Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , although the chronicler was well informed , and has something to offer on events in Mercia and Northumbria , he seems to have known most , or perhaps merely wished to say most , about what happened in southern England and East Anglia . |
| 2 | The welcoming party for Ali Bacher , first off the plane , and the 94-strong South African party was only a small one , comprising Jamaican and West Indian Board officials and assorted media , but all present knew they had witnessed a piece of history that only recently seemed destined for the next century . |
| 3 | It had been intended , purely and simply , as an insult , but it had come out with just a hint of that genuine curiosity that so unexpectedly had afflicted her just a moment before . |
| 4 | The first major place we reached was a city called Oradea where we realised that not much had changed in Romania since our last visit . |
| 5 | In the first place , by the eighteenth century a hierarchy of diplomatic ranks more clear-cut than ever before had emerged , though this process was still incomplete . |
| 6 | In some ways , though , Nick — as he insisted people call him — lived in the shadow of his father Alec , a renowned pacifist who had set up a Chair of Peace Studies at Bradford University on the sensible grounds that everywhere else seemed to study war . |
| 7 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |
| 8 | Charles explained that he 'd come round in answer to a complaint and rather thankfully began to pass on apologies on behalf of the Regiment for transmission to Lord Southdown later , but the butler shook his head regretfully once more , indicated that Lady Charity was at home , and felt certain that she would deal with the matter . |
| 9 | Returning to her room , Ellie washed and dressed , and rather dispiritedly began to pack . |
| 10 | The mundane details of the denunciations , the decrees against Jews using the telephone or travelling on the Métro and so on had brought home to him that the French had both suffered by and been complicit in the Holocaust . |
| 11 | And they realized that all their efforts in controlling quality by inspection and so on had failed . |
| 12 | He said the police were talking to everyone Angie had seen in the two weeks before she … well … vanished , and so far had come up with nothing . |
| 13 | Philip Larkin began as a poet in the tradition of W. B. Yeats , and only slowly came to see that Thomas Hardy , not Yeats , was to be his poetic master . |
| 14 | Turning to face Ellie , she smiled , said , ‘ I ca n't thank you enough for all you 've done … ’ and only then seemed to realise that Ellie herself was n't all dressed up . |
| 15 | Or could a third party claim that it had never indicated dissent and only now wished to exercise the right ? |
| 16 | Only in 1532 did he alight on the policy of the royal supremacy : the idea that the English monarchy had enjoyed an unlimited authority over the church within its realm for centuries and only now needed to start exercising this on a more regular basis . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All Nottingham was beautiful and along there 'd got great big flags and they 'd trimmed all Christmas they 'd they 'd sewed all Christmas things on them . |
| 19 | It seems likely that the Reformation may have contributed to this dramatic rise in prosecutions — which some historians have labelled a ‘ witch-craze ’ — both because the new climate of religious strife led to a general heightening of fears and suspicions , and because without the protective magic of Catholicism , many individuals felt themselves more vulnerable in the face of malevolent forces , and thus more impelled to take action against them . |
| 20 | Sunderland again rose to the occasion against better opposition and just about deserved to get the points to ease their relegation worries considerably . |
| 21 | The boy had lost the father he adored , and soon after had lost his darling mother also . |
| 22 | Alan Rothwell , who played another post office clerk in the film and soon afterwards became known on TV as David Barlow in Coronation Street , remembered Crawford as ‘ a good mate and good fun ’ , adding , ‘ We were both on a sort of level at the time . |
| 23 | Our UK customers first began to look shaky and soon afterwards began to shut down at an alarming rate . |
| 24 | He was lowered down the main shaft and once underground tried to make his way to the area in which the missing men had been working or to any passageway in which they could have sought refuge . |
| 25 | Unfortunately his work as art adviser did not allow him much time to paint , but some years ago , moving from urban to country surroundings , he found himself most excited by the wild moors and dales of Yorkshire , and once more began to paint . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They had to find those to visit by answering a cryptic clue and once inside had to answer a question . |
| 28 | They had reached the beginning of the wood and still neither had spoken . |
| 29 | Von Gallwitz was a talented artillerist , having been the Inspector General of the Field Artillery just before the war , and more recently had added to his lustre in leading the Eleventh Army to victory in Serbia . |
| 30 | While DEC Europe has long been a strong advocate for X.desktop , DEC US originally opted for the rival Visix Looking Glass product ( UX No 306 ) , and more recently began evaluating HP 's Visual User Environment ( UX No 377 ) . |