Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles explained that he 'd come round in answer to a complaint and rather thankfully began to pass on apologies on behalf of the Regiment for transmission to Lord Southdown later , but the butler shook his head regretfully once more , indicated that Lady Charity was at home , and felt certain that she would deal with the matter . |
| 2 | Philip Larkin began as a poet in the tradition of W. B. Yeats , and only slowly came to see that Thomas Hardy , not Yeats , was to be his poetic master . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was selfish of me , I so badly wanted to put a live baby into Celia 's arms — ’ Her mouth quivered slightly and she turned away . |
| 4 | Sometimes I understood a few words or phrases ( ‘ Japaner nicht gut ’ , ‘ Demokratie ’ ) but on the whole it was a hopeless conversation just because he so badly wanted to get his meaning across to me . |
| 5 | Without any apparent break in the text and without any change of tone in my voice I got out some of the things I so badly needed to tell you . |
| 6 | Furthermore , although the chronicler was well informed , and has something to offer on events in Mercia and Northumbria , he seems to have known most , or perhaps merely wished to say most , about what happened in southern England and East Anglia . |
| 7 | But so much seemed to have changed … and Joe would make a much better ally than an enemy , if only he could accept the situation as it stood . |
| 8 | For all his long hair , bandeau and earrings which made him look like a weedy Viking , Terry Gill was a very ordinary young man , and pathetic ; pathetic because he so obviously wanted to amount to something and had no idea what . |
| 9 | She so desperately wanted to know what was going to happen when she returned . |
| 10 | She was so afraid of losing this heaven-sent opportunity , yet she did n't know how to ask the question she so desperately needed to ask . |
| 11 | As for Lucinda 's birth — she still shuddered just to think of it , and she had prayed that the next one would produce the son she so desperately needed to enable her to call a halt to the whole disagreeable business . |
| 12 | I only just managed to get it down before bolting from the tent just in time to get rid of the contents of my stomach . |
| 13 | I only just managed to get back to our house before collapsing into bed . |
| 14 | Apart from Brooke , an obscure little house , all that survived of the medieval foundations of Rutland was the hospital , or almshouse , at Oakham , which only had goods worth 40s. : clearly its income of 20 marks only just sufficed to maintain the twelve poor inmates : Warden Gunby was no Septimus Harding . |
| 15 | I only just remembered to put some clothes on . |
| 16 | As it turned out , we only once failed to find wild cocoa in all the areas we visited throughout the region . |
| 17 | He never left our shores and he only once ventured to cross the border into Scotland . |
| 18 | But as historians they were more concerned with the past than the present , so they only gradually came to realize that the two were in many ways inseparable : both that remembering itself could be a help to the present lives of those telling their story , and also that the memory could be profoundly shaped by subsequent experience and this needed to be known to interpret it more effectively . |
| 19 | Of course it only gradually came to mean all this to me through the succeeding years , through my memory of it . |
| 20 | I was a bit disappointed to hear this , I 'd have loved to have heard him say ( on a channel largely watched by scum ) ‘ I only ever wanted to play for Leeds ’ . |
| 21 | Still the reality he so urgently wanted to communicate seemed to escape him , as if he was distracted by a voice whispering in his ear of what might have been , if only Kee had said yes . |
| 22 | My brother , sister and I have made lots of friends whilst we have been down there , but it only really started to fascinate us from about 2 or 3 years ago , before then we had just been interested in swimming , going into the amusements and going to the beach etc . |
| 23 | I mean , I only really wanted to dry me towels , because I hate having to run out laun launderette while I 'm drying all me other clothes on radiators . |
| 24 | I went off him a lot when he made out he was really eager to get to Blackburn and ‘ only really wanted to play for one club ’ , but you ca n't really blame him for wanting to be filthy rich . |
| 25 | Or could a third party claim that it had never indicated dissent and only now wished to exercise the right ? |
| 26 | Only in 1532 did he alight on the policy of the royal supremacy : the idea that the English monarchy had enjoyed an unlimited authority over the church within its realm for centuries and only now needed to start exercising this on a more regular basis . |
| 27 | She had left him , just as she so often threatened to do . |
| 28 | It was less worry than the lethargy which so often seemed to overcome him . |
| 29 | Tom laughed , of course , and she did n't know if she was pleased or angered that he so often seemed to find her so amusing . |
| 30 | So I rang Paul and er he 's coming up tomorrow , he would have come in today had to go to but he 's coming in the morning to look at it . |