Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [vb past] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I mean , when I was living with her we just had all these arguments cos , you know , I just never got any peace ! |
| 2 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 3 | I no longer saw any warmth in numbers . |
| 4 | It had dawned on me that not only was I leaving the comfortingly familiar surroundings of primary school but that I no longer had any influence whatsoever on the other pupils at the school which I had had before but I was to be demoted to ‘ the annoying first year ’ . |
| 5 | In waking life it was too strong to allow me to indulge myself in secret feasts , and I no longer felt any desire for them . |
| 6 | Er I never actually had any part in it but I heard tales about er the rivet boy in particular , the they would er they would give him a wage equivalent to what they thought was was a was a reasonable wage for him , because of the fact that they were on piece work , he had to see that the rivets there on time . |
| 7 | I very much enjoyed this change of life , especially the 15 a week , of which I was allowed to keep half-a-crown . |
| 8 | It is notable that , on the final French campaign of 1449–50 , carefully and confidently organised by the king , and carried out by a much-reformed army , the majority of fortified places did not resist , preferring to open their gates to the side which not only controlled more firepower but claimed with greater vigour to represent legitimate and effective rule . |
| 9 | The beginning of this century produced phenomena which equally emphatically showed that light was made up of tiny particles . |
| 10 | She was going to speak about a person , who not only walked this earth two thousand years ago , but walked beside his followers in the twentieth century . |
| 11 | If the centre could no longer deliver the goods , reasoned many Ukrainians and Belorussians , the union itself no longer had any purpose . |
| 12 | She no longer felt any animosity towards him and was moved to tenderness by his obvious misery . |
| 13 | It had all put her in Glyn 's power somehow and she no longer had that feeling of independence she had fought so hard to gain . |
| 14 | She no longer had any idea what it was she wanted to say to him . |
| 15 | Her expression showed that she no longer had any time for jokes . |
| 16 | She had never given him any reason to feel suspicious , and she certainly never encouraged any impropriety with the carmen and dockers who came regularly into the dining rooms . |
| 17 | We also occasionally observed some ambivalence or uncertainty on the part of the person initiating the divorce . |
| 18 | Neither Tandri nor Yong knew — and we were not about to tell them — that we no longer had enough money left to make a single call . |
| 19 | It was seldom worth tangling with wizards , they so rarely had any treasure worth speaking of . |
| 20 | She goes on to say that the justices came to the view that the justice on the Friday had had no power to remand Mr. Bell in custody until the Monday , as the remand did not fall within the terms of section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 and that , accordingly , they no longer had any jurisdiction to hear the matter . |
| 21 | They no longer liked this cereal . |
| 22 | ‘ They never really knew each other . |
| 23 | Andy and I never did get properly told off for what happened , and he hardly ever mentioned that day to me unless he had to . |
| 24 | And it often explicitly contrasted that nature with that of woman . |
| 25 | He quite possibly made that catastrophe recede by denying the aggressive Chinese access to Russian secrets . |
| 26 | It quite rightly earned this status through the determination , commitment and insight of its founder director Sue Davies . |
| 27 | The Magician who Lost his Magic by David McKee is a story which is popular with young children ; it tells the story of how Melric the Magician , woke up one day to find he no longer had any magic . |
| 28 | More interesting than any of this , though , was the dog which was allowed to bark in the night , presumably on the grounds that it no longer had any bite . |