Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the old system , it was possible , if a shortage of any one part occurred , to complete a large number of bodies up to the point at which this particular part was required , and even if the whole of the body shop floor eventually became taken up by partially built bodies , it was still possible to keep the body makers employed in splicing bottom sides and cantrails and fitting the pillars in position alongside the partially erected bodies . |
| 2 | With the retirement of Thomas Goldney the firm reverted for a time to Pountney and Co , and eventually became known simply as the Bristol Pottery until its cessation in the 1960s . |
| 3 | This difference is significant ( p <0.05 ) ; however , the two groups did not differ significantly in their ability to recognise speakers 1 and 3 , whom they overwhelmingly failed to identify as black . |
| 4 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
| 5 | She very rarely got told off and when she did it upset her . |
| 6 | Philip Mairet , the editor , who was sympathetic to my views , tried to persuade Eliot to contribute his , and he eventually agreed to do so . |
| 7 | They eventually agreed to walk down the driveway and pose for pictures . |
| 8 | It all eventually got straightened out , despite the Vadinamian distaste for the unusual , and suspicion of off-worlders . |
| 9 | However , the Stuarts eventually got traded in for solid Hanoverian stock , and the latest evidence suggests that the South learned fast . |
| 10 | Dot in the conservatory watched as Loopy Lil slowly tried to pick up the unsteady tray of china . |
| 11 | Unsuspecting , and being a decent , trusting sort of man , I foolishly agreed to tag along and help . |
| 12 | But that only became known later , following intense scientific detective work ; by the evening of 23 March the discovery of the millennium seemed assured . |
| 13 | The government of course are getting capital receipt now , but sale we only expected to bring in some seven hundred million , it was thought the budget made for three or four days against the to be measure but there are only much more important arguments in the financial consideration in my opinion . |
| 14 | Kirov not only got to travel freely within military establishments and top security complexes , he was known and respected by important public figures . |
| 15 | Americans suddenly got fed up with all these Russians who were n't Nureyevs . |
| 16 | So got to continue on there on behaviours recognize people that you see around about recognize to be aggressive , some as assertive some as passive . |
| 17 | The woman was wearing a red hat which Katharine impertinently asked to try on . |
| 18 | Someone literally got carried away towards the end of the game cos he fell over the front of his seat and banged his head . |
| 19 | The French tract , while not primarily concerned with the sea and the exercise of sea power , none the less tried to show not merely France 's equality but its superiority over England in matters maritime . |
| 20 | Kayley Desmond , 14 months , had suffered three respiratory attacks where she suddenly stopped breathing over a few hours , Nurse Maxine Motley told Nottingham Crown Court . |
| 21 | Four Ministers apparently tried to cover up the truth by hiding under a cloak of secrecy . |
| 22 | I only stopped working frenziedly hour after hour after I met the English boy I 'd just thrown water over moments before . |
| 23 | All of these factors taken together helped to bring about a national sense of economic and political malaise . |
| 24 | In truth , he merely tried to break down social barriers and taboos that surrounded sex in order to remove what he saw as a cause for psychological problems of the time . |
| 25 | No one much seemed to think so . |
| 26 | Kelly had another good match , Strachan was superb , Wallace was my Man of the Match , Deane caused them problems all night , McAllister Speed and batty were good the first half , but Speed especially seemed to drop out of the game in the second half . |
| 27 | It was a shocking thing , no doubt , but compared with her future , which suddenly seemed to hold out enticing prospects of a new and exciting life , it had retreated into the background . |
| 28 | Well you would n't have fancied that as a goalkeeper would you Pearce suddenly came flying in on Ward . |
| 29 | It is an indication of how low Kylie 's emotional defences were during this crisis that — just for once — the intensely personal details of her life suddenly came gushing out , as if to exorcise some spirit that was within her . |
| 30 | 2 Of itself , however , the reality of group activity was probably of less significance than was the fact that the established theories of British politics suddenly came to appear as " wrong " , so prompting the search for new ways to make sense of things . |