Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The idea of going to France and turning into reality something which for so long had seemed a dream was now a concrete possibility . |
| 3 | Thus we have witnessed recently the end of an era here , with the closure of the studio complex in Windmill Lane , which for so long had set the trends . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He never left our shores and he only once ventured to cross the border into Scotland . |
| 6 | Portia Forbes so far had shown no interest in establishing any . |
| 7 | Mr O'Connor said the campaign so far had taken a lot of time and effort , with mixed results . |
| 8 | Or could a third party claim that it had never indicated dissent and only now wished to exercise the right ? |
| 9 | Shocked is making plans to sail with her father , who long ago began building a boat , until marriage and fatherhood distracted him from finishing it . |
| 10 | Britain 's passage through the ‘ demographic transition ’ in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , associated with rising life expectancy and falling fertility ( Chapter 3 ) , long ago began to change the nation 's age ‘ pyramid ’ into a rectangular shape . |
| 11 | He did sound so very sure of himself — and , now that she came to look at it , the wallet she was handing over so meekly did have a distinctly masculine air … |
| 12 | The growth of the liturgical movement , the lay apostolate , biblical scholarship , the need for Catholics to participate in democratic politics at least in order to protect Catholic rights , the urgency of collaborating locally with non-Catholics in opposition to Nazism : all this and much else had produced a profoundly altered consciousness within the more wide-awake parts of the Church by the later years of Pius XII 's reign . |
| 13 | There 'd be tonight , now for tomorrow night , the two that was on tonight had to find the next two . |
| 14 | There was one member whose sight was so bad that when she read she not only had to prop a second pair of spectacles on top of the pair already resting on her nose , but also had to stand under the standard lamp almost pressed against the light bulb . |
| 15 | As he said , he not only had to learn the very complicated lines but also how to copy Coward 's abdominal breathing techniques . |
| 16 | In this Egypt not only wished to remove the refugee problem as a political issue , but also to encourage Israel to deny the West Bank to Jordan , Egypt 's enemy over the fate of Palestine . |
| 17 | Her hands moved to unbutton his shirt , and , that done , she not only wanted to stroke the golden down on his body , but to see that body , to see him . |
| 18 | Dwyer told the players how he wanted to win the two-match series against Scotland and how he not only wanted to reclaim the Bledisloe Cup from the All Blacks but complete Australia 's first ever 3–0 series whitewash . |
| 19 | A PENSIONER who said she would die if her 84 dogs were taken away yesterday pledged to fight a two-year ban on keeping animals . |
| 20 | Millwall just about deserved to take the spoils for their stirring second-half fightback and their performance must have cheered those fans who were furious at the £1m sale of forward Chris Armstrong to Crystal Palace . |
| 21 | Sunderland again rose to the occasion against better opposition and just about deserved to get the points to ease their relegation worries considerably . |
| 22 | I can not emphasize too strongly that I have not here attempted to provide a detailed exposition or erect a comprehensive critique of multiculturalist and antiracist assumptions and practices . |
| 23 | One end of W is rapidly but delicately electrically vibrated allowing the writing head to make equally rapid , if intermittent , contact with the paper . |
| 24 | They had to find those to visit by answering a cryptic clue and once inside had to answer a question . |
| 25 | After several months of comparative quiet , the Sagawa Kyubin scandal re-erupted in August and once more appeared to threaten the existence of the administration of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa . |
| 26 | Going home really did seem a possibility . |
| 27 | We shall look at a particular example and shall conclude that , when it comes to complexity and beauty of design , Paley hardly even began to state the case . |
| 28 | Against this pessimistic background , the Care in the Community optimism about the possibilities for long-stay patients to live more independently seemed to betoken a change of central thinking . |
| 29 | And , without television coverage to keep them honest , US newspaper and sports magazine editors once again chose to ignore the World Championship of one of the world 's most popular sports . |
| 30 | home bloody needed checking the lights ! |