Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He thought back over the last few hours , the acknowledged relief of talking to Alice , the knowledge that nothing shocked her , nothing surprised her , that everything he did , if not right in her eyes , was judged by a different standard from the one she rigorously applied to the rest of her life . |
| 32 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 33 | There was a red light up , and he was stopped by a policeman as he reached the opposite pavement and duly asked for the appropriate number of marks . |
| 34 | In their place she pinned up a poster of a starving black child and a chart which eventually recorded a handsome donation to the Biafran famine relief fund , amassed by the girls from a summer fair , Christmas carol-singing and a sponsored fast during which Suzie Chamfer histrionically fainted in the lavatories . |
| 35 | Then , in 1988 , traces of 10 were found in Vietnam 's Nam Cat Tien swamp , where they presumably lived through the war . |
| 36 | Many species live , and presumably lived in the past , in inland or upland sites where little sediment accumulates . |
| 37 | It appears that he had a recurring dream in which he was told , " Socrates , be an artist " , a command which he ignored at first , supposing that nothing could be a higher " art " than his own philosophizing , but eventually complied with by writing some poetry while waiting for death in prison . |
| 38 | With the exception of some early state papers in private collections and most notably , the very extensive India Office records , which effectively ceased to be produced in 1948 , the Special Collections of the British Library are for the most part private in their origin and unpredictable in the manner and timing of their acquisition . |
| 39 | Right got ta make sure she sends me a birthday card . |
| 40 | We now know that during the Saturday daylight raids on London , a chiefs-of-staff meeting took urgent action on deciding that invasion was likely within a few hours ; they had the code word ‘ Cromwell ’ flashed from the War Room to military units at 20.07 hours that evening ( which presumably led to the flap at my unit ; the station commander was away that weekend , and the acting CO in charge ) . |
| 41 | Near him was a door which presumably led to a room beyond . |
| 42 | Several doors opened off the landing and there were ladder-like stairs which presumably led to the attics . |
| 43 | This gate presumably led to a quay , or docks , and there are references to it in some Saxon charters . |
| 44 | The civil disorders and dynastic feuds between Lancaster and York presumably led to some destruction of wealth , although it is virtually impossible to judge how much . |
| 45 | They rarely succeeded in making an antislavery question into a diplomatic issue , though they occasionally tried to exploit an existing issue for antislavery purposes . |
| 46 | Somerset 's arrest in 1549 did not , as many expected , return the conservatives to power , but rather led to the primacy of John Dudley , Duke of Northumberland , who in alliance with Archbishop Cranmer eliminated the remaining conservatives from the council . |
| 47 | I brought my heel down on his instep , and then caught his forehead with my knee as he instinctively doubled with pain . |
| 48 | We had notice of Sarah 's barrenness even before it properly got under way ( 11.30 ) . |
| 49 | He provided Gordon with excellent feedback from the track and by now he rarely got into trouble on the circuit . |
| 50 | I rarely got beyond this point in my sales patter before expressions of incredulity replaced polite interest . |
| 51 | WHYTE Crucial clearances but rarely got to grips with Hateley or McCoist 6 |
| 52 | The entries in the diary should be supported , wherever possible , by evidence such as copies of staffing schedules , menu sheets , stock records , reports , etc. produced during the working day . |
| 53 | With your wonderful knowledge of the Bible , Mr. Deputy Speaker , you produced the Lazarus motion which revived them all from the dead and they eventually passed on their way through the House . |
| 54 | He slowly straightened to his full height and she realised he had been sitting on the bed leaning over her . |
| 55 | Shamed by having to say no whenever I was asked if an urgent document could be dispatched to me down the telephone — feeling badly outfaxed in fact — I had finally succumbed . |
| 56 | Burton was in a hit — and a classy hit — and in the tonnage of reviews he rarely failed to be mentioned , often praised . |
| 57 | They rarely lived in the countryside , but their investments brought them prestige as well as profits . |
| 58 | This might throw light on his uncomplimentary nickname too , and on how , as the charter S 933 of 1014 reveals , " the attacks and plunderings of the evil Danes " gave him possession of a Dorset estate of the church of Sherborne , which he eventually sold for a great price in gold and silver to a friend of the monks , who returned it to them . |
| 59 | The notable successes of the women 's branch under Anderson 's leadership , particularly women inspectors ' ‘ substitution ’ for men inspectors during World War I , paradoxically led to the demise of the women 's branch in 1921 , when women and men inspectors were ‘ fused ’ into an integrated inspectorate . |
| 60 | His success in winning the confidence of the people in one of Bristol 's poorest areas paradoxically led to his dismissal . |