Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] with [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cranston , the wineskin now surprisingly empty , only replied with a short stream of belches . |
| 2 | Instantly , the reaching figure became a puppet , jerking backwards in a pirouette that suddenly collapsed with the abrupt finality of cut strings . |
| 3 | Our client had it in telephone conversation with the bank on ninth of September only proceeded with the proposed purchase on the express understanding that Frinton property was not to be included particularly as his father 's companion a Mrs eighty years of age , was residing in the property and owned a half share of it . |
| 4 | He was puzzled for a moment , then he suddenly remembered with a slight feeling of shock . |
| 5 | I tried to stare my dislike into him but I must have been unsuccessful for he merely said with a primitive accent : ‘ Good in auto , yes ? ’ and grinned . |
| 6 | A faint smell of Deller 's factory floated in , the air nicely spiced with the usual scent of smouldering rubber that was being burnt somewhere . |
| 7 | Roman looked at her in a way that made Claudia want to curl up and die , and she was n't on the receiving end , only tarred with the same brush . |
| 8 | In these terms , each of the schools investigated generally complied with the Coordinating Team 's criteria for inclusion in the Minor Project . |
| 9 | The heat of summer was beginning to gather its strength , and the day outside hummed with the gorged drowsiness of the flies . |
| 10 | When the bill came , Maitre Perreyve paid it cheerfully , and Anthony Everard , demurring to begin with , finally capitulated with a gracious closing of the eyes in acknowledgement . |
| 11 | The breadth of Mingus ' work is represented by everything from jug-band jollity , the wounded blues of ‘ Atom Bomb ’ featuring Rolling Stones Watts and Richards , Henry Rollins ' hipster piss-take on ‘ Groovy ’ and the bad blood and subterranean tremors of ‘ Erectus ’ , effortlessly contrasted with the tingling majesty of ‘ Love Bird ’ . |
| 12 | Amal and its allies had also performed strongly in east Lebanon and Beirut ( with Amal 's former Shia rival Hezbollah winning eight seats in all ) , and thus emerged with the largest bloc of deputies in the new 128-member National Assembly . |
| 13 | Morgan , hammered down 22 aces , including one to bring up his first match point after more than two hours , which he coolly converted with a bludgeoning service winner . |
| 14 | Each covered his river valley with a new castle , wooden at first but soon replaced with a substantial stone structure . |
| 15 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 16 | A MAN appeared in court yesterday charged with the attempted murder of a teenager whose throat was slashed at a car boot sale . |
| 17 | Man accused of attempted murder Neil Wilson , 26 , of Bardon Court , South Shields , appeared before South Shields magistrates yesterday charged with the attempted murder of Martin Elliott , 24 , of Calf Close House , Jarrow . |
| 18 | STEVEN Littlewood , 27 , of Bridgewater Avenue , Latchford , Warrington , was remanded in custody at Warrington magistrates court yesterday charged with the aggravated taking of a Ford Escort XR3i cabriolet , causing the death of 19-year-old Julian Osborne , of Dorchester Road , Hood Manor , Warrington , causing Osborne 's death by dangerous driving and driving without insurance . |
| 19 | His cheeks still tingled with the woody-scented aftershave lotion he had slapped on them . |
| 20 | Opting out of a policy which costs each family of four over £1,000 a year would certainly do much to help the farming industry regain the esteem it once enjoyed with the general public . |
| 21 | Six months after his leg had been broken , he still walked with a perceptible limp , and this morning he looked harassed . |
| 22 | These usually began with a stern injunction to rise at 6.30 a.m. , first task to clear out the embers from the fire ( yet another pointer to the fire as the heart of the home ) and relight it . |
| 23 | In the same speech she said that she wanted her government to be remembered as one ‘ which decisively broke with a debilitating consensus of a paternalistic Government and a dependent people ; which rejected the notion that the State is all powerful and the citizen is merely its beneficiary ; which shattered the illusion that Government could somehow substitute for individual performance ’ . |
| 24 | Gardner , now recovered from serious injury but still niggled with a nagging wrist , and his fellow-Australian Mick Doohan lead the Rothmans Honda challenge . |
| 25 | Lambing time usually coincided with the busy spring work resulting in the full-time farm wives having to put in long hours , often in poor weather conditions . |
| 26 | Nor would Morse be forgetting the only man who had not been present at the meeting — the man who still lay with a wicked headache and a barely touched breakfast-tray beside him in Room 201 , to which room Shirley Brown had shepherdessed him when , after his unexplained absence , he had reeled into The Randolph the previous night . |
| 27 | Mr Getty , by omitting the letter ‘ i ’ , reduced Colin 's Christian name to a monosyllable , while Colin contrived to get three separate sounds into the name Paul , which he always spoke with a rising inflexion . |
| 28 | Tranmere were restricted to the occasional breakaway which usually ended with an offside decision and Nixon came to their rescue again when he swooped to his right to hold Wright 's shot . |
| 29 | He usually sat with the prompt book , next to Miss Thorne . |
| 30 | A declaration in April by the governing coalition emphasized the environment , social progress and social justice as major planks in the coalition 's programme , and disagreement later arose with the federal government in Bonn concerning among other matters the SPD/AL coalition 's proposal to ease restrictions on asylum-seekers arriving in West Berlin . |