Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A large chunk of his early career was spent trying to tame a series of fearsome Cadillac-powered Allards , and his own sports car idea basically revolved around putting chap but ample US V8 power into a light and well-mannered European chassis . |
| 2 | It would start probably because they are illegal , erm but basically because everybody else running about me er , was trying it , my friends so it basically boiled down to peer pressure at the start . |
| 3 | I only went upstairs to get sort of washed and dressed , after the weekend , you have nobody around and er , oh eh , it started bleeding . |
| 4 | While indomethacin alone did not affect amylase secretion , together with cyclosporin A it caused significant ( p<0.01 v controls ) inhibition of enzyme secretion ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 5 | Moreover , addition of the recombinant human TBP protein alone did not stimulate transcription activity . |
| 6 | In time , however , these ideas developed into a much more general critique , in which objects not only did not signify use value but were found not to signify anything outside of themselves . |
| 7 | The helper obviously did not do part of the actions denoted by the infinitives in these sentences . |
| 8 | These agents obviously did not cause diarrhoea at the time of study , although their presence might represent chronic or convalescent carriage after earlier symptomatic infection . |
| 9 | It hoped that the involvement of neutral states like Austria , Sweden and Switzerland — all of whom obviously did not see membership as compromising their neutrality — would persuade the Soviet Union that the new association was sufficiently politically innocuous for Finland to be able to join it in the not too distant future . |
| 10 | He obviously did n't know Iron Josh . |
| 11 | The financial interests thus gelled into four organizations that soon became instantly recognized household names and logos . |
| 12 | My notes told me what was to happen next , but my brain no longer knew how to move plot and people forward . |
| 13 | Kate began to have the feeling that she was caught by forces stronger than her , that she was in the power of some strange vortex that was spinning her around so fast that she no longer knew how to keep control . |
| 14 | The thin-faced man with a Slavic face in the seat nearest the exit door at the front already wore specially made fur boots of a curious design with pointed toes . |
| 15 | ILR thus did not develop ownership chains like the local press . |
| 16 | Sayre intentionally did not include time and movement information in his encoding scheme . |
| 17 | Even after the fact , their violent behaviour just did not make sense . |
| 18 | ‘ All this material coming around again from years back — it just did n't represent Talk Talk anymore . |
| 19 | After all , what happened was n't my fault , could n't have been , it just did n't make sense . |
| 20 | There was no need to tell Mrs Blakey everything because so much of it just did n't make sense . |
| 21 | She frowned in puzzlement — it just did n't make sense . |
| 22 | The ‘ phones just did n't stop ringing . |
| 23 | Anne was n't worried about any sin involved ; she just did n't want Topaz to be hurt . |
| 24 | All I knew by then was that I just did n't want change . ’ |
| 25 | We just did n't get time to think . |
| 26 | ‘ Idiotic of me , really , but I just did n't have time to ask . ’ |
| 27 | He just did n't have time . |
| 28 | Yes , to be fair Jenny came in er , on Friday to talk to me about it , but I just did n't have time , I was rushing off to a meeting so I 've |
| 29 | Yeah , I , I could n't , I just did n't have time . |
| 30 | If it was n't ready , just as he liked it , there would be trouble and that was something she just did n't have time for . |