Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ted Drawbridge , FAP 's engine restorer extraordinaire passed away early this year . |
| 32 | ‘ All the things I told you about Petula … they applied just as much to a jealous dog as to a jealous woman . |
| 33 | He knew thanks were required but the effort of offering them and making a satisfactory excuse seemed altogether too much . |
| 34 | After this shattering denouement there seemed little more that could be done at Bonsmoulins . |
| 35 | His look as he glanced across at her resembled so much that of a shamefaced small boy that she found it hard to control a smile . |
| 36 | To understand de Gaulle 's monarchy , one must begin with the man himself , since he believed so firmly that policy should reflect an individual will rather than an ideology or a process of political bargaining . |
| 37 | Peter Phillips began this year to write a shrewd and passionate column on cricket for the London Spectator … settling into a back pew , [ he ] said , ‘ Oh , my word , England played so badly this year … ’ |
| 38 | Thus in countries where industrialisation and the establishment of the trade union movement came somewhat later this facilitated the organisation of industrial rather than craft unions and , in turn , often contributed to a strongly socialist influence over the labour movement . |
| 39 | Product wages probably accelerated only about half as much in the largest firms as in the smallest , thus facilitating the expansion of the former as the latter were knocked out . |
| 40 | She did n't mean to cry , but tears came so easily these days , and it was so difficult to stop . |
| 41 | During our last home match of last season , I thought the team played exceedingly well all things considered . |
| 42 | He provoked only slightly more suspicion with phone calls in his broad Belfast accent , asking for any old intelligence information , codes , ciphers , bugs , they might happen to have lying around . |
| 43 | Why for example is the profit on running a service station whittled away so much that by the time off-site costs are taken into account , the final profit is just one quarter of what it was ? |
| 44 | In the naked fear of falling in a space so huge that she did not know whether she was falling up or down , inward or outward , she met a fear so great that it burned away forever all the other fears . |
| 45 | The poor law , of course , came under yet another kind of authority , the boards of guardians , descendants of the former parish officials . |
| 46 | Even so , the Russians suffered possibly as many as 100,000 casualties and some 45,000 men taken prisoner ; they also forfeited 200 guns and great quantities of supplies and ammunition they could ill afford to lose . |
| 47 | Bill came home about half past one . |
| 48 | The fact that a man liable to army or militia service could almost always provide a substitute if he had the money to pay for one accentuated still further this inequality . |
| 49 | ‘ I played nearly as many games in a week for Leicester as I did in six years for Leeds , ’ he says . |
| 50 | The effects of the Volga famine were more disruptive and politically dangerous in another national minority area that had more ethnic pretensions , and above all suffered nearly as much from famine as the Great-Russian Volga provinces . |
| 51 | They make it very difficult for British firms to make acquisitions , especially hostile bids , and show the ‘ single market ’ to be in reality a very one-sided affair , pivoted far too much against British interests . |
| 52 | Standing small and shaky before that vast desk , surrounded by all the trappings of success and power , I felt very helpless and the cigarette seemed about as much of a morale-builder as a pocket-handkerchief is a protection against a firing-squad . |
| 53 | Dyson could n't be expected to wet-nurse his staff — he 'd far too much on his hands already . |
| 54 | In Further Education , the PSD module 81188 Induction attracted twice as many candidates as in 1988/89 , becoming fifth most popular ; another large increase in enrolment was for 81095 Introduction to Computer Application Packages . |
| 55 | Both were Dickie 's favourites , and though normally he ate twice as much as his mother and myself put together , he refused second helpings . |
| 56 | She almost forgot about lunch , and when she arrived back in her room , she was very hungry and ate twice as much as usual . |
| 57 | He was so successful that ‘ Masters of Notts ’ seemed almost as much of a neighbourhood byword as ‘ Boots the Chemists ’ . |
| 58 | The effort seemed almost too much for the reader , whose voice dropped deeply , Auguste noticed uneasily . |
| 59 | He disapproved almost as much when Pedro , who was mad about flying , but unable to afford a plane , had joined the airforce in the late seventies to be followed , two years later , by Angel . |
| 60 | The music seemed very loud all of a sudden . |