Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a wonderful memory and recalled much that happened in both world wars . |
| 2 | Mr Havel , who has a genius for pinpointing the absurd , smiled gently and sipped at some mineral water . |
| 3 | But there it is , and outside and foreign firms will put money in , especially if subsidized by temporary government measures , for as you know , public investment in private industry is judged to be ideologically correct , while public investment for public and community concerns is judged ideologically to be harmful , but the firms are interested in making money out of the region if I may so put it , not in sustaining world promotion and healthy living in the region . |
| 4 | Lynch made amends before long and equalised from close range , but that was all the reward Southwood were to see for their efforts . |
| 5 | There is no classical explanation for the slowing down ; however , the rate of energy loss is exactly that expected via gravitational radiation . |
| 6 | After they had eaten and sunbathed a little , they cleared everything away and moved to another hedge to pick more berries . |
| 7 | Hopelessly she walked outside and stood in bright sunlight wondering what to do ; a few thoughtful seconds later she knew . |
| 8 | From her student days Pavlova was fired by stories of her legendary predecessor Marie Taglioni , who had travelled widely and appeared to great acclaim in St Petersburg during the 1837–9 seasons . |
| 9 | She chewed , oh , so delicately and reached towards another dish . |
| 10 | After several minutes had passed without her finding a familiar landmark , Luce realised she must have gone wrong somewhere and tried to double back . |
| 11 | These sudden rages , which he attributed to his head wound but which may have been connected with the suppression of inherited melancholy , always passed quickly and disappeared in late life . |
| 12 | He sat very still and spoke with quiet ferocity . |
| 13 | Julia took Annunziata 's hand at once and said with desperate urgency : |
| 14 | He was upright but fell to unmanly worship : |
| 15 | Rain walked past them all , turned left and went through open glass doors to a terrace . |
| 16 | Margaret of Carlisle , 47 , was widowed two years ago and knew at first hand the financial problems that can arise from the sudden death of a loved one and the trauma of finding that her partner was inadequately insured . |
| 17 | What ways did the families differ then that lived in those sort of houses to the families that lived in the terraced houses ? |
| 18 | And the night that it was over we met in our quarters , we poured a drink and we stood there and looked at each other and he said well , we made it . |
| 19 | I drew a peg in the bend which I had drawn some years before and knew there were a few fish there and decided on one rig only — the pole . |
| 20 | As a protest some people never really made any attempt to get on with their writing project but just sat there and chatted to each other . |
| 21 | The offended Titan lumbered forward and stamped upon one Raider , crushing it underfoot . |
| 22 | Stooping to fasten an encrusted claw under the bottom of the car beside the ruined driver 's door , it straightened again and heaved with incredible strength . |
| 23 | She flushed brightly and fidgeted from one foot to the other . |
| 24 | I feared as well that Mills might not be dead after all , that he 'd recovered miraculously and decided for some reason not to go to the police . |
| 25 | specifically and tailored to that child . |