Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would rather musicians took the latter course — and so , I bet , would you . |
| 2 | Discreetly Emilia dropped the unwanted chestnut in the snow and gathered the collars of her coat about her . |
| 3 | Slowly Pat tore the brown paper apart . |
| 4 | For long Germany had a political inferiority complex because of her failure , as Germans saw it , to develop into a nation-state along the lines of the countries of Western Europe . |
| 5 | None the less Pascoe examined the likely branches conscientiously and as always in such cases , the satisfaction of expectation was a disappointment . |
| 6 | In reply , Greenidge and Richards hammered 88 in even time , but then only Murray made a substantial score , his 64 being joint top with Richards and 41 more than it should have been had a catch been accepted ; 308 all out . |
| 7 | So the nurse said to the sister she said he 's got a bit of jaundice , but they were whispering and Pete said well dad , so mum said no bloody jaundice she said , he , he |
| 8 | Perhaps Edward expected no other outcome , and indeed preparations for another campaign in France were well in hand when the treaty was concluded . |
| 9 | " If only Toby had a little money or a proper job — he 's a sweet boy , but " |
| 10 | So Katie made the following comment shortly after she had picked up a card showing Mitch from Baywatch : |
| 11 | So accumulation played the decisive role in maintaining favourable demand conditions . |
| 12 | But perhaps Alida knew the remaining Misses Lavender best , after all . |
| 13 | So Ruth made the rich mixture and in turn the three of them stirred it , reciting meanwhile the collect for the Sunday before Advent . |
| 14 | Susan did n't get up that day , so Breeze had a great deal to do . |
| 15 | For the first half of the fifteenth century , Gascony was under less pressure , probably because Henry V 's campaigns had shifted the bulk of military activity to northern France , but even so war had a serious effect on wine exports . |
| 16 | Regardless of fluctuations , BBC1 reflected closely the class composition of the population as a whole ; ITV had a working-class skew right from the start ; all channels ( especially ITV had a female skew ; and all had an age profile considerably older than the population as a whole ( in the 1970s , on the other hand 5 — 14 year olds had watched the most ) . |
| 17 | Polanski used the club as his base and as an access point to its abounding supply of beautiful women ; just as Hefner 's Playboy mansion in Los Angeles was a magnet for the bright young things of Hollywood , so Lownes established a social whirl that attracted the cream and the elite of off-beat London society , plus some very famous names , eventually to include Nicholson himself . |
| 18 | Or perhaps Argol had an enlightened policy towards young people . |
| 19 | Perhaps Nostradamus epitomised the spiritual principle : to him who has and employs , will more and more be given . |
| 20 | It teemed down , so back came a soaked Charlie and 1265-X . |
| 21 | Suddenly Harry felt the narrow cell so filled and overfilled with his own dread and hatred that he could hardly breathe . |
| 22 | So Gabriel sang the first thing that came into his head — loudly : |
| 23 | The one o'clock news included a brief statement that a man had been detained early that morning while attempting to board a cross-Channel ferry at Dover and was helping police with their enquiries into the murder of Angelica Caroli , found stabbed in her Gloucestershire home the previous Thursday . |
| 24 | So Vadinamia became the safety-deposit world . |
| 25 | Guy 's low voice had a hypnotic quality which had a strangely calming effect on Lucy , but even so Virginia had an appalling fear that everything was going to be far from all right . |
| 26 | And so people had no other option but to go out to work . |
| 27 | So Macedonia entered the United Nations under the temporary name of ‘ the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia ’ . |
| 28 | They bought half excuse me half of it and they lived in the basement , then the other half came up for sale so Peter bought the whole lot then |
| 29 | In the first half of the century only Britain had an annual rate of urbanisation of more than 0–20 points , though Belgium almost reached that level . |
| 30 | Only monotony granted a certain grandeur . |