Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , my GCSE courses eventually led me to attend university as a mature student and now I hope to become a solicitor . |
| 2 | The industry 's own appliance selling effort was not dictated purely by its retailing interests , but was biased towards winning that part of the domestic electricity load which most helped them to increase electricity sales while minimising costs overall . |
| 3 | Then the Aldwych Theatre suddenly asked him to play Bottom in A Midsummer Night 's Dream for the Royal Shakespeare Company . |
| 4 | like I said we at least to go on one complex exercise every month which , although they ca n't physically make you go on it there was , you know , they more or less made you go sort of thing pay to do and then we were there the other weekend we had one of these weekends where be more fun , really hard work though it 'll be more fun for |
| 5 | As one of the torches suddenly flared he saw blood on her face , hair and shoulders . |
| 6 | Not only did they need access to the non-arable resources controlled by the nobility , but their ever-growing land shortage compelled them to work for the nobility on conditions which had much in common with those of serfdom . |
| 7 | Not only did they steal land , labour and raw materials from native peoples : they sold European goods to them as well . |
| 8 | Not only did they live rent free but also received 3/6 per week . |
| 9 | Not only did it give prestige and add a sense of urgency to an undertaking , it also exerted the pressure of old feudal practice upon vassals to join their lord in person . |
| 10 | As inspirational pronouncement rather than an operational blueprint , not only did it give expression to and authority for the idea that a fairer , juster society should be created , as the inalienable rights of man required ; but more , it asserted that thanks to machinery powered by steam it could be . |
| 11 | I walked inside and it was just like my granny 's sitting room Not only did it sell teddy boy clothes but there was also a fifties radiogram and fifties wallpaper . |
| 12 | Not only did it increase understanding of both quantitative and qualitative indicators , it also focused teachers ' attention on issues of quality in their work . |
| 13 | What was more , not only did I have breakfast with I the family ( I live in the Smiths ' Quarter in Chelsea Barracks ) — toast , bacon and sausages , washed down with milk — but we had no muster parade that morning , and no Adjutant 's Orders to attend . |
| 14 | In a letter to her he said : ‘ Not only did you show discourtesy to the House in refusing to make a statement but your use of a ‘ pursuant to ’ written answer to make this announcement was deplorable . |
| 15 | Not only did he write music for various Masonic ceremonies ( such as the Maurerische Trauermusik ( Masonic Funeral Music ) , K.477 , for the memorial service of two fellow-Masons ; but , as we shall see , he actually wrote a ‘ Masonic ’ opera that was riddled with the arcane symbolism of the craft — an incredibly daring act for the member of a society dedicated to absolute secrecy to do ( all its members had to swear an oath to ‘ hear and conceal ’ on pain of having their throats cut or their tongues pulled out ) . |
| 16 | How long did it take lightning to strike ? |
| 17 | So did you enjoy school ? |
| 18 | So did he take part in that as well ? |
| 19 | Not only had she lost control of her daughter 's behaviour but Kim was rubbing salt into the wound by insisting on this game . |
| 20 | I only just made it last time . ’ |
| 21 | I just asked Him to have grace and mercy on me . |
| 22 | And I just stood there and just watched him blow lead . ’ |
| 23 | Thereafter I never attacked Rowse 's political views in print , and , when I came to know him better , I no longer felt I had reason to do so . |
| 24 | In 1804 , aged 22 , he moved to a clerical post in London but soon left it to study law in the city . |
| 25 | Having passed from the Mediterranean to the Indus without attracting the attention of a single government official , Battuta , like so many subsequent travellers , crossed the Indian frontier only to find himself caught up in an impenetrable web of bureaucracy : no sooner had they set foot on the east bank of the Indus than intelligence officials ‘ wrote to Delhi informing the king of our arrival and giving him all the details concerning us . ’ |
| 26 | As usual , no sooner had I put brush to paper did the local and tourist onlookers arrive , along with a thirsty dog . |
| 27 | No sooner had he come back than he left Diana and the children at home yet again , and went to Italy on a week 's painting holiday . |
| 28 | No sooner had he published Volume I in 1960 than the whole status that he claimed for History , for man , and for their articulation , came under attack . |
| 29 | And , as legend has it , no sooner had he put spur to his mount and raised his stout stick , than the French champion fled the field of honour . |
| 30 | They finally forced me to seek help . |