Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes violence took place , which only added to an already bitter situation . |
| 2 | I apparently walked at an unusually early age but was slow learning to speak . |
| 3 | He slid his hand to her hip , where it gently rotated in a maddeningly sensual rhythm . |
| 4 | Some of the Scotsmen talked of getting Ramsey as Bishop of Edinburgh but not enough of the Scotsmen wanted an Englishman and no doubt there were those who wondered whether this professor who lived among clouds of glory would make a bishop who perforce lived in a too real world . |
| 5 | Although this mandate was frequently enough abused , it nevertheless rested on an ultimately selfless foundation — on something originally intended to foster the common good , rather than to foster autocracy . |
| 6 | Fortunately , this soon declined to a more tolerable rate . |
| 7 | ‘ Or maybe she just learned from a more rational neighbour that the real Delia has been abroad for six months . |
| 8 | Ambitions soon melted under an unseasonally hot sun . |
| 9 | ‘ It always seemed like a pretty big deal to me , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The days lost in strikes rapidly fell to a much lower level than at any time since 1918 . |
| 11 | It was the band 's last date before cancelling the rest of their European tour due to Kurt Cobain 's ravaged voice and , although messy in places , their performance still heaved with a sometimes dangerous , sometimes carefree sense of abandon , enough to be a vivid reminder of just why this band had meant more than any other for years . |
| 12 | In time , these became domestic spirits and usually appeared as a rather homely married couple . |
| 13 | She made several ‘ women 's ’ films for Rank , including STREET CORNER ( 1953 ) about the women police in Chelsea , which she always cited as a particularly enjoyable experience since it involved working with a mainly female crew and cast . |
| 14 | He also embarked on a much publicized affair with Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel . |
| 15 | His colleagues , working on the flight data and cockpit voice recordings , will be able to feed in much data , also recorded against a very accurate time base which can be synchronised with the radio transcript . |
| 16 | He also called for a more concerted moral drive to check the spread of AIDS ( acquired immune deficiency syndrome ) in Africa . |
| 17 | The blood level of this mineral also fell from a very good healthy level to the lower end of the normal range . |
| 18 | Sir Keith Joseph offers a flexi-time history according to which , in the same speech where he entertained the spectacular belief that Britain 's streets had been plunged into insecurity ‘ for the first time in a century and a half ’ , he also conjured with a more modest timescale whereby ‘ such words as good and evil , such stress on self-discipline and standards have been out of favour since the war ’ . |
| 19 | The National War Labor Board was set up in 1942 to settle the disputes that inevitably rose in a more directed economy . |
| 20 | I think people in the British churches , and probably outside them , twenty or thirty years ago lived in a rather secure world and they understood that God was on the whole on the side of the British Empire and the missionaries as they went out to civilize other places , and that was true also of the other European forms of God . |
| 21 | The starting-point of that digression in time and place was that of leased prisons and the problems they increasingly raised for a socially responsible legislature . |
| 22 | De Quincey frequently dreamt of a fantastically elaborate and labyrinthine building . |
| 23 | My joy of getting into Halton was short-lived , In the first term I was up before the Head , a delightful fellow called B , A , Smith who kindly explained in a most embarrassed way that in spite of appearing to have satisfactory results in other departments , my school results were as poor as he could recall in all his experience . |
| 24 | Ally McCoist missed an early sitter and then equalised with a beautifully flighted chip after Mark Hateley had set things up . |
| 25 | In remarking upon the obvious nationalist inflexions which characterize Stanford 's Irish Rhapsodies and the Symphony in F minor , the Irish , we then turned to a very different area . |
| 26 | In the face of imminent deadly action , she sometimes reverted to a more basic style of utterance , recalling her original primitive tribal society . |
| 27 | The careers of the bourgeois world were indeed open to talent , but the family with a modest amount of education , property and social connections among others of the middle rank undoubtedly started with a relatively enormous advantage ; not least the capacity to intermarry with others of the same social status , in the same line of business or with resources which could be combined with their own . |
| 28 | One theory has it that the island was long ago to the west of its present position and that its north-south axis then lay in a more north-easterly direction . |
| 29 | If Cnut was primarily responsible for the expulsion it would show that he sometimes dealt in a fairly high-handed manner with ecclesiastics who incurred his displeasure . |
| 30 | He waited until Dickie had reached the foot of the stairs and then said in a very loud voice , ‘ Who is that fellow ? |