Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Canadians arrived little more than 36 hours before their first tie and even in a bounce game against recruits at the army camp where they trained yesterday , they found it very taxing . |
| 2 | Still , though the English and the Germans sent hardly more than 10 per cent of their net demographic increase abroad , in absolute numbers this was a very large contingent . |
| 3 | The TV afternoons and the hours went so slow until he came back and turned the lights on . |
| 4 | In a way , he was glad when the doorbell rang commandingly just as he had got the eggs in the pan . |
| 5 | The bombs stopped as suddenly as they started but the hollow screams of anti-aircraft shells continued without pause . |
| 6 | The storm intruded once more as Pearce and Duvall exited . |
| 7 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 8 | The play got as far as Wimbledon and then seemed to die . |
| 9 | In fact , the Conducator went so far as to command the peasants to ‘ maintain the customs and dress of our great-great fore-bears , so that they shall always be in our memory . |
| 10 | The crisis of confidence in the future went far deeper than the economic agonies of a restricted prosperity in society 's upper ranks . |
| 11 | It transpired that the snow went as quickly as it had come , the road was opened and supplies began getting through regularly again . |
| 12 | Results showed that the President obtained slightly less than 82 per cent of the vote ( in 1985 he claimed to have received 100 per cent — p. 33963 ) , with his strongest constituency in rural areas . |
| 13 | On Monday the figure rose once more when Frenchman Michel Bou passed away surrounded by the hi-tech machinery of Glasgow Southern General hospital 's neurological unit . |
| 14 | The fence stretched as far as she could see and , above it , waved the brown tops of trees . |
| 15 | The car slowed only slightly as Julie drove through a deserted Berkeley square . |
| 16 | I was buried alive , the pummelling stopped as suddenly as it had started , I heaved myself up and the earth and muck fell off me . |
| 17 | After the unveiling ceremony a special train hauled by No 2 The Countess went as far as Castle Caereinion before returning to Raven Square . |
| 18 | But was it for this that the trumpets blew so confidently when the TECs appeared , less than two years ago ? |
| 19 | At one time , the Club went as far as refusing to allow juveniles a reduced entrance price for the London Road terrace but allowed them half price for other areas . |
| 20 | The following year the Scots penetrated as far as Swaledale and Richmondshire , burning villages and seizing or killing resisters : on this occasion Holme Cultram abbey lost livestock valued at £500 . |
| 21 | The bows of the boat rocked as gently as a baby 's cradle . |
| 22 | The Chinese democracy movement also demolished , though too briefly , the barrier of orientalising misperception which for so much of the European Left as well as for the ruling establishments has consigned China into the category of the separate and different . |
| 23 | But in 1834 , Weeks sold the contents of his museum and the Swan disappeared once again until it emerged at the Paris Exhibition 33 years later . |
| 24 | The mood spread as far as non-separatist feminist campaigns around disciplines like psychology . |
| 25 | Without using any money , some of the escapees got as far as North Wales , Yorkshire , and Scotland . |
| 26 | And the vehicle got as far as Hucknall Marketplace , er and that was it . |
| 27 | The proposal got as far as a White Paper which suggested a two-tier system — life peers with voting rights and other members who could take part in debate but not vote . |
| 28 | In 1383 , the proposal got as far as a draft . |
| 29 | The committee met as often as necessary ( at least monthly ) up to the start of industrial action , but at critical stages more regularly , and against a background of considerable informal consultation . |
| 30 | ‘ The measure as revised by the committee tried as hard as possible to accommodate the views of those who object to women priests . |