Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tones can be easily built up and blended , rubbed hard with a plastic rubber or gently stroked onto a grained paper to produce sfumato effects . |
| 2 | I 'm not suggesting we all become missionaries , but if every one of us did just one charitable thing this week — visited someone old or sick , sent a food parcel to Africa , gave away a toy to a hospital ward or even took in a stray animal — then Christmas really would mean something . |
| 3 | They left the marketplace for a maze of streets and eventually came to a large stone two-storeyed house with a timbered roof , its exquisite carved eaves jutting out over a small courtyard beneath . |
| 4 | We drove for miles through dense jungle and eventually came to a big pool which was maybe 150 metres square and 30 metres deep . |
| 5 | He followed the widest of the paths northwards and eventually came to a deserted airfield . |
| 6 | He zoomed to save height , heard the cackle of machine-guns , skidded round in a savage , 180-degree turn , and instinctively ducked as a bright blue Pflaz hurtled over his head . |
| 7 | I set her down on her usual perch and slowly walked in a straight line to the far perch , some ninety feet away . |
| 8 | Wavebreaker was registered in the Channel Islands , and thus sailed under a defaced British red ensign with the Bahamian flag flying as a courtesy ensign from the main spreaders , but I always greeted arriving charter guests with their own country 's flag — though such a gesture was considered bad flag etiquette by nautical purists , it was good for our final tip — and so Thessy now hoisted the Stars and Stripes to the mainmast 's spreaders and a smaller Stars and Bars just beneath . |
| 9 | The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train began to slow down and soon came to a smooth stop . |
| 10 | It had taken Christina a long time to grow accustomed to the nocturnal sounds of the tropics , but she loved them now , and finally fell into a deep sleep , lulled by the incessant chirping of crickets , wind rustling the huge traveller 's palm outside the bedroom window , and the Caribbean sea breaking gently on the shore . |
| 11 | She dozed and woke , dozed and woke and finally fell into a light sleep , only stirring when she heard a voice addressing her from what seemed like a million miles away . |
| 12 | Patients developing such features ( n=6 ) were excluded from the study and gradually weaned onto a normal unrestricted diet . |
| 13 | Olsen has therefore concentrated on four periods when the paintings connect most directly with historic events : from 1797 to 1814 when Napoleon 's Empire imposed a kind of unity on the country ; from the restoration of the monarchy until mid century when historic Romanticism came into conflict with Realism and gradually waned as a moving force in Italian art ; the triumph of Realism in parallel with the rapid progress towards unification from 1849 to 1870 ; and the final period from 1870 until the end of the century when Realism evolved under wider European influences into Symbolism and Divisionism . |
| 14 | I know we have all heard of cases where someone has smoked sixty cigarettes a day and still lived to a ripe old age — but is it really worth taking the chance ? |
| 15 | The stranger let go and quickly thumbed through a small black book he had taken from his belt . |
| 16 | She left early for her morning swim at Buckingham Palace and later went on a 35-minute errand . |
| 17 | I do wonder if the King 's mad gallop through a storm-blown night finally unhinged his mind and so he caused the King 's death and later died of a broken heart ? |
| 18 | At this mine two years ago a man was buried and later died after a massive roof fall in an extended cut section . |
| 19 | , Robert ( c. 1591–1652 ) , naval officer , was born c .1591 in Landulph , Cornwall , and probably belonged to a junior seafaring branch of a landed family settled in Devon . |
| 20 | Eva did her best to " spark everybody up " and probably trod on a few more toes in the process . |
| 21 | Monday dawned to a nameless figure answering questions for a non-department whose head had been defeated in the election and now reigned in a spiritual fashion from the Lords . |
| 22 | Next morning they attended the Requiem Mass for their dead colleague who had been dressed by the monks for burial and now lay in a new pine coffin in front of the sanctuary steps of the abbey church . |
| 23 | During his stay Modigliani strolled in the garden and often trudged up a winding road , overlooking the sea and shaded by palms and eucalyptus trees , to the village café bar for a drink . |
| 24 | Formed in ice-cut cirques or shallow , steep-sided valleys , the Signy Island lakes are moraine-dammed and often rimmed by a rubble-covered shelf about 1 m below the surface ; the shelves are swept clear of sediment by wind-induced turbulence , and fall away to a narrow , sediment-filled trough . |
| 25 | The new chairman upset visiting speakers by introducing them incorrectly ; he ‘ picked his nose and wore jumpers with holes and even wrote to a local newspaper saying that new members should be on s ; weeks probation , and if they missed a meeting they should be expelled ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Betrothed ? ’ she managed , and immediately fell into a helpless fit of coughing which sent another stab of pain through her stomach . |
| 27 | She turned round , ready to scuttle back to the house , and immediately cannoned into a hard , warm body . |
| 28 | He leaned forward as if he meant to kiss her and then said in a low voice , ‘ I 'm going to give you the name of a first-rate lawyer . ’ |
| 29 | Eleanor glanced from side to side and then said in a low voice , ‘ It 's all right … what I told you about . ’ |
| 30 | On 19 March that year Crane told Winters that ‘ Williams probably means less to me than to you ’ , and then proceeded to a hesitant account of how he felt about this one of their older contemporaries : |