Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a further series of internal meetings taking several days , they eventually agreed to pay half the sum , provided another organisation would put up the other half . |
| 2 | The story of St Wulstan 's Hospital forms a fascinating footnote to the narrative of events at Powick , which illustrates that Worcester Health Authority was as much locally impelled to rationalize mental health services , as pushed to do so by the centre . |
| 3 | One drawback of this style of argument is that not only is the harm serious for the victim , but conviction for such an offence is serious for the defendant : a single class of offenders ( rapists , serious wounders ) would contain not only those with subjective fault but also those who merely failed to take proper care , all of whom would be convict.ed of a grave offence carrying a maximum of life imprisonment . |
| 4 | Occupational types , for example , whether crofters , fishermen or merchants , are together presumed to have more in common than they have to divide them . |
| 5 | The churches reflect the piety and religious sentiment of the citizens in an age which naturally sought to express civic feeling in religious form . |
| 6 | Staff , on the other hand , felt that they constantly tried to do this , both through formal mechanisms , like the initial meeting , nursery booklet , parents ' nights , and also informally , through chat . |
| 7 | Or perhaps , in the old days , people were even more scared of death than we are , so tried to appear friendly towards it , as a woman might try to appear friendly to a rapist in the hope — |
| 8 | But she had already lost her balance as she impossibly tried to juggle Equal Opportunities , shortage of staff and time , and the torrent of ‘ open access ’ job applications . |
| 9 | Huckerby , a worried-looking , balding man , had a responsible position which basically involved overseeing editorial expenditure and running the paper day to day , but was best known for fussing round the office collecting old coffee cups and switching off the lights last thing at night . |
| 10 | Blackberry 's flood of apparent nonsense only seemed to draw tighter the mesh of danger and bewilderment . |
| 11 | Short , fashionably cut brown hair only seemed to give added emphasis to her thin features , deepening the shadows beneath her eyes . |
| 12 | But she only seemed to uncover more and more misery and misfortune whichever way she turned . |
| 13 | I stuck to party policy , of course , but the problem only seemed to get worse . |
| 14 | In Mrs Brockett 's case Panorama only seemed to recognise half the issues . |
| 15 | Maggie kept catching her eye with an expression of knowing amusement , but at the same time she obviously hated having these men stomping through her every possession and destroying any remaining magic in her secret chamber . |
| 16 | they constantly threatened to become more than a handful in every sense , so one sad Saturday he sold the sows with their litters at Taunton market — and since then has dealt with pigs only on paper . |
| 17 | Also , Lister 's discovery of the importance of antisepsis made surgery , which up till that time had been a hazardous technique , a safe procedure , and with the development of anaesthesia , surgery suddenly began to enjoy great popularity as a panacea for many ills . |
| 18 | It was at this moment , as Franca recalled it afterwards , that the balance suddenly tilted in the other direction , and what had seemed sensible and inevitable suddenly began to seem trivial and irrelevant , and what had seemed impossible became not only possible but essential . |
| 19 | A recent and very interesting case is that of a fifty-three- year-old man in Italy who suddenly began to sleep less and less . |
| 20 | NBC spokeswoman Tori Beilinson said Maria suddenly began feeling unwell last week . |
| 21 | The company needed workers , and so began building small terraces of houses for its labourers to live in . |
| 22 | As the weeks went by , I naturally began to enjoy this new-found notoriety . |
| 23 | Gill naturally began probing top British Aerospace personnel who , facing redundancy and compulsory relocation away from the Home Counties to the North of England , were interested in the opportunities on offer . |
| 24 | Gandhi only began to undertake serious fasts — that is , fasts where there was a danger to his life , as opposed to brief fasts for purposes of spiritual discipline or penance — after he had established a reputation for sanctity and a large following based to some extent on that reputation . |
| 25 | West Venture was acquired in March 1988 but only began to make significant sales this year . |
| 26 | One argument says that mammals only began to grow larger when they no longer needed to lead furtive , skulking lives , hiding in crannies to avoid the fearsome dinosaurs . |
| 27 | From palaeomagnetic evidence , it is alleged that the African and European continents moved vast distances during the Devonian and only began to approach each other during Carboniferous times . |
| 28 | ‘ You say you only began to feel funny while you were looking at the eye ? ’ |
| 29 | I told them if we did n't get more light and heat up here soon I 'd tear a few more of them apart , but after that they only started acting all stupid , and anyway they 'll soon forget ; they always do . " |
| 30 | Consequently things only started to get funny around four songs in , just as the band began bringing the stops off cleanly and ending in the same places . |