Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |
| 2 | As they crept slowly forward over the plain his eyes searched for those tiny villages made of mud with their bamboo groves and their ponds ; and though the plain was perfectly flat the villages were somehow hidden in its folds , blending with it . |
| 3 | Bitterness , frustration and jealousy crept slowly in and only proud bar room nostalgia ( ‘ I remember one night when me and Pete Shelley got pissed and spent the night in Piccadilly Gardens … ’ ) remained . |
| 4 | The two men were no longer at the bottom of the stairs , and , envisaging all sorts of dramas , including murder , she crept slowly down . |
| 5 | Lord 's connection with his ground ceased rather abruptly in 1825 . |
| 6 | With so many commitments it is understandable that he ceased rather early in his career to show his work in public exhibitions , but he still found time to pursue other interests . |
| 7 | My own diagnosis — male menopause with too much of the flesh pots — failed most miserably . |
| 8 | At the level of policy implementation , impact centred on carefully demarcated areas . |
| 9 | He went on to obtain plates centred on about 1300 selected areas scattered uniformly over 75 per cent of the whole sky , on which he was able to recognise some 44000 galaxies down to apparent magnitude about 20 . |
| 10 | Its colour void led to clean , efficient lines which had an appeal that passed right down to the high street . |
| 11 | This finding has an anatomical correlate : the dendritic fields of cells in the octopus optic lobe tend to be elliptical with their major axis oriented predominantly horizontally or vertically . |
| 12 | This image presumably registered most strongly among those sections of the population whose exposure to ideological ‘ schooling ’ was greatest — particularly , therefore , among committed members of the Party and its affiliates . |
| 13 | Eric and I had to restrain him at times when he wanted to do something like throw little Paul into the water to see if he 'd float , or like when he wanted to fell a tree over the railway line that goes through Porteneil , but as a rule we got on surprisingly well , even though it rankled to see Eric , who was the same age as Blyth , obviously in fear of him . |
| 14 | And I got on swimmingly with them . |
| 15 | He says er an er a while after he said to he he said , Did you ever know how you got on here , at agency ? |
| 16 | What you got on here ? |
| 17 | Who else we got on here ? |
| 18 | That was all right then , April thought , and got on again with her pastry rolling . |
| 19 | They got on remarkably well as friends . |
| 20 | The two boys got on remarkably well , playing violin duets , and engaging in friendly contests of virtuosity . |
| 21 | When all three of them were together they got on remarkably well . |
| 22 | Her parents got on badly , and she described her mother as extremely cold and rejecting . |
| 23 | They got on badly , they were unhappy with the school , so they did n't try . |
| 24 | The down-to-earth Hoffman and the ethereal Farrow got on reasonably well during the shooting . |
| 25 | You can tell me how you got on today and I can start making some enquiries . ’ |
| 26 | And they stood at the door , and of course he come home with his cap in his hand , he said er they said oh what you do how you got on today ? |
| 27 | I ca n't see them two paying out for somebody to look after it and I can not really I can not Seasons , well what you got on today ? |
| 28 | In truth , Diana got on rather well with Adeane , who introduced her to many of the women she accepted as her ladies-in-waiting while she was an enthusiastic matchmaker , continually trying to pair off the difficult bachelor with unattached ladies . |
| 29 | Yes , we got on exceptionally well … |
| 30 | They got on exceptionally well over a bottle of whisky which the expatriate had brought as a gift . |