NO SOONER + past perfect – than – English Grammar Profiler

In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 56 in PAST perfect simple is defined as:

invert the subject and auxiliary verb with ‘no sooner … than’ to talk about something that happened immediately before something else, often in formal contexts

This is quite a rare structure.

1 NO SOONER HAD HE SAID 30 2 NO SOONER HAD I FINISHED 30 3 NO SOONER HAD HE FINISHED 22 4 NO SOONER HAD I GOT 17 5 NO SOONER HAD I SAT 17 6 NO SOONER HAD THEY ARRIVED 17

7 NO SOONER HAD WE GOT 17

1 NO SOONER HAD THE WORDS LEFT 16

8 NO SOONER HAD HE GOT 15 9 NO SOONER HAD SHE SAID 15

10 NO SOONER HAD HE MADE 14

NO SOONER HAD THEY REACHED

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12 NO SOONER HAD HE ARRIVED 13 13 NO SOONER HAD HE LEFT 13 14 NO SOONER HAD HE SPOKEN 13 15 NO SOONER HAD HE TAKEN 13 16 NO SOONER HAD I STARTED 13 17 NO SOONER HAD HE REACHED 12

18 NO SOONER HAD HE UTTERED 12

19 NO SOONER HAD I POSTED 12

20 NO SOONER HAD I SAID 12