Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our parents long since disappeared into the vacuum of the war . |
| 2 | Nevertheless Allied airpower was probably the decisive element in determining the outcome of the war , with Iraq 's aircraft so effectively neutralized in the opening stages as to be seldom a factor at all . |
| 3 | He had seemed to sniff at the opened envelope as though it carried some scent , but the letter inside only peeped from the teat and was not taken out . |
| 4 | Depression clamped itself round Melissa 's head and shoulders and the meal she had enjoyed so much lay like a stone in her stomach as she drove home . |
| 5 | The next morning , after I had drunk some coffee and sat for an hour with the first suggestions of boredom stirring inside me , the Feldwebel who had enjoyed the ride in the Mercedes so much came to the door . |
| 6 | Er in fact it was put to me as as an option by Superintendent that this could be , if this could be done er at the time er if I recall one of the reasons erm that we were n't able to do it in such a way was that there are numerous exits to the block of flats and each exit would have had to be covered by at least two armed officers we only only had in the region of twenty five officers available to us at that time in the police who were authorised to be armed and to maintain such a surveillance , erm not only would be very costly in the terms of the number of officers . |
| 7 | She did not go into details : that she found herself so physically revolted by the process that she had begun to retch , nor despite being warned that all new mothers had a fit of the blues after giving birth , she had been crying most of that day . |
| 8 | I did n't look it I just stood there apparently fucking splattered against the wall , dribbled down and I did n't fucking . |
| 9 | He 's certainly saying I find a pattern here because he 's using it , as his pattern to understand and I only just said at the beginning what the , makes the Jews Jewish , what gave them their national character and their , their ethnic identity . |
| 10 | It may thus be possible that binding of pou[c] to this motif is mostly directed by the POU HD and perhaps further stabilized by the POU S . |
| 11 | Shapour Bakhtiar , 76 , who had briefly been Prime Minister in 1979 ( Jan. 3-Feb. 5 — see pp. 29740-44 ) in the last days of the Shah 's regime , was murdered at his home in a Paris suburb on Aug. 6 ; French police only discovered his body on Aug. 8 , together with the body of an aide apparently also killed in the attack . |
| 12 | The Italian press and the Ferrari team were furious , their fury only slightly lessened by the fact that Niki 's championship cushion still seemed ample . |
| 13 | He so often searched for the positive , supporting and standing up for CUM and Bermondsey . |
| 14 | Dean Rusk and others in Washington were not happy to find the British ambassador so often closeted with the president . |
| 15 | The steward was elderly , experienced and intelligent , and though he was custodian only of one of the minor properties in Leicester 's huge and international honour , by the sharpening glint in his eye he was in his lord 's confidence , and well acquainted with the mysterious and elaborate coffin so strangely jettisoned in the forest beyond Ullesthorpe . |
| 16 | Shifting from a position of criticism of Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait , public opinion has swung to the other extreme , of hero worship of Saddam Hussein , not so long ago viewed as an ally of India rather than of Pakistan . |
| 17 | The smoked-glass doors of Swift were closed and the Mercedes had long ago pulled into the traffic , but she just kept seeing it in her mind , Damian striding along with his arm around the beautiful Domino . |
| 18 | He exhaled thoughtfully then sat in the armchair in the corner of the room . |
| 19 | A splendid Arctic picture with snowy mountains , icebergs and so on had as a centre-piece a small hole in the ice with a board saying , ‘ Danger ’ . |
| 20 | The network of warm nuances , security , so important to the weekly meeting , the ‘ sisterhood ’ of which they all so proudly spoke outside the group , was no longer the fine-spun filigree in which air and light and communication were held . |
| 21 | Perhaps neither knew of the other 's commitments . |
| 22 | High densities of up to 100 000 m -2 have been recorded on moss turf in the South Orkneys , and on warm summer days ponds in South Georgia are occasionally covered with a grey film of collembola , apparently newly emerged from the soil . |
| 23 | Still , it was particularly unnerving , somehow , to find her naked body so closely enfolded in a garment that had done the very same thing for him — strange , personal , intimate . |
| 24 | The patient described here took an overdose not long after her marriage somewhat unexpectedly came to an end . |
| 25 | The proposed million dollar match due in March between Monica Seles and Jimmy Connors , apparently never got beyond the talking stage . |
| 26 | A series of ‘ Famous British Film Stars ’ of 1946 , now worth £5-£10 each , apparently never got off the ground . |
| 27 | Dressed in a white shirt and trousers , and with his white hair and a face apparently never submitted to the sunshine , he looked as though he had been rolled in flour preparatory to cooking . |
| 28 | Its unified parliament , the House of Representatives , comprised the 159 members of the North 's former legislature and the 111 from the South , plus 39 members appointed on March 24 , mainly to give representation to opposition political parties which had been prohibited in the North and only recently legalized in the South . |
| 29 | Once the guns had gone , the black-uniformed Prussian cavalry waited in the town north of the river , reinforcing the brigade of infantry that ransacked the houses near the bridge for furniture , which they rather half-heartedly made into a barricade at the bridge 's northern end . |
| 30 | Dad was fond of whisky , but normally only drank on an evening when work was done . |