Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David tried to work out just when Carole would return . |
| 2 | With she knew not what power of self-denial Sarella tried to edge away so that Marc 's body was n't pressing so vibrantly against her own . |
| 3 | Our own days in the palm-frond houses seemed to dwindle as quickly as sand through a sieve . |
| 4 | I turned to look back once but Mum was nowhere to be seen . |
| 5 | In the 1960s there is evidence that the process of equalisation began to slow down somewhat and statistics suggest that the first oil shock of 1973 actually reversed the trend altogether with disparities tending to widen . |
| 6 | He even began to sing along quietly when Gary played . |
| 7 | Tory business managers began to scurry around anxiously and Sir Nicholas Lyell was clearly taken by surprise and began scribbling notes to form the basis of his speech . |
| 8 | In November 1990 , King Hussein of Jordan expressed concern that the burning of Kuwait 's oil ( an action the Iraqi leader , Saddam Hussein , threatened to take as early as September 1990 if the United States and its allies attempted to oust him ) would accelerate global warming significantly . |
| 9 | I decided to walk as far as Bellanoch where a friend would pick me up for that weakening hospitality again - a dear old Sister Brush who shames me with her eighty-year-old energy , integrity and artistic confidence . |
| 10 | ‘ I started screaming so loudly that crowds ran to the scene which eventually made the policemen stop . ’ |
| 11 | They became worried later on when Guy 's temperature went up dramatically , so he was transferred to a local major hospital . |
| 12 | Never batted an eyelid when we were all wondering where Gebrec had got to … although she did react rather oddly when Dieter showed up , ’ she added thoughtfully . |
| 13 | EUROTUNNEL 'S share price continued to fall sharply yesterday as Andre Benard , the consortium 's French co-chairman , conceded that the £2bn cost overrun on the Channel tunnel was causing ‘ serious problems ’ . |
| 14 | Er and we were getting the impression then we were only , not wanting to decry them Bettaware salesmen or Bettaware people , you had to go round now and stick catalogues through people 's doors and go back and |
| 15 | The Dean and Chapter had recently forbidden parking there and had won as far as cars were concerned , but the local inhabitants had always parked their bikes there and continued so to do . |
| 16 | Some had fared considerably better than others , leading to a differentiated society . |
| 17 | One night we had sat up late while Mum and Dad were at The Golden Cup and had cut up old Christmas decorations into tiny squares and diamonds and then hidden them in envelopes . |
| 18 | Juliet had noticed how David had looked up sharply while Miss Rose was talking . |
| 19 | Yesterday a spokesman for Reg Vardy said the firm and Rolls- Royce had carried out more than £1,000 worth of work to rectify the steering problem , including fitting two new road wheels . |
| 20 | At the time I had to find somewhere quickly and Edouard agreed to it . |
| 21 | The two had met up again when Packford helped on the Wapping Post . |
| 22 | It had been a special childhood , full of laughter and fun ; Mark and she had grown up together as friends , as well as brother and sister . |
| 23 | Although the Nigeria debate was a relative success after a year of criticism , its significance was not lost on Law : it was held on the subject central to Unionist economic attitudes ; Law and Steel-Maitland were singled out for censure , a pointer to the level of party discontent Party feeling had built up much as Law 's own had done ; having fought off the direct attack , he took the party along with him in the effort to reconstruct the government on more businesslike lines . |
| 24 | They had moved there soon after Sir Charles had begun to live in Baskerville Hall . |
| 25 | Afterwards , when Billie had helped clear up and Adam had finished the list of instructions for Lily , they settled down in the living room with a large jug of coffee . |
| 26 | If automobile technology had advanced as fast as computer technology over the same period then the current equivalent BL car , the Metro , would now cost 45 pence to buy , and run for over a year on a gallon of petrol . |
| 27 | Not only men , but women and children too knitted stockings , socks , shirts , gloves , cravats and other fabrics on a frame in their cottage and continued to do so long after steam power had been applied to their craft during the middle years of the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | By the time of the committee 's first meeting on March 5 controversy had mounted further still as allegations were made that " names " working inside Lloyd 's had an unfair advantage in trading at the insurance market . |
| 29 | He had to knock twice more before Mitch heard and opened up . |
| 30 | Instead Rory had found out only when Ken had had his first story published , and now it was as though they were passing each other travelling in opposite directions ; Ken slowly but surely building up a reputation as a children 's story-teller while his own supposed career as a professional recounter of traveller 's tales sank gradually in the west . |