Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [vb past] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she was n't mistaken , someone above had just licked his backside and , true to naval tradition , he was passing the reprimand down . |
| 2 | it made eating and doing a little more exciting to know that someone else had just ceased doing these basic human things for ever . |
| 3 | He stupidly took off on the outside of a wave when someone else had already established priority on the inside . |
| 4 | Someone else had practically bought the place , so Annabel was lucky to get it . |
| 5 | as if someone else had strictly forbidden him to speak . |
| 6 | It had to be possible , for someone else had obviously located that opening . |
| 7 | Matthew Blake certainly seemed to see a Charity Marlowe that nobody else had ever seen . |
| 8 | I remember erm one morning he came in in a bit of erm he was obviously very annoyed about something and er , when he was in those sort of moods he used to expect erm all sort of reports to be presented and er he wanted er statistics which nobody else had ever thought of and erm Arthur who as I have s hinted before was erm really my sort of guardian angel he , he sort of er did a great deal for me . |
| 9 | I think somebody had sort of started pricing them and then somebody else had probably took over and they ended up with the wrong price on but I did n't mind ! |
| 10 | One thing , thought Sally-Anne , looking around her , after Ma Bailey had set her down in one of the few chairs the room possessed , was that no one here had ever done any summer cleaning , nor spring , autumn nor winter cleaning either . |
| 11 | But no one there had ever heard of the Arektenje area of Jaffa where the newly married Damiani had bought his home . |
| 12 | Yes , something certainly was over , but something else had just began to be thought about . |
| 13 | In His place , and with His power , something else had slowly congealed into transcendental existence . |
| 14 | As Lewis watched him walk sway up to Hamilton Road , he wondered , as he 'd so often wondered , what exactly Morse was thinking ; wondered about what was going on in Morse 's mind at that very moment ; the reading of the clues , those clues to which no one else could see the answers ; those glimpses of motive that no one else could ever have suspected ; those answers to the sort of questions that no one else had even begun to ask … |
| 15 | Which was why , of course , no one else had ever guessed at just how much he had always loathed her . |
| 16 | No one else had ever spoken of love in my mother 's drawing-room and I imagined that Lili 's conversation would cling to the curtains and the cushion covers like tobacco smoke so that the room would never be the same again . |
| 17 | And she began to laugh , her temper draining away , and for the first time she realised that he was frequently doing something which no one else had ever succeeded in doing before — he was defusing her rage . |
| 18 | No one else seemed really to thunk but Biff . |
| 19 | I can not find that it was undue influence of the kind which sapped her will and destroyed her volition , but I am satisfied that the pressure of her mother , the very presence of her mother , the mother 's fervent belief in the sin of blood transfusion , the patient 's desire to please her mother , despite their troubled relationship , all of this contributed to the focus of attention being drawn to blood transfusion before anyone else had ever contemplated its need . |
| 20 | On my way back to Anastasia , I catch sight of a tree-creeper and watch him flit from tree to tree , scurrying mouse-like up their trunks as though nothing else had ever happened here . |
| 21 | Opposition MPs claimed that there had been only one small bookmaker in favour and that everyone else had either objected or been neutral . |
| 22 | You 'd think no-one else had ever made a film except him and you can see him coming on all good mates with the crew so they 'll make things easier for him when he gets in front of camera , so he looks five years younger and I get the shiny nose . |
| 23 | When we first saw Mark Cottrell 's fabric wraps around his handles/lines we wondered why no-one else had ever thought of the same idea . |