Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NIBA too had to battle all the way against the PBA , but they only failed on one rink — that skipped by Rathfriland 's Gary McIlroy was beaten 26–14 by Eamon McCann . |
| 2 | She only asked for one word to be removed . ’ |
| 3 | But I probably only used about five guitars in total . |
| 4 | But the pastor only came for one service every two weeks even then , in the war . ’ |
| 5 | Nevertheless , our weekly bill for provisions alone came to 25 shillings , or half of our total income . |
| 6 | In my day we treated our old heroes right and they only played for 10 bob a week . |
| 7 | He only played in four Tests but the sweater ( and his knotted silk scarf ) became his uniform . |
| 8 | Nothing apparently happened for two months after the Institute 's delegation . |
| 9 | One tall girl with curly hair only hitched for two minutes before a smiling family picked her up . |
| 10 | The next top up was n't so good as it only worked on one side and all the pain was concentrated in one place . |
| 11 | As Cnut himself only died on 12 November 1035 , it looks as though Alfred , and doubtless Edward too , were poised to act . |
| 12 | We only went for two days . |
| 13 | Mattlock 's business judgement was vindicated by Cotton Town 's sales : it only went into one printing . |
| 14 | A lot of chemical reactions are actually reversible , but the tend to be mainly going very much in one direction , so we just say we just write it as though it only went in one direction . |
| 15 | I was n't there very long cos I only went in one class in Road School . |
| 16 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 17 | The fieldwork data basically fell into three categories : that which I felt could definitely be published , that which could definitely not be published , and that which I was unsure about . |
| 18 | We report a formerly healthy boy who suddenly died at 11 months after a Reye-like syndrome . |
| 19 | A measure os Stoddards ' strength in depth was the fact that if their two non-counting scores were added in , their average only fell to 31.3 points . |
| 20 | I only put on ten pounds — in fact I did look rather skinny amongst all the other opera singers . |
| 21 | The most recent was in the early 1980s , during the first couple of years of the Thatcher government but that only lasted for 18 months . |
| 22 | She only had about fifty pence left from the money she had borrowed from her stepfather the day before , but she hoped that the young Italian barman , who fancied her , had not yet been sacked or moved on and would give her a margarita , free . |
| 23 | So that was my life , I only had about two years in |
| 24 | It was now 9.00am , they only had about one hour 's fuel left , enough for 180 miles at the most . |
| 25 | We only had about six folks watching us though . |
| 26 | He soon got through 90 guilders , which his father thought an excessive amount . |
| 27 | Also I just played on six tunes on Bruce Hornsby 's new record , with Bonnie Raitt and Phil Collins . |
| 28 | Each sample was loaded onto a C8 reverse phase silica cartridge with metal frits ( Bond-elute , Anachem ) previously prepared with washes of methanol and water at pH 3.5 ; washed with 1 ml each of HPLC grade water , 10% ethanol and hexane , and finally eluted with 1 ml of methanol . |
| 29 | She was bright and she was presentable , which meant that she already scored on two counts over the help that they 'd hired last year . |
| 30 | ‘ We just came for five years … ’ : writings about young life in Jamaica and adult life in England . |