Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only had I had that run in with him over the rehearsals but he was also the fussiest teacher in the school when it came to long hair . |
| 2 | Not only had I had three months reprieve , but there had been no confrontation over any further treatment . |
| 3 | Not only had he spotted excessive muscular tension throughout his body , but now he thought he knew how to correct it . |
| 4 | How long had he had this particular car ? |
| 5 | However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought . |
| 6 | No sooner had you got used to being able to have the lights on whenever you wanted , than you ( or Dad ) had to trail down to the BP station with a jerry-can in your hand and beg for half a gallon of four-star . |
| 7 | No sooner had I completed this act of , shall we say , mercy , than a wonderful feeling of peace and calm came over me . |
| 8 | He was an astonishing man because not only had , no sooner had he done that , than he then performed a tremendously important experiment . |
| 9 | No sooner had he said this , than I pounced . |
| 10 | And no sooner had she done that than the trees began to wave their branches towards her . |
| 11 | Hardly had he done this before he heard that Yucef was near at hand , and coming as fast as he could come . |
| 12 | I 'd had enough of my hair looking like a toilet brush , so I always had it cut short — like Ronnie Lane 's of course — which was less hassle . |
| 13 | Not once had she made any attempt to respond to his initiatives . |
| 14 | This bastard , with his bluff ways , merry eyes and welcoming invitations , nearly had me murdered this morning . |
| 15 | Never before had she had such an attentive audience . |
| 16 | Never in her whole life before had she experienced such feelings . |
| 17 | Never before had he sent such an order , never . |
| 18 | Never before had I passed such a terrible night , disturbed by the most frightening dreams . |
| 19 | How often had they said that . |
| 20 | Jim , he has n't got the expertise of the middle class ( how often had she heard this at her mother 's house ) ; he is helpless , he does n't know how things work . |
| 21 | The resulting shot , taken by Pascal would have taken the goalkeeper to the back of the net as well had he got near to it . |
| 22 | How had he managed that ? |
| 23 | How had he misidentified Tundrish and Valence for a moment ? |
| 24 | If this was a true reflection of Nathan Bryce 's personality and taste , how had he acquired such a totally different public image ? |
| 25 | How had he got two jobs ? |
| 26 | But how had he learned that expertise ? |
| 27 | How had she known such things ? |
| 28 | Spirited she was , in those days , and she played one boy off against another , teasing , bold , louche , at times wildly immodest , shocking , provoking , drooping a ciggy from her wide wicked lip , dropping her blouse from bare shoulders , playing cards for forfeits , egging them on to experiment with Ouija , inventing naughty messages from the spirit world : how had she known these things , what models had she copied from films she had never seen , what spirit spoke through her , informing her impatient flesh ? |
| 29 | How had she got that in without me seeing ? |
| 30 | When had they done that ? |