Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This situation only started to change in the late 19th century as more excavators tried to understand what they were finding . |
2 | It therefore looks as though Swegen wintered in England , and in the following spring perhaps went plundering in the Irish Sea , for one of the versions of the Welsh chronicle known as the Annales Cambriæ records the harrying of the Isle of Man by a Swegen son of Harald in a year which is likely to be 995 . |
3 | So much had happened in the last few months . |
4 | With Lord Hailsham 's retirement as Lord Chancellor in 1988 , Mrs Thatcher alone had remained in the same post and only Peter Walker , George Younger , and Sir Geoffrey Howe had been in the Cabinet continuously . |
5 | In the first place , the working classes naturally wanted to participate in the economic benefits they were helping to produce in the industrial and service sectors . |
6 | But if , by sheer coincidence , all the molecules just happened to move in the same direction at the same moment , the hand would move . |
7 | Bloody-mindedness on all sides soon began to show in the economic performance of the region . |
8 | He very quickly became embedded in the Royal College . |
9 | He too had been influenced by Lyell , and as early as 1855 had published a paper commenting on the fact that new species always seemed to appear in the same neighbourhood as a closely related existing species . |
10 | But the sailors in the northern hemisphere — the part of the earth north of the Equator — realised that there was one star which always seemed to stay in the same place — the Pole Star . |
11 | TWO of the Rugby League 's three relegated clubs Chorley Borough and Nottingham City yesterday decided to play in the new National Conference League next season . |
12 | Revivalism also began to appear in the parallel growth of some of the dissenting churches and , most extremely , in the emergence of extraordinary movements of popular messianism and millenarianism . |
13 | The Frenchman had swept past him , and now tried to turn in the clinging rye . |
14 | Bellybutton , a straw hat over his eyes , danced a few ludicrous steps on the deck of the workboat , thus looking for all the world like a simple Bahamian native welcoming the nice white folks from Georgia who now stood blinking in the bright sunlight beside a growing mound of their designer-label luggage . |
15 | But Stripey rarely chose to sleep in the same place two nights running . |
16 | In all three works it seemed a little too often as if you simply had to programme in the appropriate music , push the right button , and out it came with a pat brilliance , with an irreproachable but impersonal expertise . |
17 | Kenilworth was very different from Warwick ; a great red sandstone ruin that almost seemed to glow in the curious half-light as the storm clouds rolled nearer . |
18 | She and Oliver ran through the downpour to Cobalt 's car and then had to wait in the inadequate shelter of the wall until he arrived . |
19 | An instant later she recalled the forty-year-old lady , who twenty-five years earlier had stood in the same place and had waved at her father in the same way . |
20 | If he categorically refused to work in the same Laboratory as Lorrimer , one of them would have to go . |
21 | In the first half we attacked the Kop end and hopes were high that Crewe would conceed a bagful of goals in the first half when Deane actually managed to score in the 17th minute . |
22 | I never thought to find in the same establishment a Gooseneck , a Ramsbum and a Blitherdick . ’ |
23 | And delighted Blades , who began the season on a month 's loan at Molineux , insisted : ‘ I never wanted to leave in the first place . ’ |
24 | He never wanted to live in the public life . |