Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very often they moved on again after a short stay , for they found that reality was harsher than their dreams . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The SEC 's New York office is making informal inquiries into several instances when a share price moved up ahead of a favourable announcement about the restructuring of the company 's debt . |
| 4 | There was a plop as it landed in the water , then it thrashed around wildly for a few seconds before settling down . |
| 5 | They drove on silently for a few minutes and then Mrs Lomax suddenly spoke . |
| 6 | Lili came down again in a black jersey frock and fresh lipstick and carrying the scent of some strange perfume . |
| 7 | The questions rose to a clamour , but no-one stood in the way as Sergeant Bird smoothly drove off again with a regretful shake of his head . |
| 8 | NORWICH hero John Polston woke up today with a king-sized headache and feeling exhausted after an epic 24 hours . |
| 9 | ALTHOUGH only the Communist Party came out strongly against a possible reunification of Germany yesterday , the prospect will cause an upheaval in French international thinking particularly over France 's role as the motor of the European Community . |
| 10 | This remarkable two-part adventure came about purely as a stop-gap measure to forestall a looming crisis . |
| 11 | He turned up again in a small-town truck stop , clean-shaven and with an airman 's jacket showing fleece through rips in the leather . |
| 12 | He did a runner on her , turned up here with a split bone or two , which I fixed , and then he headed off again . ’ |
| 13 | The emergency services are investigating why firefighters turned up late to a mock nuclear accident.Confusion over phone lines is being blamed for a ten minute delay before the fire brigade responded . |
| 14 | TWO youngsters cuddled up yesterday for a special ‘ thank you ’ to the man who gave them life . |
| 15 | Silver 's light-grey fur showed up plainly against a low spray of gorse , but Hazel could not see Bigwig until he sat up and ran towards them . |
| 16 | ‘ Paul arrived up here as a typical Cockney . |
| 17 | After a few yards the greenery opened out again beside a small lake . |
| 18 | We wondered what a Bishop 's Palace would be like , I think William had expectations of maidservants and throne rooms , but it turned out more like a typical Kiwi residence . |
| 19 | The short day was darkening ; the back door swung in heavily under a Gothic porch over which a rose , now leafless , was trained . |
| 20 | St Peter walked along silently for a long distance . |
| 21 | Narrow french , or mock french , seams should be used , or a narrow plain seam with the seam allowances finished off together with a zig-zag stitch . |
| 22 | 6–8 nanny-thin , slightly stale slices of bloomer loaf 2–3 oz raisins , plumped up overnight in a few spoonfuls of brandy butter and whole nutmeg ( or ground allspice ) 4 large eggs and 1 pt half cream 2–3 tbsp demerara sugar or crushed coffee sugar crystals ( optional ) |
| 23 | A high forehead curved back gently into a rich tangle of dark , curled hair ; she had an aquiline nose , full , sensual lips and a proud chin . |
| 24 | He pushed past a group of waiting relatives … why people insisted on waving when the train was still so far away had always been a mystery to him … and glanced round sharply at a teenage girl who elbowed him accidentally , but painfully , in the back . |
| 25 | They got back together after a long break so he must have liked her as she was . |
| 26 | Children who made a successful adjustment and settled in happily with a foster family were devastated when they were subjected to another round of upheaval and insecurity . |
| 27 | The sky was a place of awakening , of vigour , as full of life as the million seeds in the earth Woolley hacked a long , scarlet gash in it with a burst of machine-gun fire and pulled up hard into a tight , half-rolling turn so that he could look back and down . |
| 28 | All these sights and sounds alone would have fascinated Joseph 's young mind , but the murmured talk of deities and devils beyond his imaginings coming from the grave-faced little mandarin pacing at his side established the walled city of palaces lastingly in his mind as a place of deep mystery and enchantment , and by the time Tran Van Hieu delivered him to the governor 's aide outside the Palace of Perfect Concord he was almost ready to believe he would see a live white tiger curled up contentedly with a blue dragon around the emperor 's feet . |
| 29 | Killion collapsed , screaming ; the music faltered , stopped , and started up again in a noisy polka . |
| 30 | But Downing Street hit back immediately with a stinging rebuke , plunging Anglo-French relations to a new low . |