Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pulled the door back a foot or so then slammed it forward , catching him between the heavy wooden door and the frame . |
| 2 | How old was she when she died , or how long had you had her ? |
| 3 | The recession might not have been so long nor so deep had she listened . |
| 4 | His voice was low , equable and leisurely ; so much so that only afterwards did it dawn upon Charlotte how very few minutes the whole interview had occupied . |
| 5 | It seems that children have not yet absorbed the fears , doubts and confusions that so often beset us as adults . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah doubt this fuckin' place has even heard o ’ primavera , ’ Ward said in his foulest Glaswegian , and that just about summed it up . |
| 7 | He had impeccable manners that somehow always reminded you of an older , bygone age . |
| 8 | The danger , as Andrei Gavrilov hints at elsewhere in this issue , is that the large emigration of musicians to the West that has taken place since restrictions were relaxed may mean that Russian musical life will lose those very qualities that not only made it technically of such high standing but that also gave it its unique flavour . |
| 9 | The three climbers who originally passed the message to them were eventually traced , and confirmed that not only had they informed the Guardia Civil in person on the 21st , but afterwards had phoned each day to see if Jeremy had been found . |
| 10 | I told myself that not only had I not had a choice , but that in fact I had n't really needed to make one . |
| 11 | He came into the room with a broad grin on his face and could hardly wait to tell me that not only had he managed to approach several people at work and ask them questions , but that he had decided to put himself to the test over the last few days and had , in fact , gone up to complete strangers in the street to ask them the time . |
| 12 | Imagine my disappointment when I staggered down a hill in murky twilight after its purchase to find that not only had it been lying in the back seat of the car for the duration of my climb , but that it had failed to come up and get me when the daylight failed . |
| 13 | So Alexander worked out a technique that not only freed him from the tendency which was at the bottom of his vocal troubles , but also cured his asthma from which he had suffered from birth . |
| 14 | The wind screeched in his ears , making consecutive thought almost impossible so that not only did he have to struggle in desperate conflict with the conditions but had also to fight to hold to his concentration . |
| 15 | Nonetheless I must stand my ground and restate that not only did it happen then , but it is getting worse ! |
| 16 | Her expression remained enigmatic , and it was quickly noticed that not once did she publicly smile or acknowledge the man who was now her husband . |
| 17 | The second thing was that almost never did it matter since the whips ran the show . |
| 18 | This inevitably led to a sense of frustration both in pupils and their teachers ; for it seemed that however well taught they were , however much they learned , it was inevitable that a high proportion of candidates would get low or unclassified grades . |
| 19 | One of the cases which made a deep impression early on in my homoeopathic career was the thirty-two-year-old male patient with the enlarged spleen whose story is presented in Chapter I. Meanwhile I was consistently impressed by the speed with which our surgical patients recovered following operation , and with the fact that very seldom did we have to catheterize our female patients after gynaecological operations . |
| 20 | Even so , he thought that never before had she been the hunter , and as the thought was framed , Grainne said softly , ‘ You are right . |
| 21 | And in daylight too , ’ he teased as though he could read her mind and know that never before had she been so uninhibited . |
| 22 | In keeping with the rest of the terrain , the land formed hills and valleys , and as she gazed at a hillside Lucy thought that never before had she seen so many different shades of green . |
| 23 | And you could watch those little blue eyes that never quite met yours . |
| 24 | These facts escaped the attention of our radical sisters and thereby so did we . |
| 25 | My middle daughter , Lal , sweetly and most touchingly offered me one of her kidneys , an offer I declined as decorously as I could . |
| 26 | So ‘ fit ’ and so well adapted were they , and so successfully did they dominate their terrestrial environment , that they survived for 140 million years . |
| 27 | The garden 's sole glory was a laburnum , which blossomed wonderfully each year : but even that she associated more with its dry black fatal pods than with its flowers , so often and so rigorously had she been warned of its poison . |
| 28 | There they brought the coracle ashore lightly , and drew in , with reluctance and the reverence of finality , what they had been hunting with such assiduity , and so persistently hoped they would not find . |
| 29 | He came out of the Hotel suddenly and violently , unable to endure the privilege which had so cruelly and so recently oppressed him . |
| 30 | By killing all these party officials he brought men into the party who owed everything to Stalin and so loyally supported him . |