Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone suggested she touch up her lipstick , but make-up only made her look more than ever like the Spitting Image puppet of Bette Midler . |
| 2 | The young teachers , recently assigned to their posts , perhaps felt they had little to lose by openly expressing their grievances because their salaries and living standards were low . |
| 3 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
| 4 | This life-principle was very important to the early alchemists : they saw it as so real that , not only did they consider all entities to be made up of differing proportions of dead matter and life force ( spirit ) , they tried to use the spirit as , in essence , just one more chemical . |
| 5 | Not only did they disclaim any career but motherhood , they even began to question the need for the higher education itself . |
| 6 | Under the window was Mum 's treadle Singer Sewing Machine , always in use , for not only did she make much of the family 's clothes but also dresses and coats for friends , which helped the household purse . |
| 7 | Not only did she have that reporter to cope with in the morning , but if those rumours about the Russians planning to dump some of their copper stocks on the London market were true … ? |
| 8 | I only did it to impress that lot . |
| 9 | Not only did he find this crude form of seal unsuitable for his normal still wines , but when he began to produce sparkling wines the total inadequacy of wooden pegs for imprisoning the carbonic gas was such that he set out to discover a more efficient seal . |
| 10 | ‘ How long did they say this has been going on ? ’ |
| 11 | How long did you say these tapes are ? |
| 12 | I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that |
| 13 | So did you do any singing when you came here first ? |
| 14 | So did you pass this information . |
| 15 | So did you get any of this in here ? |
| 16 | So did you enjoy that custard ? |
| 17 | So did you enjoy that film at the pictures then ? |
| 18 | So did you like that one at all ? |
| 19 | ‘ So did you ask this sapphic rabbinette to do an exorcism ? |
| 20 | D s So did you notice any sort of class differences within the school ? |
| 21 | So did you put that in the address ? |
| 22 | Erm , so did you have any friends when on the estate at first ? |
| 23 | She really only said it to annoy these old friends of her mother 's . |
| 24 | Not only had I had that run in with him over the rehearsals but he was also the fussiest teacher in the school when it came to long hair . |
| 25 | How long had he had this particular car ? |
| 26 | ‘ Of course I wanted him to produce me , I love his work , but I only wanted him to produce half the album and I wanted to work with other producers . |
| 27 | What she say , thanks to you lot so wondered he survived this lot . |
| 28 | She and Earl Spencer worked on a book for the Greater London Council called What is Our Heritage ? and soon found they had much in common . |
| 29 | We would of done the same sort of thing and could of gone in to see the planning officer but I just , I just assumed you know that , that life was fair but of course there 's no justice in this life |
| 30 | Life had given him very little , just taught him to snatch any opportunities that came his way and use them to his advantage . |