Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At dinner the undergraduate in his second year got on well with the ex-prime minister , which is a mark up to both sides . |
| 2 | He trusts me , we got on well in the old days . |
| 3 | Nisbet , with his first goal of the season , ultimately revived Rangers ' European ambitions and no matter how fortuitous his strike was , it may yet turn out to be of inestimable value to an Ibrox team who clung on bravely in the closing stages . |
| 4 | A few crofting families clung on there until the 19th century but the island is now uninhabited . |
| 5 | The excavators at Silchester and Caerwent had found great quantities , but regarded it as merely so commonplace and ordinary , that they hardly bothered even to mention it , thus ignoring the important principle laid down earlier by the great Pitt-Rivers , who attempted to record everything he found ‘ however small and however common … common things are of more importance than particular things , because they are more prevalent ’ ( 1898 , 27 ) . |
| 6 | Kate walked out , and climbed the shallow stairs that led so comfortably to the upper floor . |
| 7 | Beyond it lay Nubia , and beyond that the Land of Punt , an almost legendary region which the Egyptians penetrated only briefly in the imperial years of the New Kingdom . |
| 8 | Her choice of leading man in this Thorn Birds -style shocker revealed much too about the new , confident Kylie . |
| 9 | The military rode roughshod even over the Ukrainian Bolsheviks . |
| 10 | the device remained popular for a century after its invention , finding particular favour in France , where , according to one account , it sold so quickly at a fair in Paris that the stallholder was hustled out of town by the young men of the city who saw their favourite quarry rapidly being locked away . |
| 11 | It is perhaps easier to work with the Germans , whom Britain fought so bitterly in the first half of this century , than with the French or the Italians , whose active roles in the Second World War were prematurely curtailed . |
| 12 | Horrified … and yet strangely relieved and satisfied , and tingling with primitive energy and release , she turned on her heel and threaded so nimbly through the crowded guests that she reached the French doors that opened on to the side veranda before Greg had recovered enough to take a single step . |
| 13 | Public enterprises have been forced into a greater orientation to the market by increasing exposure to competition and a relaxation of their statutory monopolies : a strategy used most notably by the post-1979 Conservative government in Britain . |
| 14 | Very often they moved on again after a short stay , for they found that reality was harsher than their dreams . |
| 15 | The little , now indistinguishable dark patch , gave a jump and then moved slowly forward into the uncertain light . |
| 16 | Scottish merchants grumbled rather more about the new dispensation ; they were perfectly willing and able to be Europeans , but any outlet for trade would do , and there were complaints — in 1524 , for example — about the Auld Alliance with France , because it affected their opportunities not only in Flanders and Spain , but also in England . |
| 17 | During the 1930s , however , it was the Conservatives who capitalized most effectively on the larger consequences of the Wall Street Crash , using them not only to bring down a Labour Government and introduce tariffs aimed at imperial consolidation , but also to promote among the masses the spirit of patriotic self-congratulation so eloquently projected by Stanley Baldwin : |
| 18 | A water vole swam vigorously across from a little island , its round face and bright eyes showing above the water . |
| 19 | Max appeared disappointed by the reply as he peered down again at the grisly work on which he was engaged . |
| 20 | I only pray that the vision which he grasped so clearly for the local church might be taught clearly and then caught by the whole Church of England . |
| 21 | These chaps , good blokes who 've spent all their lives running businesses , believed the government manifesto and thought that if they shouted loud enough in the local paper , Whitehall would crumble and right would prevail . |
| 22 | A similar displacement occurred much earlier in the New World where the enconomienda system was established in Latin America and a plantation economy in the Caribbean islands , both of which suddenly displaced local cultivators . |
| 23 | When it got within spitting distance of Mafouz , who was now standing , arms loosely apart , mouth open , as if hypnotized by the thing 's movements , it did a sharp turn to the left , bounced along horizontally for a few yards , and then snarled up and down to land on the unfortunate boy 's head . |
| 24 | The actual differences between the highest paid and the lowest paid have in fact changed only marginally in the past thirty years , and it is still broadly true that the richest 1 per cent of income earners enjoy a gross pay which is about four times greater than they would receive if income were to be equally distributed among the total working population . |
| 25 | The wide street rose gently westward towards the prominent hill on which Stowey 's long-vanished castle had stood , and a Quantock stream , which drove the Stowey corn mill , flowed through a deep stone gutter on the street 's southern side . |
| 26 | During the show that night , she tried so hard in the second song , which was now ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ that her voice cracked on ‘ No rosebud is nigh ’ . |
| 27 | He drove so smoothly and the tyres hummed so pleasantly on the tarred road that she knew she could easily have slept . |
| 28 | The extraordinary thing about Greene is that he wrote over decades and changed so fluently from a pre-war to a post-war writer . |
| 29 | Chapman had kept a close watch on Speirs ' feud with Bradford City , and moved in just at the right moment . |
| 30 | Grandparents who moved in only at the very end of their lives , just for a few last months , rarely left much of a mark unless earlier contact had been important . |