Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise , one wonders , how could there constantly be those ‘ asides ’ , which seem to reveal that the participants were actually aware the game was up or rather perhaps had never started ? |
| 2 | The hatred that had motivated him for so long had inexplicably withered and died . |
| 3 | The reticence which had surrounded the subject for so long had suddenly collapsed on all sides . |
| 4 | The Israeli Jews in the little kibbutz a mile or so away had never heard of it , but an old Arab woman in a long dark dress picking fruit pointed up a hill when she heard the name and shrugged her shoulders . |
| 5 | New York was –30 miles away and , apart from business trips , he only ever returned there to compete in some of the city 's more gruelling and arduous marathons . |
| 6 | West Indies had won the three-Test series 2–0 , yet so far had never played a one-day international against anyone , so the balance between form and experience seemed a neat one ; and so it proved . |
| 7 | As major-general in 1655–7 for Northamptonshire , Bedfordshire , and Huntingdon — a remarkable appointment for one who so far had never commanded a regiment — he was particularly harsh on Catholics , Quakers ( then notorious as ‘ disturbers of the peace ’ ) , and ‘ rogues and vagabonds ’ , whom he seems to have lumped together . |
| 8 | Indeed the kind of situation which so often arose elsewhere seems more akin to the ‘ restricted ’ literacy that characterised pre-alphabetic scripts . |
| 9 | He had long ago decided never to say a word about it to any of his patients . |
| 10 | The white quivering lights which she so frequently saw probably resembled the white ‘ eels and strings ’ that Ruskin complained of , and had their origin in the psychotic brain . |
| 11 | It was the last public appearance of Laura 's mother , Helen , who very soon after had suddenly collapsed and died from a completely unsuspected kidney complaint . |
| 12 | There was a powerful stench of urine also , as if he no longer went outside to perform his natural functions . |
| 13 | Folly felt something burst inside her , and she no longer wanted just to escape Luke ; she wanted to strike out at him ; hurt him as he had hurt her . |
| 14 | I had felt certain that the session had gone well , yet nevertheless waited anxiously to hear officially , but nothing happened . |
| 15 | The teacher kept half an eye on her all the time and noticed that the child very soon became deeply absorbed in the book . |
| 16 | However thoroughly he had pulled up his African roots , however , he never really felt entirely accepted in England . |
| 17 | Her eyes linked them until she went to pull together the curtains she knew very well had never met properly . |
| 18 | When hundreds of students tried to proceed along them they very speedily became totally blocked . |