Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm we eventually got these things working and er I got the contract along with Jack to turn these pans over , you see ? |
| 2 | If you had joined at Paris , then you received a ticket back there ; if , however , you had joined at Marseilles , then you only got fifteen francs to get you down the line from Aubagne . |
| 3 | They were hoping to get their skis and parkers sorted out so that they could get off I think tomorrow but they only got five days skiing cos they leave again , either Sunday morning or Saturday night . |
| 4 | only got thirty bob left . |
| 5 | you only got two carpets to sort out and a bit of lino rather than having a different one with this one and a different one for that one and then a different one for |
| 6 | We had to quickly change it back , but I only got one hook done up and she had to go holding one hand behind her back for the whole scene . |
| 7 | You only got one shot left . |
| 8 | We may have been led to finding those four paragraphs because they are , in fact , the divisions which actually appear in the original and we merely sought additional evidence to support the way the author had divided up his discourse . |
| 9 | Influenced by a learned correspondent , Girolamo Mei , a philologist and student of ancient Greek music and drama who rightly believed Greek music to have been monodic ( but seemingly supplied Galilei with thirteenth-century Byzantine melodies to Mesomedes ' hymns under the impression that they were ancient ) , Galilei argued that the polyphonic ‘ music of today is not of great value for expressing the passions of the mind by means of words , but is of value merely for the wind and stringed instruments , from which the ear … desires nothing but the sweet enjoyment of the variety of their harmonies … |
| 10 | Every one of us knows from personal experience , for example on dark nights , that there is an insensibly graded continuous series running all the way from total blindness up to perfect vision , and that every step along this series confers significant benefits . |
| 11 | Then she pointedly spent several minutes talking to him . |
| 12 | Superspeed was a highly credentialed Thoroughbred stallion imported into Australia to be a commercial sire . |
| 13 | Motorola Inc is into volume production on its long overdue superscalar highly pipelined 88110 RISC multiprocessing unit , promising it will not be the last of the line . |
| 14 | Writing about the passage of the Bill through Parliament , Nigel Warner suggests that the net result of the fact that Abse 's Bill merely amended earlier legislation prohibiting homosexual behaviour , rather than repealing it , is that such behaviour remains unlawful , except for the circumstances included in the new Act , and he quotes Norman St John Stevas ' recognition of this fact . |
| 15 | If I use the analogy of women 's fashion , it is not that all the women in the western world suddenly decided one morning to cut a foot or more off all their dresses and to appear to a shocked and/or delighted male world in mini-skirts . |
| 16 | I only needed minimum pressure to get a close shave . ’ |
| 17 | But the temperature sensor in the tank was n't working , and the fuel could have reached 180 degrees … turning it into explosive gas which only needed one spark to ignite it . |
| 18 | She especially loved any opportunity to contradict those interviewers who assumed that , as the company which bore her name was so successful , she must be an ardent feminist . |
| 19 | In its aftermath Mrs Thatcher apparently took greater care to consult the Cabinet more fully and was overruled by it on the proposed sale of British Leyland to the US-based General Motors . |
| 20 | It only took six seconds to load each room but some puzzles require you to operate buttons in several rooms , so you would obviously be running between rooms for a while . |
| 21 | Oxford did all the attacking but Luton did all the scoring … it only took one goal to win it and that came from Ceri Hughes midway through the first half … |
| 22 | I personally registered my version of Frombat and used it to create the Transend Menu Program , issued with every Shareware disc , and the Transend Catalogue which only took 3 hours to write . |
| 23 | The fact that the system cost around £300,000 as compared to a traditional suppliers offer of £2.5 million and only took three months to design , install , train and make fully operational reflects well on the technology — even though the paper itself failed . |
| 24 | Although they only took 20 minutes to arrive , if George could have given a map reference , as well as his address , they could have got there that much sooner . |
| 25 | At the bottom , where the hotel drive met the highway , he halted and was watching the traffic on his left when Fabia , traces of amusement still on her face , looked to the right and suddenly felt all amusement vanish . |
| 26 | ‘ I only managed 26th place taking 43 minutes , but Howard Moiser came 14th with a very credible time of 38.10 minutes , ’ he said . |
| 27 | But the watching scout only saw 27-goal Erskine carried off with suspected knee ligament damage . |
| 28 | In London not only did satirical intention seem redundant — other people were doing it better — but as a critical reaction to society it seemed inadequate and ultimately reactionary . ’ |
| 29 | Kunstavisen reports in its March/April number that not only did many artists protest because they were not on the list but one contacted them to say that he had lost the possibility of a big exhibition because he had not been included . |
| 30 | Not only did diplomatic services grow slowly in size : there was also none of the inflation of titles and wholesale upgrading of missions which was to develop after 1918 and still more after 1945 . |