Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [det] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few of the burlier men put their shoulders to the door , but it was built of ancient oak , heavily reinforced with iron and their combined weights failed so much as to cause the door to tremble on its massive hinges . |
| 2 | Like many Chicago blues songs of the 1940s and 1950s , it draws heavily on the traditions of rural Mississippi blues — evident , for instance , in the vocal ( falling shapes , largely pentatonic , lots of repetition of phrases and short motifs , not much ‘ tune ’ , instead close to speech , shouted as much as sung ) , and second , the use , throughout , of only one chord — a kind of drone . |
| 3 | Characteristically , he charged considerably more than had been agreed for the work ; the ewer and basin weighed 570 ounces , substantially more than the requested maximum . |
| 4 | Dysart Engineering was one of the success stories of West Midlands industry after the Depression and , as Gordon Dysart 's only son , young Alan was a dozen rungs above the likes of you and me on the ladder of life before he 'd so much as lost his milk teeth . |
| 5 | But an intimate dinner at the château was another matter altogether — because this would be the first time she 'd as much as set eyes on him since he 'd walked away from her outside this very room on that awful night . |
| 6 | I ate too much and drank nearly three-quarters of the bottle . |
| 7 | Only one company , Equitable Life , paid out more than had been paid in — £1,879 — and several paid out less than £1,000 . |
| 8 | Back at the firm , did my colleagues ask if I had made any good deals , ordered too much or made new contacts ? |
| 9 | The question of images in churches was further addressed by two sets of injunctions issued by Cromwell in 1536 and 1538 , but even here the reforms did not go as far as some iconophobes would have liked , as they drew back from condemning all images and denounced only those that encouraged ‘ superstition and hypocrisy ’ and ‘ that most detestable sin of idolatry ’ . |
| 10 | I hung up the plastic sheet I had left soaking , rolled away those that had dried , scrubbed dried plaster from the table with the special remover , and wondered wearily how much longer it would be before the scent of wet plaster stopped reminding me of Marcus . |
| 11 | And then , in January , Klaus Fuchs was arrested and revealed that , thanks to him , the Russians knew far more than had ever been suspected . |
| 12 | To her disappointment , she had not been able to find a Château La Tour Monchauzet vintage on the wine-list , but the half-bottle of Côtes de Bergerac that she chose instead more than made up for it . |
| 13 | Sybil knew where all that came from . |
| 14 | But my education made things harder for me as a soldier , paradoxically , for I thought too much and questioned the wisdom of those in command . |
| 15 | And he remembered Isaac 's story about the man who thought too much and smiled once more . |
| 16 | It demanded very little and gave a good deal in return . |
| 17 | It brought the spectators to their feet in an act of remembrance for Beryl who did so much and gave so much to the Society . |
| 18 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 19 | But er of course I gave up that and went er when I went on to the council . |
| 20 | The café-cum-shop up on the ravishing Col du Soul or in particular has been a wondrous mess on my two ascents there : very dark , immensely cluttered , low ceilinged and lit as much as warmed by a large log fire . |
| 21 | And he did far more than help them just to survive . |
| 22 | ‘ But the balance sheets that you gave Craig and the fact that the thefts went on while he was in prison , did n't all that prove it was his brother 's fault ? ’ |
| 23 | No one had so much as noticed them there . |
| 24 | Not even very kind , very polite young men in her year at art school had so much as thawed one tiny corner of her iced-up emotions . |
| 25 | Nobody had so much as breathed the word ‘ Wages ’ . |
| 26 | Aside from the worthlessness of double negatives , aside from the fact that McGuinness was a far more accomplished safe-breaker than Meehan ( he had earned his nickname Tank because it was said he could penetrate even one of those ) , and aside from the fact that in all the verbiage spilled out by Meehan , Waddell and McGuinness to lawyers , journalists and others for over thirteen years , none of them had so much as hinted at the idea of a quartet , there was not a scrap of worthwhile evidence to support it : it was speculation with a vengeance and extraordinary to find in a report by a judge of his standing . |
| 27 | I suddenly realized why he smoked so much and felt queasy all over again . |
| 28 | Well they want to find out why it is that someone who smoked so much and drank so much |
| 29 | Once I drank too much and spent the night with her , which was a terrible mistake . |
| 30 | I drank too much and died of a fever . ’ |