Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This concept , brilliantly and amusingly elucidated in book of that name published the previous year by Professor C. Northcote Parkinson , stated : ‘ Work expands to fill the time available for its completion . ’ |
2 | It was probably at that time that Zborowski took Modigliani to visit Anders Osterlind , a Swedish painter whom Modi had met in Paris years earlier when they visited the Cézanne retrospective together and almost cried with excitement . |
3 | Bloodier , longer and also fought over Champagne soil was the struggle between Hugh Capet and Charles of Lorraine for the French throne . |
4 | Clutching a hot water bottle prepared by Mrs Knelle , I finally and thankfully snuggled into bed . |
5 | Sodium hypochlorite is also rapidly and completely inactivated by dirt and all other organic materials including detergents . |
6 | Well he was as far as I can remember he was thirty eight he , he went he worked at the Gas Works , ca n't remember much about that really but er I think he 'd actually been working nights and came home and actually died in bed I believe . |
7 | Accordingly the time was changed : I went in at 9 p.m. and often stayed until midnight or past . |
8 | Lawyers should be fairly and reasonably remunerated for work done under the legal aid scheme . |
9 | High red serpents swayed up to hang for a lingering minute and fade ; busy green heads with white tails thrashed hither and thither and then dived to death . |
10 | The clerk ignored him but now and then shouted in Arabic and a customer came forward to collect a form or a tattered bundle of money . |
11 | in these years [ 1964–1970 ] … the pressures generated within the post-war system substantially and visibly escaped from control . |
12 | Further , if Lawrence 's celebration of heterosexuality is dependent upon a repression of , a disavowal of , and a displacement on to , homosexuality , such passages are animated by a homoerotic desire consciously and artistically sublimated into heterosexuality . |
13 | These regimes , however , are recent creations , for the most part crudely and poorly grafted onto society ; in some of these countries , the ‘ permanence ’ of their socialist transformations is questionable . |
14 | ‘ My grandmother would have been a hundred and forty this Christmas , ’ Doris began again and then lapsed into silence . |