Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of going to France and turning into reality something which for so long had seemed a dream was now a concrete possibility . |
| 2 | Mr O'Connor said the campaign so far had taken a lot of time and effort , with mixed results . |
| 3 | Shocked is making plans to sail with her father , who long ago began building a boat , until marriage and fatherhood distracted him from finishing it . |
| 4 | They had to find those to visit by answering a cryptic clue and once inside had to answer a question . |
| 5 | Going home really did seem a possibility . |
| 6 | Against this pessimistic background , the Care in the Community optimism about the possibilities for long-stay patients to live more independently seemed to betoken a change of central thinking . |
| 7 | He was unrecognizable at this distance , but the woman who followed him a moment later only had to take a couple of steps for Pascoe to know that this was Gwen Evans again . |
| 8 | First impressions lasting longest and all that , when 4AD 's Boston Seethe Party first toured the UK in its full label package glory , while the Pixies were the kind of nutters you 'd gladly go joyriding with , The Muses … well , the Muses were the kind of band you respected from afar and near really wanted to share a six-pack with underneath the baseball park grandstand . |
| 9 | Conversation thus tended to be laconic and allusive and it sometimes scarcely seemed to possess a thread of connection between one remark and the next : this was however an illusion , seductive enough to a stranger ignorant of background , all the more so to a stranger not fully in command of the language . |
| 10 | Although it was a powerful but very generalized recognition of the properties of tribal art that first struck Picasso during the following years he also became familiar with a wide range of its artefacts and almost immediately began amassing a collection of his own . |
| 11 | To be quite honest man , I 've never really , never really did see a problem . |
| 12 | Not bad for a first international race and the Liphook company director never even had to change a wheel . |