Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After years of listening to and reading Anglo-Saxon women letting it all hang out , it was refreshing to be among women who so rigorously kept it all in . |
| 2 | That only perhaps left him one alternative — an ultimate alternative which no-one , not even Carnelian , could reasonably expect him to invoke , let alone soon … |
| 3 | So how did it fair ? |
| 4 | So how did she this letter . |
| 5 | Mm So when did you first come back for leave , on leave ? |
| 6 | So when did you last , last week |
| 7 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |
| 8 | As a student I supplemented my grant by joining the Officer Training Corps , which not only brought me many good friends but also allowed me to participate in various outdoor activities such as abseiling , pot-holing , parachuting and canoeing . |
| 9 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 10 | He particularly enjoyed the fact that his vaguely cosmopolitan , vaguely raffish air not only made him attractive to certain high-born English gels , but led to such useful pillow-talk . |
| 11 | Not only did we double-glaze and fitted-Tintawn the whole place from top to bottom but I got my Dream Kitchen ! |
| 12 | I just fucking lost them all playing rugby and boxing . |
| 13 | Then Kraal remembered that when Creggan had asked him about where he came from all he had said was ‘ the South ’ and not really told him any more . |
| 14 | Just how did you two keep warm ? ’ |
| 15 | My middle daughter , Lal , sweetly and most touchingly offered me one of her kidneys , an offer I declined as decorously as I could . |
| 16 | Bernice had seen a number of films where that had succeeded , and more importantly thought it likely that everybody had seen at least one film where that less than daring idea had been tried . |
| 17 | And he has er and he has once again once again made it clear , he has once again made it clear that that is particularly important in such areas as standards in education , law and order and the provision of public services . |
| 18 | She wanted desperately to confide in someone about this , but once again found it impossible to find anyone suitable her mother was too distraught , her father was dead , and she could not bring herself to mention it to Miriam for fear of provoking some too blunt observations on the mysterious workings of a lady 's insides . |
| 19 | My dear mother 's statement years ago that I deprived her of her fur coat and that I was n't much to look at — she once actually pronounced me ugly — bit deep . |
| 20 | In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible . |
| 21 | Nearly bloody killed me that dog ! |
| 22 | The idea of going back still made me nervous , though . |
| 23 | Now how did you first get interested in the trade unions Mr ? |
| 24 | The proprietor greeted them pleasantly then left them alone while he attended to a customer who had followed them in . |
| 25 | Well then did we all just sit there and say well you know do n't rot there 's nuclear sort of fallout and er oh dear erm what we going to do about it and decide should we get on onto it |
| 26 | She looked at the few cigarettes left in her pack and then impulsively threw them all out of the window . |
| 27 | and then only had it four years , but I used to it was , it 's such a waste that washing machine , I think maybe I 've done a few shirts hand washing and all the water , whereas in the twin tub I 'd of done the light weights , heated the water up done the shirts and , erm , got the put in , maybe towels and then I 'd put , re-heat the water if , if it was n't really soiled and I could do either all the dogs stuff or , or my dusters |
| 28 | ‘ How long had you two been lovers ? ’ |
| 29 | So you changed jobs then really did you both you both kind of started out in the quarries |
| 30 | ‘ How well did you two know each other ? |