Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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31 | Nilsson , firmly entrenched in her seventies , leaves her native Sweden only rarely nowadays and she never much cared for recording studios . |
32 | Shadshit 's voice suddenly rose to rehearsal pitch and he walked out of the toilet and into the dressing room . |
33 | A series of bad falls , a year and a half on the sidelines , and a promising career suddenly headed for oblivion . |
34 | A hot food trader in the market square , who only moved to North Ormesby two days ago , said : ‘ People told me not to move here . |
35 | In order to overcome the problems of a mechanism becoming inadvertently disassembled by component changes , the development of an automated associative procedure was considered . |
36 | We have become so habituated to market relations that it can seem merely banal to observe that types of work which make a loss will , within market production , be reduced or discontinued , while types which make a profit will be expanded . |
37 | The bear apparently fled in terror , yelling and howling , but contemporary accounts tell a different story , where the bear in fact knocked Lambert down and he was so fat he could not get up ! |
38 | With hindsight , of course , it is now possible to question the glamorizing of drug-taking in such films as Easy Rider , Psych-Out and The Trip and others ; the in-built health warnings were seldom noticed and there was a certain drugs bandwagon rolling , anyway , largely created in the pop industry where drug usage was not only referred to , even poetically eulogized in song , but physically demonstrated by some of its more tragic exponents like Brian Jones , Jimi Hendrix and Janice Joplin , to name but three in a long line of fallen idols and heroes . |
39 | It is a formless landscape , usually thickly blanketed with smoke . |
40 | One line shows what has happened to personal wealth divided by personal income : if wealth merely rose in line with incomes ( which would be represented by a flat wealth line on the graph ) , the theory would suggest that it would not have any independent influence on savings . |
41 | In the latter case it remains to be determined whether any of the minor polypeptides detected in our assay are related to other CRE-binding activities ( ECRE-1 , ECRE-3 and ECRE-4 ) that have previously been shown to be down regulated during differentiation of F9 cells ( 48 ) . |
42 | The room suddenly hummed with tension . |
43 | 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 . |
44 | ‘ They have a leprechaun hunt ! ’ she suddenly exclaimed in delight . |
45 | Among them was a young officer who was riding a mule ( which stubbornly stopped from time to time ) and roaring with laughter . |
46 | ‘ The helicopter I 'd been watching suddenly veered to port and its rotor blades did n't look the same . |
47 | He suddenly exploded into anger , jaw thrust out pugnaciously , dark eyes gleaming . |
48 | Vologsky suddenly exploded into action . |
49 | One winter night , as the mutt twitched away in front of the fire , his mind somewhere between Basingstoke and the twilight zone , a 100-watt light bulb in the standard lamp above his head suddenly exploded without warning ! |
50 | He suddenly muttered in exasperation and took her arm , making short work of the steps . |
51 | He only came to life when she began unbuttoning his trousers , for as she touched his fly buttons , so he grabbed at his belt . |
52 | ( The General Next to God , Collins ) Many of his far-reaching proposals only came to fruition during the social reforms after the Second World War . |
53 | Part of the scandal only came to light when an eagle-eyed bank clerk spotted changes made to the bank destination information on an authorised cheque from Craven Grain . |
54 | The crimes only came to light in 1990 when one of Oldfield 's victims , then an adult , was himself charged with indecency to children . |
55 | This new evidence was held by the defence and only came to light during the trial . |
56 | Parts of the contents of the manual only came to light as a result of criminal trials following an incident at Orgreave during the strike , at which some of the techniques were implemented for the first time . |
57 | The spraying of the pesticide , Galecron , took place in 1976 , but only came to light during a recent Swiss TV programme . |
58 | ( Details only came to light in 1972 , when London Transport received a compulsory purchase order , in connection with a further rebuilding of the bridge . ) |
59 | The offences only came to light because of an attempt to inflate profits at Alexander Howden , which was discovered by the American company Alexander and Alexander after it bought the company . |
60 | It only came to light today . ’ |