Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |
| 2 | As they crept slowly forward over the plain his eyes searched for those tiny villages made of mud with their bamboo groves and their ponds ; and though the plain was perfectly flat the villages were somehow hidden in its folds , blending with it . |
| 3 | He liked what he saw of the school and got on well with the Chairman of the Governors , a fellow classicist . |
| 4 | I got on well with the teachers there before I went to Bridge Road . |
| 5 | Ex-US Army paramedic Matthew Brafman , 33 , had ‘ a reasonable bedside manner ’ and got on well with the patients at the geriatric hospital where he worked . |
| 6 | Both Rachel and Nina got on well with the men , who in turn liked and respected the nursing team , and usually there was an easy-going air of camaraderie in the centre . |
| 7 | And I enjoyed it , it was quite good , I got on well with the staff . |
| 8 | We got on well from the moment we met and we still see each other from time to time , and talk for hours about the good old days . |
| 9 | It arose most acutely in the United States which welcomed immigrants but also put pressure on them to turn themselves into English-speaking American citizens as soon as possible , since any rational citizen would wish to be an American . |
| 10 | As Athelstan and Benedicta rode slowly back across the dark , choppy waters of the Thames , Adam Horne left the Crutched Friars monastery near Mark Lane just north of the Tower . |
| 11 | Many thatched cottages were built on the brow of a hill overlooking the sea ; and a large potato-field , divided into elongated sections , gave ample scope for many Lewis families to prove that union is strength , for they were busily engaged lifting the crop : each family group was complete in itself ; those who had the most children got most quickly over the ground : many hands make light work , and young backs bend easily . |
| 12 | The broad gauge lived on only in the Paddington to Penzance expresses , corresponding goods trains and services on feeder lines . |
| 13 | Mrs Roberts , indeed , who felt completely disoriented , clung on absurdly to the reality of Martin Parr . |
| 14 | Bernard Gallacher seemed quite unconcerned , however , and it became clear why during a press conference held in Switzerland . |
| 15 | The triumph of Atlanticism , however , became clear only towards the end of the 1940s , driven by necessity and the absence of more appealing alternatives . |
| 16 | The gun roared and the clay disintegrated somewhere out over the field . |
| 17 | So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest . |
| 18 | A belief in daemons or evil spirits led on naturally to a need for exorcists ; exorcism , it is reasonable to assume , became one of the priestly functions . |
| 19 | Then he kicked his horse forward and led on out of the yard . |
| 20 | If just a single layer is used it will be stitched through to the outer shell of the bag at intervals and sometimes stitched right through to the lining on cheaper bags . |
| 21 | He was ‘ Lord Haw-Haw of Hamburg , in the darkest days of the war when Britain fought on alone against the might of the Fascist dictators . ’ |
| 22 | A plainclothes policeman got leisurely out of the panda car and walked across the road to them . |
| 23 | She got wearily out of the car and tramped across the car park to the reception lobby , where she asked the receptionist with peroxided hair if she could phone the AA . |
| 24 | Of all the cities in the north , Milan was the one that expanded most rapidly in the period up to 1100 . |
| 25 | His partners , brought to the sticking point , agreed , somewhat reproachfully , and passed on firmly to the question of who was going to take over which of Angela 's clients . |
| 26 | The guard did as he was told , then stood back , watching as Tolonen limped slowly across to the corpse . |
| 27 | Then clutching his suitcase , he tottered down on to the platform . |
| 28 | That succeeded only partially in the setting , but the costumes were attractive . |
| 29 | As he says to one of their tools : When Buckingham presents his credentials for deceiving the London citizens it is in the same theatrical-Machiavellian terms as Richard : But Buckingham himself is deceived , as we realized long ago in the flurry of insincere praise that Richard heaped upon him : Buckingham should have known that such effusiveness from a hypocrite can only bode ill . |
| 30 | Darren , 21 , said : ‘ The smoke was very dense , so I got down low on the floor and pushed the kitchen door open . |