Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 But Community Care can reveal how she so easily fell prey to her son and lost almost everything .
32 Yet for the growth of the later strident and vigorous anticlericalism , the self-consciousness of the laity was a prerequisite , and on a national scale it is by no means certain that this lay identity would have come about so forcefully or so quickly had parliament not been ready to hand as a vehicle in which to rally hostility and an instrument by which to further it .
33 The news went unreported in the Press , so quickly had Chapman become football 's forgotten man .
34 And the NZRFU councillors who so quickly criticised South Africa must hope that none of the leading New Zealand players show positive on drug-testing — if and when that is introduced as thoroughly as New Zealand require from South Africa .
35 I only once heard Tom complain bitterly about George .
36 Only once did Norwich break their stranglehold , midway through the first-half , when John Polston moved up to rattle a post .
37 Only once did Norwich break their stranglehold , midway through the first-half , when John Polston moved up to rattle a post .
38 Only once did Kinnock appear out of his separate cabin in the leader 's aircraft in order to talk to reporters , and that was when he thanked them for a birthday card .
39 Only once did Tess try to get closer to her husband .
40 Publicly at least , Hogan — now an octogenarian — only once gave tongue to that exultant ‘ I 've got it ! ’ claim .
41 Bath had a good long look at the videos and soon saw that little variations of this move could break opposition defences just as easily as the blasting back-row scrum moves with which Australia had devastated England when they so mistakenly toured Australia last year .
42 The more time he spent with Jeopardy , the more he realised Jeopardy only ever saw people as extensions of his work .
43 We only ever had cream of mushroom .
44 ‘ So many people have said to me over the years that it is very sad I never bore Norman a child , that I only ever had stepchildren to love .
45 I only ever burgled shops .
46 The hiring firm were very affronted when rung up , and assured the film company that they only ever supplied blanks .
47 ‘ I only ever loved Luke , ’ Susan said .
48 I only ever loved Luke .
49 He only ever did things he needed to do , and someone as economical with their emotions as that was not good lifetime material .
50 Surely they must have some doubts , made some mental reservations to the creed they so confidently recited morning and night .
51 Ready also launched SNX , a set of network executives supporting multifarious protocols including TCP/IP , FDDI , SNMP , SLIP , ARP , Ethernet , Telnet and FTP .
52 Ready also launched SNX , a set of network executives which support multifarious protocols including TCP/IP , FDDI , SNMP , SLIP , ARP , Ethernet , Telnet and FTP .
53 Only later did Oliver Michaels come back with the sobering news that the hotel was strangely full of policemen , that there was no breakfast to be had save for coffee and muffins , without a trek to the Albion Hotel , and moreover there was thought to be something odd about Sir Thomas 's death which no one would specify .
54 Only later did Sukarno reveal the full venom of his animosity ( ‘ While I was taking hammer blows on the head his entire underground effort can be summed up by saying he sat quietly and safely away somewhere listening to a clandestine radio ’ ) .
55 The craze hit Dallas in 1907 and it was observed that the first audiences were made up of women and children ; only later did men follow .
56 These will be large embanked areas , only half to one metre ( two or three feet ) above the road in most cases , with rounded corners and perhaps slightly hollowed centres .
57 Only much later did riot police intervene to disperse the protesters .
58 So far had music come in the sixteen years since Palestrina 's death .
59 It is worth recalling that on the eve of the French Revolution the French peasant 's expectancy is thought to have been rather below that of the Indian in 1881 ; so far had Europe already come in the ninety years before 1880 .
60 In America the first so far discovered dates from 1674 , but the most prized plates , e.g. those of Washington and Paul Revere , occur a hundred years afterwards .
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