Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This eventually became institutionalized as the UN Centre on Transnational Corporations , which now has the difficult task of trying to reconcile the interests of the TNCs and the communities eager for their investments ( see Caplan , 1989 ) . |
| 2 | She banged against the crate heavily and the one on top of it which had been badly placed fell onto the ground so that some of the bananas spilled out around her feet . |
| 3 | She very rarely got told off and when she did it upset her . |
| 4 | By the time they had brought the dead down into Cegidfa , Iorwerth was also dying , with the priest from the church kneeling by him ; and before noon one of the other two worst wounded followed him . |
| 5 | The director had a knack of giving elegant voice to exactly the thought that was currently in poorish shape at the back of Arthur 's head , and this was infuriating , though to feel resentment at having your skull so stylishly looted seemed small-minded and a blunder of taste . |
| 6 | Slowly Georg got out of the van , looked around to make sure there was no-one who knew him , then he walked quickly across to the station restaurant , entered , and hid himself quickly in a booth that had a view of the rails . |
| 7 | I duly promised crossed my heart and — spat which was the custom of small boys at the time — and I never did break that promise to Dad Tam whilst he lived , and to this day I believe in my heart that the figure overlooking Princes Street Gardens is in the image of my father , complete with a handsome Kitchener moustache . |
| 8 | She nodded grave acknowledgement of all my instructions , then disappeared below for five minutes , eventually returning swathed in one of the vast , padded and multi-layered foul-weather coats , and carrying a mug of coffee . |
| 9 | The customs establishment was one of the more extensive branches of the eighteenth-century bureaucracy , and the fact that its officers were necessarily widely dispersed enhanced the attraction of the service for freeholders , burgh councillors and their friends , for an appointment in their home district was not an unreasonable objective . |
| 10 | So developed did the cult of personality in Northern Nigeria become that even in dealing with rude and warlike pagans it was bad form to stoop to securing their acquiescence in the will of the government by resort to force . |
| 11 | So swollen did the self-confidence of the House of Lords become that in June 1990 it rejected a measure ( the War Crimes Bill ) already decisively passed by the House of Commons on a free vote , the first such confrontation since 1949 . |
| 12 | Tests on earlier buildings so treated revealed that up to one in twenty houses soon showed signs of damp penetration . |
| 13 | No , no , especially if you 've only got one daughter and it only goes threw once and , I mean the list is so long . |
| 14 | When passive smokers were divided into high and low exposure groups on the basis of the amount smoked by their cohabitees , those highly exposed had higher rates of symptoms and death . |
| 15 | So bang went any chance he might have had of hearing things he did not know . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , I was left to ponder whether to have healing or not to have healing , and so concerned did I become that in the end , a wise man from the Quakers was summoned to give a judgement of Solomon . |
| 17 | But that was no longer true at election time : as the election approached the highly educated became less interested and the less well educated became more interested ( Chapter 2 ) . |
| 18 | The horses all looked spruced up for the occasion with plaited manes , even the two disgruntled piebald ponies on which perched two identical solemn-faced small girls . |
| 19 | I could n't stand me 'ome gettin' tore ter pieces , an' they 're so smelly , ’ she moaned . |
| 20 | The bronzes that the Chinese so eagerly collected came from burials and were usually covered in a fine green patina . |
| 21 | Indeed , the Shahs failure to so do had caused his downfall . |
| 22 | Nine four we 'd better do had n't we ? |
| 23 | Cathbad did not contribute very much to the meetings , and so Lugh did not pay him very much attention . |
| 24 | In a muddled way , he expected that she might fall into his arms , that he would be able to comfort her and that one thing would lead to another ; and so absorbed had he become in the effect Sam 's death would have on his own affairs , that he had forgotten that it might have some other effect on Martha 's . |
| 25 | George III favoured the Tories , and in so going attracted the criticism of Whigs and radicals . |
| 26 | In fact , so accomplished had he become that he changed his career from lorry driver to architectural joiner , and kitchens became a part of his stock in trade . |
| 27 | The only guy who would have been stupid enough to buy went overboard and drowned last year . ’ |
| 28 | There was a professional choir as well as the children , and the sound of hymns being so brilliantly performed made the Foundling Hospital chapel the most popular place of worship in London . |
| 29 | The sums so entrusted made them a power among London houses subscribing to public loans , particularly during the wars of 1744–63 . |
| 30 | We were glad to reach Rangoon which at that time of the year , early March , was very hot , and so Pop sent us up to Taungin-in the Shan States where we stayed with a delightful elderly American missionary , Miss Hughes . |