Example sentences of "soon [subord] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | very soon after we got here , but er the Corporation never put any wall light in houses |
| 2 | ‘ My love , ’ he said , ‘ what was so urgent that you had to summon me so soon after we parted yesterday afternoon ? |
| 3 | ‘ Steve , ’ Ruth whispered shakily , ‘ I wanted to tell you about Fernando tonight because … because soon after we arrived here , so did he . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Must we wrangle so soon after we meet again , Papa ? |
| 5 | At eight I had my first migraine ( I could not please her , I might as well join her ; they stopped soon after I left home ) , and I started to get rapidly and relentlessly short-sighted . |
| 6 | ‘ Soon after I came here . |
| 7 | ‘ Soon after I started here . |
| 8 | Soon after he got there the atom bomb all but ended the issue and certainly ended all active prospects for the latest intake of air crew . |
| 9 | He found his niche in Idaho at the National Engineering Laboratory and , soon after he arrived there , news of the Soviet interest in muon catalysed fusion reached the West . |
| 10 | As soon as we get there , I 'll start up the motors again . ’ |
| 11 | its , it 's , it 's the same Saturdays and Sundays , I ca n't get him out of the house and yet soon as we get there we have friends and family and they say , keep saying come on , come up and see us , I went up in the mini on me own one day and spent a couple of days with her , but , it , it ai n't the same when you go on your own , I dare n't go too far in my mini because it 's , it 's erm , it 's not a car that you can be hundred per cent sure of it , I mean as soon as it rains it stops anyway , we went out in it today and there 's all water in the front of the , in the front , but |
| 12 | So we 'll have to have that cleaned as soon as we get there . |
| 13 | So I 'll have to get it set up ready for when I meet you from school and then we can switch it on as soon as we get home . |
| 14 | I was going to let you have the rent as soon as we met again . ’ |
| 15 | As soon as we got there , I started yelling for I was really scared , thought I should drown , but the grown-ups just laughed and off we slid , down the steep slope to hit the water with a mighty splash , then gently floated to the other side of the pool to disembark . |
| 16 | Yeah , swinging around us , literally big panes of glass and they were flying down and as soon as they got away from the houses , it opened up again , they were crashing down all over my drive and all over the road out there |
| 17 | The advance guard of men on mules and horses came up in regular lines but as soon as they got near they dashed up at full gallop , shouting and brandishing their weapons , each man shrieking out how many men he had killed ; and then they wheeled round to make room for others . |
| 18 | As soon as they got home , Anne started getting Abigail to bed . |
| 19 | As soon as they finished around 5 pm , they would travel back to London and snatch a meal of the inevitable egg and chips . |
| 20 | And then as soon as they went away she got her out and sat and had a . |
| 21 | Sleep is commonly disturbed in one way or another : some people nod off as soon as they get home and sit down ; they wake up at midnight with the TV still on — and then ca n't get back to sleep again till 3am ; some people find it impossible to wake up in the morning and getting out of bed is a real struggle ; others are awake at half-past four in the morning with their brains buzzing and churning ; some people find themselves getting very sleepy when difficult or anxiety-making things happen . |
| 22 | He collected her as soon as they had both tidied their offices , McLeish maliciously enjoying Davidson 's obvious chagrin as they said good-night to him on the way out . |
| 23 | As soon as they had all landed , Woolley rang his handbell . |
| 24 | But they will be quick to point out to ministers that ‘ helping the poorest ’ can often lead to poverty and unemployment traps , as any state benefit aimed just at low-income households will discourage them from earning more or getting a job if it is withdrawn as soon as they do so . |
| 25 | Uncle Philip received Christmas cards and calendars from traders and wholesalers with whom he dealt but he destroyed them as soon as they arrived so there were no cards on the mantelpiece . |
| 26 | When they think they know , they can ask one of their friends and , as soon as they guess correctly , they sit down and watch the fun as the others seek out their own identity . |
| 27 | As soon as one does so , its lips close around it , giving it a firm hold . |
| 28 | As soon as she felt actually drowsy she would turn it off . |
| 29 | As soon as she got outside she examined herself carefully and trembling to see if she see if the spider was still anywhere about her . |
| 30 | As soon as she got home she could n't resist bringing up Moran 's name . |