Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to go on for a very long time . |
| 2 | ‘ It seemed to go on for an awfully long time . |
| 3 | Because the fingers within her own warm hands ceased to flutter agitatedly , a brief smile flickering over the other girl 's pale face as she seemed to drift off into a more comfortable , easy sleep . |
| 4 | He 'd been there first , waiting , and I 'd walked up to the carefully prominent bait and presented him with a perfect target , a broad back in a scarlet sweater , an absolute cinch . |
| 5 | They seemed to stretch back for a very long way and Nuadu , narrowing his eyes , trying to find his bearings , thought that they must go back and back into the hillside behind the road and deep within the earth . |
| 6 | They turned to look up at the hastily nailed boards that had replaced the shattered windows . |
| 7 | I turned to look back at the softly gleaming , parallel surfaces converging towards an oblong of dimly lit structures , an oblong much taller and narrower than any doorway . |
| 8 | It was barely three months after her arrival in the village when her life began to pitch over from an even keel , and it remained from then onwards at a pitched-over angle . |
| 9 | Butler could n't adapt to his new defensive role , and Chapman began to look around for a more solid defender , not necessarily a player with much technical skill , but one who could clear accurately under pressure , feeding the ball to an inside-forward . |
| 10 | I do n't like doing movies anymore but I really enjoyed this , ’ and he did come up with a very eloquent retraction , which no one printed . ’ |
| 11 | Ten years later , of course , he did come out after a rather agonizing process and he is now a gay activist himself in South London and the Labour Party . |
| 12 | The metaphysical poets of the 17th century were rarely interested in pastoral as a game and preferred to move on to a more realistic way of expressing their discontentment with the mercantile age they lived in . |
| 13 | It was as though everyone had dashed off on a far bigger , far better story than they had covered in their lives . |
| 14 | Round it a prolific jungle of weeds had grown up in the otherwise bare yard . |
| 15 | Godwin and his circle had grown out of a relatively broad tendency within the rising industrial bourgeoisie , but was then , as a specific formation , forced into crisis — into a dissidence verging on rebellion — within a general crisis of the social order , itself still politically directed by another class , the ruling landed aristocracy . |
| 16 | By 1912 , however , the influence of Matisse and the Fauves , which the Brücke had grafted on to a more purely native form of Expressionism , was definitely on the wane , and German painters were feeling the influence of both Cubism and Futurism . |
| 17 | Widespread evidence indicated that it had burnt down in the later second century . |
| 18 | Three years before this , Yale University Press had brought out in a very handsome volume called Make It New seven essays representing Pound 's criticism at its most scholarly , on such recondite topics as Cavalcanti , and Elizabethan Classicists , and early translations of Homer . |
| 19 | But the Grand Emissary had swung up in the very newest model of the Novablast Personaluxury Liner , making me feel like a meteorite next to an asteroid . |
| 20 | Whereas Vidor had started out with a theoretical notion and then wrapped it in a melodrama , Capra had started out with a fairly ordinary story and then breathed charm , wit , pace , sex , and reality into it , not least by harnessing the natural talents and showmanship of Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable . |
| 21 | She looked very vulnerable and Emily wished that they had started off on a more pleasant footing . |
| 22 | There are changes in technology : electronic systems take over from the electromechanical mode typical of ‘ mass culture ’ ( just as that had taken over from the purely mechanical production and distribution methods of the earlier bourgeois period , epitomized by music printing ) . |
| 23 | She had thrashed around like a freshly caught trout on a grassy bank . |
| 24 | Instead of the old concept of teaching , according to which the teacher , possessed of superior powers and superior knowledge , attempted to pass on to the more able of his pupils that non-practical culture which would most benefit them personally , a new class-room communication should be envisaged . |