Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rather got lost in the rush . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The discussions have been taking place for such a long time that I rather got used to the idea that I should be leaving . |
| 3 | Materials were collected in advance and stored in anticipation of their use ; powder slowly got cheaper in the course of the fifteenth century ; while many towns employed one or more men to supervise the effective use of artillery in case of attack . |
| 4 | Crossman eventually became convinced of the need for more radical action : the Boundary Commission was dissolved and the Royal Commission appointed ( Alexander 1982b:18 — 19 ) . |
| 5 | We sat in our little flat recovering from a good dip in the briny channel and slowly eating some of the delicacy . |
| 6 | A complex settlement of this problem was not reached until January 1983 , when Britain effectively got one-third of the fishing quotas . |
| 7 | It is difficult to assess the effects of the first true humans in rain forests but it has been argued that the Australian aborigines may have been responsible for the removal of some of the Araucaria forest of tropical Queensland , leading to the advance of Eucalyptus there , as well as locally exterminating much of the megafauna . |
| 8 | Through her daze she slowly became aware of the sergeant 's voice . |
| 9 | As his eyes slowly became accustomed to the half-light , he began to make out row upon row of brown tents stretching as far as the eye could see . |
| 10 | Many of course die , but those who survive eventually lose most of the colour and are left speckled , rather than with the definite lines of colour you will find in shop tanks . |
| 11 | On 4 May Parliament endorsed the declaration of war on France and Spain , thereby becoming involved in the War of the Spanish Succession , which had followed the attempts of Louis XIV to install his grandson on the throne of Spain , and his invasion of Holland . |
| 12 | Apart from the fact that the McCarthy purges of alleged Communists had left a bad scar on the film industry , two other developments were eventually to bear much of the blame for the demise of the glitterama of old Hollywood . |
| 13 | Its concern with problems equivalent to those of solving polynomial equations , especially those of degree 2 , led to the word algebra eventually becoming synonymous with the science of equations . |
| 14 | Hillyard , from Dorset , in 1984 , when aged 14 , became the youngest player , to win the world title , after defeating Fisher in the semi-finals — a result which she repeated in 1987 , only to lose 5-1 in the final to the then 15-year-old Farren . |
| 15 | Dusk was falling swiftly , as it always does in the tropics , and the silence that had so impressed me by daylight suddenly became noisy with the night life of the jungly-type trees in the mountains behind-the bull frogs , strange bird cries , the never-ending background of the cicadas . |
| 16 | Rupert suddenly became aware of the danger signals and quickly tried again . |
| 17 | Perhaps Philippa or the femininity of her chamber had reminded Cranston of Maude for the coroner suddenly became bellicose with the girl . |
| 18 | She looked about her vaguely , trying to envisage the future , and suddenly became conscious of the wonder of a life which contained such a precious element as sure joy to come . |
| 19 | For example , the placing of the head : a dynamic , powerful man should be made to fill the canvas , whereas children 's heads are better placed low on the canvas . |
| 20 | He grabbed it and held it before his face and in doing so spilled most of the powder all over the front of his fancy tweed jacket . |
| 21 | So Mr Chris Patten , if he hangs on at Bath , and Mr William Waldegrave , who has a safe seat , had better stay clear of the bar . |
| 22 | There was also the practical reason to provide convincing reasons why so many men were possessed of so little or no assessable ‘ substance ’ , and in the subsidy to justify the assessments of wages which only became effective in the absence of taxable goods , and , moreover , masters were responsible for the payment of their servants ' taxes . |
| 23 | It would need to be replaced overnight , in time for another test flight — and , because insurance cover only became active on the granting of a certificate , it would cost £600,000 to do it . |
| 24 | Christ 's birthday only became important for the Church when infant baptism replaced adult baptism . |
| 25 | I only became aware of the truth when in July Grace wrote from the front to let me know that Charlie was being sent home following the second battle of the Marne . |
| 26 | From the 1860s onwards the Commons , Open Spaces and Footpaths Preservation Society campaigned to save Britain 's rural heritage so that city-dwellers could be revitalized through contact with Nature ( a campaign that only became realistic in the era of rapid transportation by rail ) . |
| 27 | He penned the 1964 stage play , Curse of the Daleks , and spent two years writing all the back page Dalek comic strips for TV 21 , only to see much of the credit for all the above going — with the royalties — to Terry Nation . |
| 28 | Only got two in the box though . |
| 29 | After we 've made that hole in the top we 'll lift the fuselage high enough to drain most of the water from it . ’ |
| 30 | The head of the House of Niccolò , who had considerable reservations himself about Father Ludovico da Bologna , was content enough to remain unmolested through the Mass , and the procession back to the Palace , and even the banquet itself , although that presented different pitfalls . |