Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather how did it feel ? |
| 2 | She pulled the door back a foot or so then slammed it forward , catching him between the heavy wooden door and the frame . |
| 3 | The recession might not have been so long nor so deep had she listened . |
| 4 | These facts escaped the attention of our radical sisters and thereby so did we . |
| 5 | My middle daughter , Lal , sweetly and most touchingly offered me one of her kidneys , an offer I declined as decorously as I could . |
| 6 | So ‘ fit ’ and so well adapted were they , and so successfully did they dominate their terrestrial environment , that they survived for 140 million years . |
| 7 | They 've been focusing on the relationship between staff and students and so why did you focus on what appears to be the short end of the stick , rather than the major problem ? |
| 8 | Yes and so where did you go ? |
| 9 | The garden 's sole glory was a laburnum , which blossomed wonderfully each year : but even that she associated more with its dry black fatal pods than with its flowers , so often and so rigorously had she been warned of its poison . |
| 10 | There they brought the coracle ashore lightly , and drew in , with reluctance and the reverence of finality , what they had been hunting with such assiduity , and so persistently hoped they would not find . |
| 11 | He came out of the Hotel suddenly and violently , unable to endure the privilege which had so cruelly and so recently oppressed him . |
| 12 | By killing all these party officials he brought men into the party who owed everything to Stalin and so loyally supported him . |
| 13 | She was a startling sight in that setting , for she was immaculately dressed in riding clothes , her breeches almost white , boots black and so highly polished I could see the flood waters reflected in them . |
| 14 | I have noticed this just as clearly as the above many times while half asleep in bed but never had paper handy and so never wrote it down … |
| 15 | And so then said you 're telling porkies as a joke or something and Jimmy went what you bloody talking about |
| 16 | And so how did you er how did you manage how did the family ? |
| 17 | Following some reluctance to become involved in air pollution control , the federal government opted for a research role in 1955 and only slowly did it begin to intervene with the control policies adopted by the states . |
| 18 | On this day he was gliding home to our airfield and only just made it back with less than a hundred feet as he arrived flying downwind over the boundary . |
| 19 | In my view this restaurant 's three year old is a model of good behaviour : his tantrums are rare and only once did he complain about a lack of attention by peeing on the floor right between my feet and his mother 's . |
| 20 | Ignoring him , she shoved the dress into the case , zipped it shut , and only then realised he had Gwen Bear . |
| 21 | To his dismay , she wept and only then did he hear of the plan with which she had gone to Mrs Browning . |
| 22 | She made Terry try it on , take it off , changed something else , and finally , at gone midnight , she had done all that she could do , and only then did she allow Terry to look at herself in the mirror . |
| 23 | Generally the more expensive books would have gone already and only occasionally did I have to spend more than £5 , often far less . |
| 24 | For the sake of a quiet life he had given in to an unreasonable request and only now did he fully realize what it meant . |
| 25 | There was something enthralling about this scene , the three girls in the circle of insect-laden light , so that I had n't wondered what she was doing and only now did I realise that the girl was a fortune-teller . |
| 26 | She returned a few minutes later and somewhat grudgingly led me into a little room at the back . |
| 27 | The views of the teachers tended to be directly related to how involved they were in managing a department and thus how involved they were in spending capitation . |
| 28 | ‘ And just why did she stay the night in Piazza Pitti ? ’ |
| 29 | And then she slopped herself down , got a fag and just about choked me and Auntie Alice out and then she did start to speak . |
| 30 | ‘ And just how did he get up there ? ’ |