Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 2 | Walter claims to have journeyed as a student to Nepal ( 'did n't everyone ? ' ) for purification , but Vivien reminds him that he only got as far as Ostend . |
| 3 | I failed to qualify : Ade Mafe just made it , but only got as far as the semi-final . |
| 4 | She ought to unpack , but she only got as far as getting out Ricky 's photograph in its blue silk frame and putting it beside the bed . |
| 5 | Nik Cohn , that indefatigable chronicler of popular culture , set out to walk Broadway in its entirety — but he only got as far as 42nd Street . |
| 6 | He only came up here cos they were closing . |
| 7 | It literally happened as quickly as that — on the Monday I decided to finish it and on the Tuesday I packed my bags and left . |
| 8 | I only discovered that late as well when I became friends with John at college . |
| 9 | The railway only went as far as Achnasheen in 1876 . |
| 10 | Oxford 's nothing to do with it , tho — I only ended up here cos I failed my A levels ( long story ) . |
| 11 | well it got just eased of a little bit and I thought oh well I 'd make it , so I hopped up to get me erm pension erm and I just got down here when it started again and I came around the front from there and I came around the front I was soaking |
| 12 | Just got as far as the door . |
| 13 | It 's she never attempted to go she just wandered all round till she met me |
| 14 | Bouncing and bucking down the rough , uneven scrubland of the sloping ground beyond , it finally fetched up hard when it smashed head-on into a rocky outcrop . |
| 15 | I just hung grimly on because the salary was magnificent . |
| 16 | Next to him his wife , a tall rangy woman whom Sven Hjerson somehow saw even here as being astride a hunter , was leaning forward tapping the tips of the fingers of each hand one against the other . |
| 17 | I just screamed as loudly as I could — more from the shock than anything else , and I did n't stop crying for several hours afterwards . |
| 18 | So he just smiled as enigmatically as he knew how , and pocketed the drinks key . |
| 19 | As the PAL:YPE recalls , this impression was based on a combination of physical environment , staff vision , and an existing commitment to an infrastructure including a permanent part-time library assistant : School A I was impressed with , because they too had already started to talk about resource-based learning and they already had as far as I remember … ( now my memory is fairly vague now because it is quite a long time ago ) … but as far as I remember they had a Headmaster , who was extremely interested , very keen indeed , and they had a committee already set up , I think to look into this . |
| 20 | But when he said , we thought it would be a good idea , we took a Ali erm , erm mum took Alex over to Craigmiller Park , and we thought it would be a good idea if she just stayed there overnight because if she wa if she 's escaped it by , you know , tomorrow then she should really you know , be safe and , and |
| 21 | Joe had become friendly with John Redmond , and they still met occasionally even though the dance hall was closed . |
| 22 | PHOTO-ME International , the world 's biggest photo-booths operator , yesterday announced slightly better than expected full year results . |
| 23 | If Adam ever got as far as masturbating , and naturally he sometimes did , he always had the feeling afterwards that his teeth were loose . |
| 24 | Members of Darlington recreation committee yesterday heard how more than £3,500 worth of damage had been caused to art works in the Myles Meehan Gallery over the past few months . |
| 25 | It still worked quite well when up to half its original rules were removed . |
| 26 | But that time must yet remain a few days ahead , while everywhere lay in the throes of a natural disaster — the nature of which had yet to be determined — and while the snow still fell as thickly as it did . |
| 27 | Will and I still went around together when we could . |
| 28 | So to impress him I told him briefly of the four stages of polio — first the porodomal , second the muscle pain , then the period of muscle destruction which usually took no longer than fourteen days , and finally the period of repair . |
| 29 | He condemned Crilly for his hash , and once went so far as to yank a steaming thick spliff from Crilly 's hand and toss it down the lighthouse cliff . |
| 30 | He still stared straight ahead as he ploughed into the heavy dining-table . |