Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rather foolishly ran round the Staffordshire moors on Saturday with the perhaps to be disbanded 5th Battalion Light Infantry from Shrewsbury and caught a heavy cold . |
| 2 | Our parents long since disappeared into the vacuum of the war . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | And when their great Emperor Gia Long finally rose from the Mekong delta a century ago to unify all the peoples from Saigon to Hanoi , had n't he triumphantly renamed his new empire " Viet Nam " ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , he only once travelled with the England party , to Rome in 1933 , when he gave the team a tactical talk before their clash with Italy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His Lordship thought that it would be a strange doctrine of " looking for the substance " or looking through the documents which would produce a contractual intention so clearly negated by the documents and by oral evidence . |
| 16 | He so often searched for the positive , supporting and standing up for CUM and Bermondsey . |
| 17 | Dean Rusk and others in Washington were not happy to find the British ambassador so often closeted with the president . |
| 18 | I could give many other examples which would kill once and for all the idea so often propounded by the opponents of local income tax that such a tax would not benefit people on the lowest incomes . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Only one old woman killed , and she with a frightful goitre and her husband long ago disappeared in the hills . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There was nothing visible downstairs where we were , so immediately went up the stairs at the side to the production level where the blast had come from , and there we met a group of people who had just come out of the control room and they were cut and suffering from shock 'cos the blast had obviously well it d nearly blown the control room apart . |
| 23 | He exhaled thoughtfully then sat in the armchair in the corner of the room . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Perhaps neither knew of the other 's commitments . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | On 18 March 1925 a disastrous fire swept through the museum , destroying not only the carriage but also its setting : the Napoleon Room and much else disappeared in the flames . |
| 28 | The proposed million dollar match due in March between Monica Seles and Jimmy Connors , apparently never got beyond the talking stage . |
| 29 | A series of ‘ Famous British Film Stars ’ of 1946 , now worth £5-£10 each , apparently never got off the ground . |
| 30 | 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 . |