Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The government in response merely restated its previously declared position .
2 Oh cos you only got it yesterday did n't you ?
3 I only got I only got
4 An economy that had been virtually self-contained for 20 years after 1945 suddenly found itself severely tested by international competition .
5 Bernice suddenly found she badly needed a drink , but her hip flask was empty .
6 Those things get so twisted it just makes me look stupid . ’
7 suddenly thought you still got to have a little holdall membership forms in it , have n't you ?
8 While the passing of time did nothing to lessen the Emperor 's appetites , it apparently did nothing either to improve his performance .
9 I was afraid of getting an arrow in my eyes , but I suddenly remembered I still had an old pair of reading glasses in my pocket , so I put them on and continued my work .
10 The move to the capital was a great upheaval for the Manchester girls , for not only did they now have to rehearse in Sin City as they called it , but they also had to work with Londoners .
11 Not only did he immediately assume overall direction of the battle , organizing his forces and ever-increasing artillery power , but he at once ordered the reoccupation and rearming of the outlying forts , to each of which two weeks ' supply of food and water for every man was dispatched .
12 Not only did he needlessly place himself in danger , but no charges were brought against his prisoners .
13 It obviously gave him plenty to think about .
14 And how long did you actually do that job for ?
15 How long did you actually leave the er how long were you away from the car for ?
16 Erm how long did you actually work at this same place for ?
17 How long did you actually live here as a child ?
18 How long did it actually take you to get out of there ?
19 So did they just keep the hotel open all year for these visitors ?
20 So did they just have you on right away ?
21 So did you generally have a , a daily lady to come and help or
22 So did you actually decide you wanted to come to the flats , was it was it a decision
23 Teacher : So did he actually become a sportsman ?
24 So did anybody else have that experience of of of caring for children and parents , or or parents-in-law at the same time ?
25 After the end of the First World War and when the motor car came in did they still come along on horses ?
26 So absorbed you even forgot to close the door ! ’
27 On going back downstairs in her working clothes to do the washing up , she felt a quiet pride : not only had she now achieved the status of a married woman , but she had also had a proper wedding with a cake and an attendant — which was more than did most girls of her class .
28 So had he ever considered singing as a career ?
29 So had she once walked and talked herself in that same garden — or so it now seemed to her — with the young Irishman who had recovered the amethyst and diamond cat which she still wore , very often on her collar and which she had longed — very badly , she remembered — to give him as a keepsake .
30 So what finally made you actually do something ?
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