Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The longest came from his great rival , William Ewart Gladstone — that clocked in at a mind-numbing four hours and 45 minutes . |
| 2 | The indisposition of the 8F led to some speculation by passengers on the Cambrian Limited , last Sunday , that the Standard 4 No 75069 would fulfil the Red Rose roster in place of No 8233 . |
| 3 | For the less rarified among us they are the things you press yourself between before turning out the light . |
| 4 | There was a discrepancy somewhere and perhaps the less said about it the better . |
| 5 | ‘ The less said about it , the better . ’ |
| 6 | And the less said about big bangs the better . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps the less said about that , the better , Mr Brocklehurst , ’ said Mrs Reed , shaking her head . |
| 8 | One interpretation of the intermittent energy which Joseph Sturge put into the free produce movement in the 1840s is that it constituted an attempt by a Friend who had launched out into public and even political life to maintain links with more traditionally quietist brethren who none the less looked for greater perfection in the world . |
| 9 | That , and Karajan the survivor , the man stricken with illness who none the less appeared against all the odds to conduct a musically towering , spiritually searching account of Brahms 's First Symphony , as he did in London , to great and deep-felt acclaim , in the autumn of 1988 . |
| 10 | The first hint that things were not really changing for the better came in 1945 when , according to Damiani , two Palestinian Jews paid a visit to his father . |
| 11 | They are so versatile — ranging from the elegant to the honestly simple , from the highly spiced to the delicately flavoured . |
| 12 | The thunderous applause after Be My Downfall , a cover of Free 's A Little Bit Of Love and the much shouted for Move Away Jimmy Blue was well deserved . |
| 13 | It has to be remembered that both the much tinkered with constitution and the parliament date from Soviet times . |
| 14 | ‘ As I was saying , ’ Patrick Milligan continued , once his youngest was out of the house , ‘ if the best came to the best , and your sister married the old codger , we could be in clover . |
| 15 | That goal was a little rough on St Johnstone , who had chances during the second half , though the best came in the first when Harry Curran threaded a pass through to Vinny Arkins . |
| 16 | The best came from Zibello , a village near the po and not far from Fontanellato . |
| 17 | ‘ Bound to overlap you know , with ten parts each and the twiddly bit with the songs . ’ |
| 18 | When the Bingham Report recommended a statutory duty for auditors ‘ to report to the Bank any information or opinion which the auditor knows or should reasonably know to be relevant to a bank 's fulfilment of the criteria in Sch 3 of the 1987 [ Banking ] Act ’ ( ie the criteria for being licensed as a bank ) , auditors ' reactions varied from the totally relaxed to the slightly concerned , but no one positively opposed the change . |
| 19 | In the case of a female dealer she is the more lusted after . |
| 20 | Luke 's voice was deep and magnetic and Robyn felt the anguish twist inside as he gazed into her face , and the once dreamt of words were spoken . |
| 21 | The am-am went to Kirkby pair Stuart Johns ( 12 ) and Jim Warrilow ( 10 ) , with 44 points . |
| 22 | One was the detestation by the liberally oriented of religious paternalism , a mild form of anti-clericalism . |
| 23 | Luckily there was a manger in the corner of his box with a tying-up ring next to it so I tied him to some baler twine , in case the worse came to the worse , and put his water and his hay at nose level in front of him . |
| 24 | ‘ You do n't care that she 's not in love with you because you 're not the least bit in love with her , either ! ’ |
| 25 | But the landscape is not the least bit like home . |
| 26 | I 'm not the least bit like the fleet of models and would-be actresses the Press politely call your constant companions . |
| 27 | The biggest Nazi vote came from the rural districts , and the lowest came from urban areas , where the SPD , KPD and DNVP were still firmly based . |
| 28 | ‘ You certainly know how to charm a girl , ’ she bounced back at him , and caught his laughing expression full-on , and while her heart danced a merry jig she had to accept that , for the moment , she could forget all about the barely started upon list of questions she had lined up . |
| 29 | And when the sh when the relief came in the ship lay about a mile off the never came near the rock at all because it was just a mass of reefs you know and the ship lay about a mile off and then the launch came in with a crew of about half a dozen men and the officer the second mate usually in charge . |
| 30 | When he peered into his mirror he saw himself already a little stooped in the shoulders , a little heavy in the body , the full cheeks beginning to hang , their old ruddy colour grown muddy and pale , strands of grey in the short , forked beard and at the high temples , and above all , that permanent , aching double pleat between the long , thin brows , scored a little deeper every day . |