Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Len eventually limped home using a makeshift mast of a saucepan and blanket . |
| 2 | for the British , this meant state-owned airlines flying state-developed aircraft operating on agreed internationally controlled routes and frequencies . |
| 3 | Further east , Bulgaria eventually became firmly attached to the Byzantine church , but in the 860s Louis the German , king of the East Franks , even tried to become involved in the Bulgarian conversion . |
| 4 | I gave him a simple answer , the one that eventually became officially accepted . |
| 5 | Comfortable and friendly , it is a broader , homelier version of the ‘ Queen Anne ’ style , which had been conceived over thirty years earlier by the great Richard Norman Shaw , and which eventually became so settled and familiar in suburban streets throughout England . |
| 6 | Karen instinctively got up to try and help , which made the punt wobble even more wildly . |
| 7 | Although Home Rule for Scotland in a federated Britain was part of that policy , it rarely got seriously discussed . |
| 8 | Her trunk movements slowly became more controlled , so that Rose could begin to balance . |
| 9 | She must have been watching because she smiled , or rather tried not to smile too obviously — she tried to conceal her pleasure in witnessing the beginning of her triumph by pressing her lips together , but the smile came out anyway . |
| 10 | Staring at him worriedly , she slowly sank down to sit on the edge of the bed . |
| 11 | I remember feeling a good deal embarrassed , which he imperturbably pretended not to notice , thereby perhaps further teaching me a lesson in Eliot-etiquette , though he was the last person deliberately to make anyone feel uneasy . |
| 12 | He was 17 years old when he suddenly became generally exhausted and tired of studying . |
| 13 | Conditions for voting in local and national elections only became fully assimilated following the Representation of the People Act 1969 . |
| 14 | Status . — An introduced resident which apparently became firmly established about 1841 . |
| 15 | Unable to drive the Syrians out of Lebanon , he merely succeeded in extended the civil war into Christian East Beirut . |
| 16 | In a further six cases ( one in Newham , five in Ipswich ) the development officer said she would have liked to provide a little extra help but a support worker was rejected by the client or his informal carer ; and since they did not require the kind of direct help which the development officer could provide , she merely visited occasionally to check whether or not the situation was breaking down . |
| 17 | till we got to near the den and do that and we spent er a year and a half there and all the time we were watching this house being built , because I was working at the Corporation and the number of people of the Corporation from the tea boy cadet down came up to see this , this and that , was nobody 's business , mm , without , we enjoyed it , it was quite funny really it is |
| 18 | Ashenden suddenly seemed more relaxed : ‘ I had a tip . |
| 19 | Oh yes cos you only came out did n't you ? |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , no , I was only teasing , and I really only came in to tell you that I 'm leaving tomorrow , and to thank you for being so kind , and — well , to say goodbye . |
| 21 | I only came down to cheat ! |
| 22 | It was now that the assurances of 1918 that the pact would be for one election only came home to roost ; wanting to be ready in plenty of time , many local parties were by 1921 selecting candidates who would oppose sitting Coalition Liberals . |
| 23 | He had quite rightly decided that he could do no good by playing with the Huns at 20,000 feet , so came down to see that none of them got me . ’ |
| 24 | Another potentially lethal hazard has been identified when baby-walkers are used ( Gray , 1987 ) ; it is easy for the child to reach out and pull on a kettle flex or iron flex which perhaps seemed safely tucked away and despite the apparent pleasure derived from baby-walkers , there is enough evidence of related accidents to recommend that they should not be used . |
| 25 | I only drove over to do the shopping and to pick Christine up from School . |
| 26 | She only learnt how to put on a bandage last month . ’ |
| 27 | He said nothing , merely walked away leaving them to push it open and then shut it after them , and on Philippa explaining to his departing back that she wanted to look for her earring and take back the vases and one or two things ‘ out of his way ’ , he said as ungraciously as he could ‘ I suppose so ’ . |
| 28 | These discoveries are relatively recent for a particular reason : medical scientists only started seriously investigating the benefits of high-fibre little more than a decade ago . |
| 29 | Well , crazy , I suppose I 'm crazy , I 've always thought runners were crazy , I 've always , you know , said friends and colleagues that used to run were mad , it only started off to get fit for skiing , and well , I hit , you know , I 've got the bug , and er well it 's going to be my first marathon and it 's definitely going to be my last marathon . |
| 30 | He suddenly decided not to go home to the cottage he shared with his widowed mother . |