Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Sometimes , when I was downstairs cooking or reading , I imagined I heard a piano playing , so keenly did I feel Montaine 's presence . |
2 | ‘ So they never lived long enough to know I had justified their faith in me . ’ |
3 | So long did I have to wait , however , for that second chub , I decide to dispense with floating crust and have a shot at legered crust again . |
4 | Better not mention I shave my legs on |
5 | Only once had I feared the heat of Egypt and that had been in a waking dream . |
6 | Only once did I bear resentment after being beaten . |
7 | Only once did I get some money after a gig . |
8 | Only once do I allow a man to stay the night , and I make him sleep upstairs . |
9 | Only once have I had to put my indifference to the test by meeting an ex-boyfriend . |
10 | The grand slogan of North American culture : ‘ I owe , I owe , so off to work I go ’ . |
11 | Only later did I wonder why it had been so important to tell Helmut I was returning to London . |
12 | Only later did I appreciate what sacrifices my mother made to give it to us , and how lonely she must often have been when we were all away at school ; after our father 's death she became almost possessively devoted to us . |
13 | ’ Not till much later did I learn mother had been a diabetic for many years . |
14 | Only now have I come to understand what it was my sixth sense was trying to tell me then ; in any case it would have been too late , Aunt Nessy was waiting , and bending down , I put my arms round her , and kissed her . |
15 | There was something enthralling about this scene , the three girls in the circle of insect-laden light , so that I had n't wondered what she was doing and only now did I realise that the girl was a fortune-teller . |
16 | Only now did I realize that I loved this man to whose power I had been subject all my life . |
17 | Only now do I realise my series of mistakes . |
18 | ‘ I 've — finished with him , yes , ’ she told him stiffly , ‘ but only now do I realise that Travis will always be someone special for me . ’ |
19 | ( Only now do I realize how strong the desire in her for a daughter must have been to cause her to dress her youngest son as a little girl almost until the day he went to school , his fair hair nearly reaching his waist ; yet he had grown up a man . ) |
20 | I get all dolled up for a party and then I look at myself in the mirror and suddenly chicken out , put my jeans on , ruffle up my hair , and only then do I feel comfortable . ’ |
21 | Only then did I begin to see what I had been missing . |
22 | Only then did I realize they were going to transport me up the mountain . |
23 | Only then did I turn to see what was happening , and how near my pursuer was . |
24 | Only then did I notice , lying in the far corner , two sets of packed saddle bags full of clothes and small caskets of personal jewellery . |
25 | So how did I arrive at this mix ? |
26 | So how did I come to be in the car in the middle of the night when I should have been in bed sound asleep ? |
27 | On the cube , I know how to exchange two pairs of pieces in particular positions by ( F 2 R 2 ) 3 , so how do I exchange two other pairs of pieces ? |
28 | So how do I avoid it ? |
29 | So how do I go about it … |
30 | ‘ So how do I get hold of her ? ’ the woman enquired , fretfully , voice rising out of control . |