Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He liked what he saw of the school and got on well with the Chairman of the Governors , a fellow classicist .
3 I got on well with the teachers there before I went to Bridge Road .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 And I enjoyed it , it was quite good , I got on well with the staff .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 The broad gauge lived on only in the Paddington to Penzance expresses , corresponding goods trains and services on feeder lines .
11 Mrs Roberts , indeed , who felt completely disoriented , clung on absurdly to the reality of Martin Parr .
12 The triumph of Atlanticism , however , became clear only towards the end of the 1940s , driven by necessity and the absence of more appealing alternatives .
13 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 . ’
14 Of all the cities in the north , Milan was the one that expanded most rapidly in the period up to 1100 .
15 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 .
16 The guard did as he was told , then stood back , watching as Tolonen limped slowly across to the corpse .
17 That succeeded only partially in the setting , but the costumes were attractive .
18 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 .
19 Darren , 21 , said : ‘ The smoke was very dense , so I got down low on the floor and pushed the kitchen door open .
20 They clung so tenaciously to the idea that Rose felt she could n't stand in their way .
21 He found the predatory birds oriented less accurately to the alarm calls , as Marler would have predicted .
22 The assumptions made so far about the input-output relations of the economy have been simplistic in the extreme .
23 Ralph Bryant read out the hundred and seventh psalm the following Sunday at the morning service in St Saviour 's , and the congregation listened with rapt attention to those words which applied so directly to the men and boys who were to sail in the Russell that day :
24 The big truck shuddered to a halt , spraying gravel from under its locked wheels , as Rocky tramped down hard on the brakes .
25 When we saw Helen Stoner 's light , Holmes and I got in quietly through the window .
26 Er other thing , and they lived down there opposite the garage , that was the electricity board house then .
27 He also sent us out to a dhow in the harbour to fish ; we had never before been on a vessel that rode so close to the water .
28 She struggled from Sophia 's embrace and jumped down among the windfall apples , rolled one over with her paw , then turned and stalked indifferently away among the Michaelmas daisies .
29 Ten minutes later they all met together again on the bank .
30 We taxied in close to the runway and were all pushed down the exit ladder to make a sprint for the terminal building ; no automatic concertinaed walkways here .
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