Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You only met her yesterday morning and she was dead before dinner . ’ |
| 2 | The workers for whom employers competed were not merely the ones with the bargaining strength to make unions practicable , but also those most aware that ‘ the market ’ alone guaranteed them neither security nor what they thought they had a right to . |
| 3 | The activities of illegal immigrant vessels were as manna from heaven to the media who naturally gave them much publicity . |
| 4 | Since the birth of their sons , Felix ( now aged four ) and Max ( one ) , the Roberts were lucky enough to take over the raised ground floor which not only gave them more space but also allowed them vital access to the garden . |
| 5 | One lady positively adored her little Chihuahua , Poco , for 15 years , but the time came when he was persistently ill and she knew that she had to save him from further suffering . |
| 6 | Well , for instance , that she lived in a in an old vicarage , cos her husband had been a a , no a tri , priest in the Church of England and er we her house was haunted and she was telling us stories and sh she quite often saw the ghost , she was never worried , she never cos it never frightened her it was n't vicious or anything like that and she often saw it quite matter of fact . |
| 7 | Although the army now had its largest-ever establishment of 85,000 men the great majority were serving overseas , but Pitt tried to offset the shortage of troops by increasing their mobility . |
| 8 | When you were working here did you always kind of ? |
| 9 | Surkov silently offered me more claret but I indicated a bottle of Perrier . |
| 10 | Just lack of food and bad temper coming together , which never did her any good . |
| 11 | Father shook his head sympathetically , but said , ‘ Temper , Kit , never did anyone any good . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Guilt never did anybody any good , did it ? ’ she asks across three thousand miles . |
| 13 | So I said yeah I can do so he said bring your van down , so I never said nothing so Bob said , got any like your dad had |