlight and watch the show on the Corso . |
| 18 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 19 | From one fairly typical grammar school , studied by Colin Lacey , the fee-payers had almost disappeared as early as 1925 . |
| 20 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |