Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 But now it seemed terrible that they should be able to talk so naturally while Dr. Lorrimer lay there dead upstairs .
2 Pitch and enveloping , it still manages to thunder along now that Dean Garcia has binned a large chunk of the previously dominant rhythmic backing tracks , thanks to drummer Monti , whose role in the group was always criminally hidden before .
3 EUROTUNNEL 'S share price continued to fall sharply yesterday as Andre Benard , the consortium 's French co-chairman , conceded that the £2bn cost overrun on the Channel tunnel was causing ‘ serious problems ’ .
4 In any case he has forbidden us to go back there and Mrs Gracie has to walk her pug herself .
5 ‘ I am trying , ’ he says , ‘ to bowl as fast as Whacker Eunice . ’
6 It did n't see to matter that the match was still in progress and was to end up even when Tom Watson , Mark McCumber , Lanny Wadkins and Curtis Strange beat Sam Torrance , Gordon Brand Jnr , Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam .
7 However , this must have been countered by an urgent request from Butcher as two days later Miller sent his servant with a note , agreeing to meet at Bedford House by four o'clock in order to get as far as St Albans that evening .
8 ‘ The length of a cricket pitch , and you had to move as fast as Denis Compton , believe you me , to get from one end to the other and pull them levers . ’
9 Tory business managers began to scurry around anxiously and Sir Nicholas Lyell was clearly taken by surprise and began scribbling notes to form the basis of his speech .
10 The Sunshine Girls were the only troupe to travel as far as St Petersburg and Budapest but it was noticeable that they rarely worked at the Winter Gardens which was Jennie 's stronghold .
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