Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No sooner had I selected wheels down than I noticed that the port wheel had not come right down because I did not get a green light on that side of the undercarriage indicator . |
| 2 | The only way around these attempted take-offs was to walk very slowly so that we did n't build up too much ground speed , as airline pilots would say , and stop if Dawn 's wings did open . |
| 3 | He got up and came to squat next to her , flipping through the pages rather impatiently until he stopped suddenly . |
| 4 | Half an hour later , she felt a little better although she had n't decided what to do . |
| 5 | He jumped into the shower and felt a little better when he got out a few seconds later . |
| 6 | Right so if we added together a sixth and a twelfth what will it make ? |
| 7 | She disliked the wretched man so intensely that she did n't care if she never had to see him again . |
| 8 | ‘ Lord Beddington explained that five or six years ago the Australian banking organisation broke down altogether and nobody stepped in to save it . |
| 9 | ‘ Balladic archetypes ’ sprang to her mind a good phrase , she 'd try to work it in somewhere when she got back to university . |
| 10 | So — we would much rather that you went out on a limb , that you did something , that you listened to the remarks of your peers and possibly to the remarks that we might make about them , take them away and think about them . |
| 11 | How could she spend Roman 's money so lavishly when she had just parted from her lover ? |
| 12 | The converter had worked so effectively that he suffered only mild carbon monoxide poisoning . |
| 13 | It was all right if you went away to Lynn or anything like that — so that you got a week or two in . |
| 14 | Most of the time one was all right — or at least as all right as one had ever been — and then out of the blue it struck , a hideous uprush of fear , of longing , of shame . |
| 15 | But the plains , savannahs , rivers and hills , all the way from Samburu down to the Masai Steppe , proved fruitful and the Masai built up their strength through the acquisition of women and cattle so successfully that they chased out the other tribes who were obliged to cling to the mountains or secrete themselves in the forests , land useless for cattle . |
| 16 | She wanted to see him so badly that she felt physically bereft . |
| 17 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |
| 18 | Perhaps only if you did not have power : Beaton from St Andrews came to Arbroath in 1524 : the Abbey contributed to the lifestyle and wellbeing of his mistress , a fecund Miss Ogilvy , and their seven bastards . |
| 19 | And he stood and listened to this for a while and then he thought he was delayed long enough so he set off home . |
| 20 | So much so that we took out insurance er if it went over twenty percent we were covered . |
| 21 | She was all but out of the door on her way to Oxford Street when , incredibly , she found herself shaking , so much so that she went back into the tiny bedroom and lay down . |
| 22 | At school , compensating , she had worked and worked and worked , so much so that she had finally made the two A's and a B necessary for medicine in her A levels . |
| 23 | Mrs J. was a dominant person , so much so that she ended up in hospital suffering from malnutrition , as she had refused to eat . |
| 24 | Nevertheless it all sounded pretty convincing , so much so that you came out wondering whether that persistent zit on your face was n't the result of bad diet , but actually something implanted by alien beings , determined for their own mysterious purposes to make you suffer the social embarrassment of a bad complexion . |
| 25 | Aviation was one of them and I was completely fascinated by the thrill of flying , so much so that I thought seriously of giving up journalism and becoming an aviator . |
| 26 | There , too , he was overwhelmed by what he saw ; so much so that he went back with Hanns for a hectic fortnight at the end of September . |
| 27 | So much so that he spent fully eight years in a succession of colleges before throwing himself on the tender mercies of the world . |
| 28 | They were grand boys and so courageous … maybe too much so as it turned out . |
| 29 | When he moved abruptly to cover her , to force a place for himself on top of her , levering her legs wider to open her body to him , his coarse , muscled weight was a blissful assuagement of hunger , a hunger burning through her so fiercely that she felt almost faint … |
| 30 | He stood at the bottom of the steps and looked up at her so fiercely that she stopped halfway down and felt quite uneasy , wondering exactly what she had done wrong . |