Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the dybbuk disappeared was when — and only when-I knew my hopes of getting Gittel back had come to nothing . |
| 2 | In front , Ramsay 's own mount tripped over a fallen beast and rider and all but threw its own , but recovered . |
| 3 | And yet it all but shattered your life and mine and all our work , and killed an unfortunate , rash young man no worse than the most of men , and hardly deserving of death . |
| 4 | He was not wholly a man of nostalgia , and the road accident which cost him his son at the age of 21 all but destroyed his religious faith . |
| 5 | Certainly , the majority of today 's cars need far less skill to drive quickly than did their predecessors of the sixties and early seventies . |
| 6 | Between 1970 and 1986 the Ivory Coast , often regarded as one of Africa 's success stories , more than tripled its cereals imports , its external debt rose more than thirty-fold , and food production per capita barely kept up with population growth ( World Bank , 1988 , Tables ) . |
| 7 | They rode out from the stables in comparative silence , the groom a little way behind as befitted his position . |
| 8 | His uncle 's wealth , the chauffeur-driven limousine which brought him to and from school , cut him off as securely as did his own past . |
| 9 | But the saloon , where we ate , as well as drank our aperitifs , was spick and span , and shone with the polished mahogany and brass of a house-proud owner . |
| 10 | Since our first arrival here , their Seductive Highnesses had flirted with us as consistently as had their father ensured that we were together only during public occasions . |
| 11 | ‘ The newer cohorts entered a politics that was dominated by the class alignment and divided their loyalties along class lines more completely than did their elders , those who had entered politics half a century before . |
| 12 | Could it triumph , with its Galileos , Einsteins , Picassos , Beethovens and Aristotles — thinkers and seers of Pacific origin , who will one day come to imprint their views and creations as firmly as did their Mediterranean and Atlantic forebears ? |
| 13 | Fire rides , equipment , improvement of the natural water supplies , rendezvous points , sign posting , adequate access into the woods , had all been discussed solemnly as befitted their importance . |