Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man could not become completely impoverished , but it only rarely happened that anyone grew rich . ’ |
| 2 | He ducked under the thief 's sword arm and brought his own blade around in an arc so incompetently misjudged that it hit the man flat-first and jolted out of the wizard 's hand . |
| 3 | Those killed were members of trade unions in an area which , with a total of 10,000 troops , has become so highly militarized that there is one soldier for every two banana workers . |
| 4 | ‘ They basically just said that whatever we were doing to keep doing it , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Johnson found the terrain ‘ still naked ’ but bountiful , with land so utterly ploughed that he wondered where the grass grew to feed the plough-horses . |
| 6 | She had continuously offered her services to the RCM committee as a foster parent , but they had never found a suitable child and perhaps also felt that she was too poor to cope . |
| 7 | Leith agreed without hesitation , and only later realised that after that promise there was no way now she could , as Naylor Massingham decreed , ‘ finish ’ with Travis . |
| 8 | Mr. Long also said that Mr. Thurgood had helped calm things down when the fight , which had been caused by another customer , broke out . |
| 9 | Despite the masterpieces they contain , Italy 's museums are so uninviting and so often closed that they have very few visitors : only the Uffizi is over the one million mark ( 1,048,185 ) , with the Accademia in Venice at a mere 183,474 ( compared with the London National Gallery 's four million visitors ) . |
| 10 | Taylor long ago argued that the advantages emerged over several years of contact and that in an emergency most experienced doctors could successfully manage their patient 's problem . |
| 11 | ‘ I long ago noted that to a doctor keeping confidences meant telling your patient nothing and his relatives everything . |
| 12 | He had long ago noticed that if you stared at a customs officer when going out through the green channel , the customs officer stopped you . |
| 13 | Standard-setters have long ago realised that there is a trade-off between objectivity and relevance in accounting information , and on the face of it , unfudgeability is simply a pejorative term for objectivity |
| 14 | He had long ago realised that if he was going to find any clues to the whereabouts of the Way Out , the location or identity of the Key , there was a good chance he might get some ideas from that type of writing . |
| 15 | Joshua Cohen had long ago recognised that Jacob would never make a businessman and had quickly abandoned his dream of having his son join him in his scrap-iron store . |
| 16 | Hoomey had long ago decided that he was the duff member of the team and knew that the worst score was discarded , and so felt that there was little onus on him . |
| 17 | He had long ago decided that his father-in-law 's conversation was so ludicrously irrelevant to anything that he understood as fact , that he barely listened to him . |
| 18 | He 'd long ago decided that if you spent all your time listening to what people actually said , you 'd never have time to work out what they meant . |
| 19 | Shipmasters long ago found that their societies are never likely to help them owing to the inevitable scattering of members and the indifference which distance begets . |
| 20 | She long ago learned that the pressure of fame and the goldfish bowl existence it brings can take a terrible toll . |
| 21 | His anger was real but so continuously felt that once he had given it adequate ( in his own mind ) expression , it ceased to modify his actions . |
| 22 | She had reached the new housing estate by now , which stretched away to the left , and covered the fields she so well remembered that overlooked Lulling Woods . |
| 23 | She turned back , and only then remembered that someone had started the engines . |
| 24 | Turner also feels that radio , especially US radio , has become so tightly formatted that it totally excludes anything new or innovative . |
| 25 | It only afterwards transpired that the seedy man was not a reporter but his tutor , with whom he was not otherwise acquainted . ’ |
| 26 | But here is a theme already so ravelled that it craves disentanglement . |
| 27 | It just so happened that in Axelrod 's original tournament about half the entries were nice . |
| 28 | It just so happened that Mandy turned up at the afternoon surgery . |
| 29 | ‘ It just so happened that the Rachel killing was at that time . ’ |
| 30 | They seldom leave their home state of California : it just so happened that both were attending an international conference in Rome . |