Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Onions , left to go to seed , displayed magnificent fluffy heads , and a host of chirruping birds fluttered excitedly about the varied riches of the wilderness . |
| 2 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 3 | Devlin got up and they walked out to the terrace . |
| 4 | Father Devlin got in alongside him . |
| 5 | As Schellenberg and Devlin got out , a sergeant emerged from the hut with the radio mast , and hurried towards them . |
| 6 | Scales got up from his seat at the table in Wycliffe 's little office but Wycliffe waved him back . |
| 7 | IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC got together at the Open Software Foundation 's Challenge'93 shindig in Boston last week to demonstrate their implementations of the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 8 | She could hear parts of the conversation between the two lost souls , and when Tess went back upstairs , Mrs Brooks crept quietly up to listen outside the bedroom door . |
| 9 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 10 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 11 | Bones and Whizzo stayed where they were , too tired to move , but the spotty mare got up . |
| 12 | They were also trying too hard , Maria realised quite soon , and she thought Luke was equally aware of it . |
| 13 | Throughout the Depression the NUAW clung on to its existence by retaining the rump of its membership — no more than 25000 — in its East Anglian stronghold . |
| 14 | Urquhart 's muffled groans became more frantic . |
| 15 | The hare was running and the Atom lived up to her name and blasted clear . |
| 16 | GCCS made particularly good progress breaking the Japanese naval attaché cipher traffic , both in London and elsewhere in Europe , since many foreign cable companies routed their signals through repeater stations in places like Malta where GCCS could acquire all interesting traffic without having to go through the charade of obtaining a warrant . |
| 17 | SENSIQ MADE PURELY FOR YOU |
| 18 | As I understand the position , the duty in negligence arose purely from the fact that the wife was also a customer of the bank . |
| 19 | And when the film 's director , Alfred Hitchcock , threw a party at his house , Clift became so drunk that his co-star Karl Malden carried him out in his arms . |
| 20 | There was one hold-up after another and all the time Clift became more and more frail . |
| 21 | Lisa beamed confidently as Vass gathered up her sketches and handed them back to her . |
| 22 | Faggots made today are not a patch on Mrs. Farrer 's . |
| 23 | This time , he hardly landed a blow as the majestic Christie cruised home . |
| 24 | The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines . |
| 25 | The current law of malicious damage produced far too erratic and uncertain results . |
| 26 | Most towns and villages in the rest of the county had already turned to the association game by the turn of the century , but before 1907 their enthusiasm centred around their local teams . |
| 27 | Lines of humour fanned out from his mouth , and his teeth gleamed whitely in the darkness . |
| 28 | His even teeth gleamed falsely , vividly in the intense sunlight . |
| 29 | The contract came to grief and the projects passed briefly through another restoration house , then into the Tallichet storage facility in Chino , California . |
| 30 | When the ‘ phoney war ’ ended and British aircraft were shot down in larger numbers , the camp became too small to hold all aircrew prisoners . |