Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only moved from Middlesbrough because I became a little stale . |
| 2 | He only came to life when she began unbuttoning his trousers , for as she touched his fly buttons , so he grabbed at his belt . |
| 3 | ‘ But , unfortunately , this undesirable side to your brother 's character only came to light after I 'd hired you . |
| 4 | The offences only came to light because of an attempt to inflate profits at Alexander Howden , which was discovered by the American company Alexander and Alexander after it bought the company . |
| 5 | Her case only came to light because the Health Authority meeting were mistakenly sent to the media . |
| 6 | Part of the scandal only came to light when an eagle-eyed bank clerk spotted changes made to the bank destination information on an authorised cheque from Craven Grain . |
| 7 | News of the car smuggling scandal only came to light when Col. Luis Catalino González Rojas , commander of the fourth infantry division , defied orders and leaked evidence of the affair to the press . |
| 8 | The matter only came to light when police , conducting an inquiry into the running of children 's homes in North Wales , interviewed the boy last year . |
| 9 | The matter only came to light when police , conducting an inquiry into the running of children 's homes in North Continued on Page 5 Continued from Page 1 Wales , interviewed the boy last year . |
| 10 | However , these irritations perhaps paled into insignificance when compared to the British position . |
| 11 | The radio on the dummy suddenly screeched into action as Delaney 's distorted voice gave it life . |
| 12 | The men inside yelled in fear as they realised that they were in a bog . |
| 13 | He only went to church when he took church parade — he was what we then called a Regular — but he shed buckets of tears when he heard the Last Post . |
| 14 | Other management jobs only went to outsiders if there were no internal candidates . |
| 15 | The story only waned in popularity when Mandela was released : why hang on to the book , if it existed , at the time when it was most likely to sell ? |
| 16 | I confess that I literally gasped with disbelief when I heard him calmly announce his determination to get rid of the poll tax at the first possible opportunity . |
| 17 | She was one of the last of the anachronistic breed of Northern women who only spoke to men when spoken to , or after three port and lemons , whichever came first . |
| 18 | It nearly killed them to acknowledge my existence and they only spoke in monosyllables when I was present , but the babble of sound which broke out every time I went out and closed the door behind me was enough to make me want to go rushing straight to Miss Malley to beg her to send me back to my friends . |
| 19 | That would explain why his victims all stayed in bed as he blasted away with a handgun in the luxury , ranch-style home near San Diego , California . |
| 20 | I literally jumped for joy when I heard that key turn in the lock and saw Mum and Mrs Taylor enter with another woman . |
| 21 | Despite the way she discreetly booked into hotels as plain Miss Jones , she was ever available for interviews on local radio stations and always willing to pose with winners of concert tickets in the evening papers . |
| 22 | Only I just turned into grocery because you could n't get fruit , when you want Well you had a bit but not much . |
| 23 | All thoughts of where they were and what was happening fled abruptly as she stared at him with a shock that soon turned to joy as she saw the expression on his face . |
| 24 | Thus , it appeared to be a curiously odd appointment to the District as the most active and successful Tutorial Classes already existed in Northamptonshire while there were large tracts of East Anglia where , from the WEA standpoint as a Responsible Body and as joint provider of Tutorial Classes with the Cambridge Board , much valuable work might have been undertaken by a university resident tutor . |
| 25 | But in latter days they came with a tank and they put it out and put it in a trailer you see but I just worked with bags when it was the first of it . |
| 26 | The cheapness of the method , combined with the ease in ensuring that a particular colour would be identical in shade to the one used earlier , meant that plant dyes soon fell into disuse except in remote country areas . |
| 27 | Something in the back of her mind was saying : shock , , you 're in shock , Bernice snap out of it , woman , but she tuned it out and just stared at Ace until the world came back into focus around her and she heard Bishop saying calmly : |
| 28 | The current was strongest along the far bank and gradually lessened in strength until it reached a couple of yards from our bank , where it was almost slack . |
| 29 | It always worked with Weenie when she had a misery . |
| 30 | is ex- and like started at Wallingford when it was built . |