Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Len eventually limped home using a makeshift mast of a saucepan and blanket . |
| 2 | Unable to drive the Syrians out of Lebanon , he merely succeeded in extended the civil war into Christian East Beirut . |
| 3 | The panel apparently chose not to have a permanent chairman on two grounds : first because it was believed that subgroups would quickly emerge to focus on particular issues and events and that these would evolve their own arrangements , and secondly to avoid the possibility of particular individuals dominating proceedings . |
| 4 | Though the incidence of Becker is only one tenth that of Duchenne muscular dystrophy , the three families who refused a biopsy did so on the grounds that while they accepted their son had a muscular dystrophy they preferred to live in the hope that it might be Becker and so chose not to complete the diagnostic process . |
| 5 | ‘ Before him , ’ he said , ‘ people only knew how to make a grey wine or one that was the colour of straw . ’ |
| 6 | But Rolle not only did not have a spiritual director , he had absolutely no intention of getting one . |
| 7 | Declarer obviously did n't appreciate the imminent danger of the club suit and ducked in dummy allowing West to win with the king . |
| 8 | He obviously did n't have the faintest idea it was going on . ’ |
| 9 | He pointedly did not release the 539 delegates he has already amassed . |
| 10 | Noah lived before Moses and so did n't have the Ten commandments as a basis for living righteously ; but he listened to God , and obeyed Him . |
| 11 | The phrase ‘ money talks ’ obviously had n't reached the former communist country . |
| 12 | You could n't care less , one way or the other — you just came here to have a little fun at my expense . |
| 13 | I soon cheered up watching the glorious butterflies going about their business in the hot climate and then cooling down amongst the fountains . |
| 14 | When the war ended the OSS was busted up : they hung on to a few units — there was a whole alphabet soup of SI , SSU , X-2 , CIG , for a time — but most of us just went home to build a brave new world with law books and Shakespeare . |
| 15 | Our annual visit to the New Theatre , Hull , to see Ronnie Hilton in Goldilocks and the Three Bears somehow did n't breed the same addiction . |
| 16 | There was no way for users to communicate their difficulties to designers and systems just did not warn the inexperienced of potentially dangerous actions . |
| 17 | This place just did not have the necessary staff levels for my needs , as I was classed as requiring heavy care . |
| 18 | A lot of parents were refusing to sign she said , ‘ because they admitted they just did not understand the new selection procedure . |
| 19 | Really it is a Cold & Eroded Crack in the Earth 's Crust ; however , Cold & Eroded Crack in the Earth 's Crust National Park just did n't have the right sound for luring Japanese yen , German marks and , should the occasion ever arise , British pounds and Zambian kwachas . |
| 20 | He just did n't look the right sort of boy — in the bathroom mirror he saw his wishy-washy face , freckled and slightly spotty , his wishy-washy blue eyes staring mournfully back ; in no way did the image relate to the brown , sparkling athletes who drank beer after a game of soccer in the commercials . |
| 21 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 22 | He still went on to do an enormous lob over Coton 's head , and what seemed like half an hour later the ball sneaked itself over the line . |
| 23 | The figures published yesterday did not show a 30 per cent . |
| 24 | He said that he had a video which he would bring round , but when he arrived he claimed to have lost it and still did n't provide a written description , so I would n't tell him where the dogs were . |
| 25 | Only then did she realise that , for all she had been in his company for a total of several hours now , she still did n't know the first thing about him . |
| 26 | He felt blood on his face but still did not realise the full extent of the wound . |
| 27 | This House of Lords decision still did not achieve a clear distinction between leases and licences . |
| 28 | By lunchtime the department was manic and the pace relentless but it still did not stop the old man who brought back a kettle complaining it did not work . |
| 29 | After our return from France we felt that we still did not have the complete story of that operation , and so we went to the Public Records Office at Kew to look up the records of 22 Squadron over that period . |
| 30 | At the November hearing , the taxpayer said he had written to the building society in May and August and had telephoned them in September but still did not have the required details . |