Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | only got thirty bob left . |
| 2 | Well the total is always three sixty all the way round but was this when you had a million pound pocket money or when you only got four pence a week . |
| 3 | That was an enormous transformation from the world where you only met gay people at specific times of day in specific places under specific circumstances . |
| 4 | Wales only added another £150,000 , but the operation was still an overall success . |
| 5 | And the case springs from a fake painting which Mrs Marcos claimed was a Michelangelo and for which she apparently paid Bellini $3.5 million in 1983 . |
| 6 | We were sharing a two-bedroomed council house with my Pop , and although we only paid thirty bob towards the rent , we had two kids and Malc was earning just £4.10.0 a week as a butcher . |
| 7 | Every one of us knows from personal experience , for example on dark nights , that there is an insensibly graded continuous series running all the way from total blindness up to perfect vision , and that every step along this series confers significant benefits . |
| 8 | The prospect of the hill above their homes being dominated by a 100ft tower so appauled local people , the first ever public planning inquiry was convened . |
| 9 | Yakovlev devotes loving attention to the single , insignificant sovkhoz ( state farm ) in the whole area , although it only employed eleven people . |
| 10 | No doubt people reckoned that they only needed one pair of sheets , but they were wrong . |
| 11 | Yeah , he only shoved ten pence in to tell me about that giro . |
| 12 | They did do them in white , but they do n't seem to have them here , I only saw one pair , they were n't my size the other day . |
| 13 | Not only did some people continue to read their newspapers , but others actually gathered to watch ! |
| 14 | So did decorative works and portraits of children : small , elegant eighteenth- and nineteenth-century watercolours by artists such as Huet and Granet at Galerie du Carrousel or Eugene Isabey and Felix Xiem with Brame et Lorenceau soon found buyers . |
| 15 | So did older people . |
| 16 | More police arrived but so did more people , constantly . ’ |
| 17 | But all this is a different story , for the bomber aircrews not only had better aircraft to take the war to Berlin , they had better navigational aids , better weaponry , the Pathfinder Force , radio counter-measures , better planning and a host of other factors to make them more effective . |
| 18 | Wells then only had 7500 people . |
| 19 | In 1766 Sutton personally inoculated 7,816 people . |
| 20 | The following year his talent for crowd control , grounded in his years as a Baptist preacher , was put to more commercial use when Cook personally conducted 1,673 people to a working-man 's demonstration in Paris . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , through fixed ages for the receipt of pensions , these reforms also forcibly prevented older people being productive members of the society and thereby reduced their social status . |
| 22 | And then you just got another pair and you put another pair like that until you had five . |
| 23 | D' you think when The Bomber came down it just killed twenty people and left the rest of us drinking Korn and singing fal-lal-lal ? |
| 24 | When he finally named seven people he was told he should be comforted by the fact that all of them were already under subpoena to appear . |
| 25 | I just burnt twenty quid on food and if I stay here to eat it I 'll take it out on them ! |
| 26 | At that time I already knew most species of birds that occurred in my village , at least a hundred . |
| 27 | Others had so mismanaged their own social work departments that they no longer had sufficient staff to fulfil their minimum statutory responsibilities to children at risk of abuse or to operate the Mental Health Act . |
| 28 | In class terms the peasants were identified as part of the rural petty bourgeoisie : generally speaking , not members of the proletariat because they usually owned some means of production to support themselves . |
| 29 | He always expected other people to clean up after him . |
| 30 | A further estimated 50 people were killed in a series of bomb explosions in Hyderabad on July 15 , and the Guardian of July 16 reported that about 3,000 people had been killed in communal violence in the province since 1985 . |