Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [that] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although President Nixon may have come to the White House committed to ending the war in Vietnam , it just so happened that his way of ending it was to escalate it . |
| 4 | I interviewed him when he became First Sea Lord and on one or two other occasions , and I always slightly regretted that my commitment to current affairs had prevented me from taking up Associated Rediffusion 's offer to spend two years with him , at home and abroad , researching and scripting the thirteen programmes they were planning on his Life and Times — a task subsequently and admirably performed by John Terraine . |
| 5 | He then falsely stated that his firm would pay . |