Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [noun] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The HWIM system had only 1,362 entries whereas we had 4,000 potential candidates in the lexicon ( excluding reduced forms ) , with plans to increase this to 20,000 . |
| 2 | It was only eight weeks since we had left Aubagne yet there was a difference in the way in which we behaved and in which we saw ourselves . |
| 3 | It could be only eight years before he becomes King William V. But unlike his father , he will be well equipped for another role — that of partner and parent . |
| 4 | It was only thirty-six hours since she 'd been washed up on the island like a piece of flotsam , she reminded herself ; early days to start bewailing her fate . |
| 5 | Levitt was rejected for the Queens Award only 12 months before he secured the top honour . |
| 6 | She was only thirteen stone when they took her in that last time , she was massive , she must of only been about five foot |
| 7 | She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ . |
| 8 | She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ . |
| 9 | The son who was born in 1511 , lived only six weeks and there followed a succession of miscarriages and still-births , so Henry VIII convinced himself that God was punishing him for marrying his late brother 's widow , so he sought the Popes annulment of the marriage . |
| 10 | He was finally given a pension , but by that time he was old , he was half paralysed , and he was nearly blind , and he died in eighteen thirty-six , only six years after he 'd received this recognition and this pension . |
| 11 | It is only three years since she took up painting dogs as a profession , but in that short time she has been kept constantly in work . |
| 12 | So , only three days after she had got the sack , she caught a train — drawn by a diesel called Peter Pan — from Liverpool Street into Suffolk . |
| 13 | It was only three days since they had spoken , and they were not particularly close friends . |
| 14 | Only three days and they seemed to have travelled a great distance . |
| 15 | Then I spent three years there and it was only three weeks after I 'd left that I was offered the part of Russell in Butterflies . |
| 16 | He had spoken only three words but they had sounded different … nice . |
| 17 | In mid-March LVMH reduced its debts by selling part of those businesses , the Lanson brand , only three months after it had bought it . |
| 18 | Jessie had said a fortnight , but it was only nine days since she had broken the awful news to her . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've got light fingers , ’ Mrs Gooden said approvingly one Sunday as she watched Clare , with the tips of her fingers , mix flour and lard in the big yellow mixing bowl . |
| 20 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 21 | Do n't accept a wood treatment guarantee as proof that infestation has been eliminated ; reinfestation has been found rife in a roof space only five years after it had been treated . |
| 22 | His funeral took place at SS Peter and Paul , Yeadon where only five months before he had celebrated the silver jubilee of his ordination . |
| 23 | Now er her husband came down one day and I said to him , what 's your name , and he said Mr |
| 24 | Three drawers down one side and it 's got it |
| 25 | I 've put an apple tree down one side and I 've got a victoria plum on the other side . |
| 26 | Jordi had been in Salamanca only one day but he had found out where I was living . |
| 27 | Not only did the Manchester conference reject the memorandum with only one dissenter but it went on to request : that Conferences of the Labour Party League of Youth be empowered to freely discuss and record decisions upon policy . |
| 28 | Children should also work for only one hour before they start school . |
| 29 | There 's only one branch that I 've been and that was Bury . |
| 30 | There was only one occasion when he intervened during the rehearsals , according to Irene Worth . |