Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a young deb visiting her brother at Oxford , she first met the rather moody , womanising Baron Michael de Stempel . |
| 2 | I met the most determined teenage resistance ever . |
| 3 | In this day room we again met the most interesting folk . |
| 4 | Here he met the most notable trade unionists of the area , some of them with national reputations . |
| 5 | We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’ |
| 6 | We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’ |
| 7 | In Chapter 5 we met the more sophisticated idea of the evolutionarily stable set of genes . |
| 8 | Although the Bois became notorious as the place where the respectable of society met the less respectable , it was nevertheless , in some sense , an extension of the Court itself , for the carriage outings of the Emperor and the Empress formed part of the spectacle : |
| 9 | The most precious lacked the no less vital requirement of uniformity . |
| 10 | As a subject , travel photography was immensely popular from the beginning , if you could n't do it yourself , you could always buy a print or two which depicted the more interesting scenic points of your journey . |
| 11 | As a subject , travel photography was immensely popular from the beginning , if you could n't do it yourself , you could always buy a print or two which depicted the more interesting scenic points of your journey . |
| 12 | Still using the flashlight , he perched the case on his desk , took out his key ring , used the two keys which unlocked the specially reinforced bottom right-hand drawer . |
| 13 | Others were not inclined to be as sensitive as Mara : ‘ I say ‘ Good for Di ’ , ’ opined the loudest at a table of women . |
| 14 | It was on the tip of Breeze 's tongue to ask what was the matter , but she knew that Susan would condemn that as being too impulsive ; so she endured the very uncomfortable atmosphere for the rest of the drive . |
| 15 | One shop in the Isle of Man , which never did any stocktaking , unearthed the most wonderful collection of 1920s toys . |
| 16 | Michael Palin played goody goody headmaster Jim , Robert Lindsay the deeply insecure bad guy allegedly not based on militant councillor Del Hatton — both lent the vastly ambitious saga the power and sympathy crucial to flesh out Bleasdale 's artful comic polemics . |
| 17 | ‘ We have , I believe , passed the most difficult point , ’ Mr Waigel said . |
| 18 | They applied the well established ploy of neutralising the troublemaker by proposing him for the position of chairman , where he is obliged above all to be impartial . |
| 19 | When casually distinct we shared the most |
| 20 | Trembling , he hugged the most worn and shortened of the punches to his heart , thumbing its point , and wrestled with the words of compliance that rose all too readily . |
| 21 | Somehow he made the softly growled question sound incredibly intimate . |
| 22 | Inset below Pulled and pushed tourists made the rather undignified scramble up the pyramids in the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | The new democratic notions of his countrymen clearly made the traditionally harsh maritime discipline difficult to enforce . |
| 24 | You could say that , somehow , he made the most convincing of the would-be-leaders ' speeches . |
| 25 | But the weird thing about this supposedly ‘ shock admission ’ is that everyone made the most dreadful fuss when she said she intended to ‘ go on and on and on ’ . |
| 26 | The enamoured Mr Thompson made the most elaborate water gardens to complement the house , with an aqueduct , canals , fountains and cascades . |
| 27 | It was the picture of public squalor which accompanied private affluence that made the most immediate impact on the thinking of the time . |
| 28 | In the event , it was the Prime Minister who made the most personal attacks on her challenger in a series of last minute newspaper interviews . |
| 29 | Right from that very first day in France you made the most tremendous impression on me , Alison . |
| 30 | A very striking example of a philosopher dominated by the visual metaphor is Descartes , of all the one who made the most radical attempt to break away from the preconceptions of common experience and establish knowledge on purely rational foundations . |