The party had no sooner started than it began to rain.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

As soon as the game started, it began to rain.

As soon as the game started, it began to rain.

The party had hardly left when it began to rain.

I was waiting for the fireworks to start when it suddenly started raining.

Not a drop of rain fell for a month, so they had to dig a well.

Hardly, had we started when it began to rain.

Hardly had we started when it began to rain.

I'd hardly started to work when it began to rain.

I'd just started to work when it began to rain.

I'd just started working when it began to rain.

I'd hardly started working when it began to rain.

I had hardly started to work when it began to rain.

I needn't have watered the flowers. Just after I finished it started raining.

I needn't have watered the flowers. Just after I finished, it started raining.

The party had no sooner started than it began to rain.

I need not have watered the flowers. Just after I finished, it stared raining.

It appears that this region received more rainfall in those days than it does today.

"Will it stop raining soon?" "I'm afraid not."

Hardly had the rain stopped when the ground began to freeze.

Hardly had I started when it began to rain.

Scarcity of rain doesn't always [automatically, necessarily] mean a bad [poor] crop of rice.

Not a drop of rain fell for a month, so they had to dig a well.

After a long spell of dry weather, it rained with a vengeance [《米俗》 like all get‐out].

The range of hills and houses dotted among them formed a harmonious whole in the haze of light rain.

Scarcely had I started out when it began to rain.

"Will it stop raining soon?" "I'm afraid not."

It began to rain harder and harder.

The farm ponds have all dried up from lack of rain.

The rainy weather is murder for this business.

I had not gone very far when it began to rain.