Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life . |
| 2 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 3 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 4 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 5 | Wordsworth , on the other hand , placed more value on Nature as a religious and moral agent ; he began those speculations about the meaning and direction of his own life which eventually built up into The Prelude . |
| 6 | I only got out of the hospital because of an old unclosed file , and a doctor from the outside who took an interest in my case . |
| 7 | If I suddenly swanned out of the bathroom in satin , Nick would have a fit . |
| 8 | They only found out about the marriage afterwards and used it to strengthen their case , which was , basically that the Archbishop could n't have someone teaching in a school in Clontarf who was the author of a banned book . |
| 9 | I only found out about the Japanese this morning . |
| 10 | The Instruction ( Nakaz ) which Catherine personally drew up for the guidance of the deputies who made up this Commission was a conflation of ideas drawn , with little alteration , from West European writers , particularly Montesquieu and Beccaria . |
| 11 | Dunlop , giving his new Honda : which only came out of the crate on Thursday : its first run , finished second to Paul Harbinson in the first race before beating Stephen Farmer and Gary Dynes in the second race . |
| 12 | ‘ I only came in on the red , raw minute , ’ she said , ‘ so you 'll excuse me , madam . ’ |
| 13 | Others hated and ignored them , saying they only came down to the city to steal . |
| 14 | The presbyterians also had misgivings , and only came back into the system in 1838 when they were practically guaranteed control of their own schools within it . |
| 15 | Erm I suppose what we ought to focus on , is not so much the details of the ethnography so came up from the study , but erm but some of them are almost thieves |
| 16 | When Ceauŝescu personally came in on the act they faked a car accident and tricked up a couple of bodies for the Securitate to send back to England . |
| 17 | Luch hated that task ; Ranald loved it — he never seemed to get sick , though there was aye less came out of the bowl than went in . |
| 18 | And she suddenly turned back in the direction they had come and ran all the way , her wet shift slapping against her bare legs . |
| 19 | Orwell 's socialism would reflect the democratic virtues characteristic of the English working class — ‘ the genuinely popular culture … that goes on beneath the surface , unofficially and more or less frowned on by the authorities . ’ |
| 20 | He had almost resigned himself to the fact that this cop was too cautious to be caught out like the one he had almost jumped five nights previously , when without warning the man below stepped out from the shelter of the deep doorway . |
| 21 | Georg looked at her and for a moment she thought he was going to grab her , thought he was going to cry himself , but he suddenly stormed out of the dairy and began to stride up towards the lower pasture . |
| 22 | He carried on flying , looking for a place to land and so flew back to the wireless station and decided to land in a field next to it . |
| 23 | Allan , too , had qualified but poor Todd Bennett pulled a hamstring in the home straight and literally leapt out of the Championships . |
| 24 | Jessamy shakily got to her feet , took a couple of very deep breaths , then stubbornly went over to the door . |
| 25 | I really only went along to the interviews for a lark , as company for a friend . |
| 26 | Then , after dealing with the Grand Slam Cup and explaining how he only went along with the idea after insisting that the event would also produce $2m for the development of the game in ‘ third world tennis countries , he went on : |
| 27 | ‘ But the lift buttons only went down to the ground floor . ’ |
| 28 | From that point on he only went down to the hospitals ‘ as and when required ’ . |
| 29 | He stayed there , watching it taxi away , and only went out to the cab rank when the plane had actually taken off . |
| 30 | When teachers , matrons , the housemistress and finally the headmistress all started to show some concern and more disapproval at my unco-operative ( anorexic ) behaviour , I refused to answer their questions , or even to talk to them at all , and during the course of their homilies I merely stared out of the window or smiled to myself in a superior , scornful sort of way . |