Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1991 results of serum tests and ultrasonography before 28 weeks ' gestation together made up 38% of the indications leading to a prenatal karyotypic confirmation of fetal trisomy 21 . |
| 2 | ‘ We only found out Peter was n't coming at the last minute . |
| 3 | The information only came out bit by bit since she 's still not easy in her mind about talking to us . |
| 4 | The driver gunned the motor but that only threw off sprays of fine snow , and the motor howled until I thought it would burst . |
| 5 | He told the court that after Swindon beat Bolton Wanderers in November 1989 he personally handed out £5,000 to the players and back-up staff . |
| 6 | So long as people continued to live in their old houses , surrounded by their old friends and neighbours , and had not broken with a routine of life which perhaps dated back generations , then the re-moulding of mentalities was going to be a frustratingly slow process , particularly for an engineer of human souls who was no longer young . |
| 7 | LG himself apparently drummed up support for his daughter by suggesting he would help her main rival , Ellis W. Roberts , a local barrister , find a seat elsewhere . |
| 8 | Violet and Eddie then went back to their respective boarding schools , paid for by Granny Macleod , which only stepped up Perdita 's paranoia and jealousy . |
| 9 | And the reindeer fair flew down Artisan View |
| 10 | After planting a flag on the summit and taking photographs in bright sunshine , Ms Stephens — who only took up mountaineering four years ago — lost no time in getting off the peak as the weather closed in . |
| 11 | Colin Who , only took up fotbal this seeson has licked nothin in yuthanasium ( 110$ purr mach ) but sadlee could not adap to this hi standard of footee . |
| 12 | On his head was the horned-moon helm of Saphery and he swiftly took up position between the queen and the Keeper of Secrets . |
| 13 | I hope people at the back can hear , erm , we obviously took up action on the resolution passed last year , in two or three different ways . |
| 14 | I more or less gave up cottaging for a while . |
| 15 | In its own extremely pared down way . |
| 16 | No one was able to give us at that time the valuable advice which I only picked up years later , namely that the great danger in cholera was dehydration , necessitating that the sufferer be given frequent drinks of cold water previously boiled . |
| 17 | The metro turned into the Lakes Estate and eventually drove down Melfoot Avenue where it reached a dead end . |
| 18 | But does it exist anywhere outside coiled up rolls of decaying celluloid of pre-war films ? |
| 19 | His early work about the alleys of Gamalliyya was fundamentally on the side of the revolution-the one that failed to dislodge the British in 1919 , and that finally threw out Farouk and brought Neguib and later Nasser to rule Egypt . |
| 20 | When Lilly finally handed over reports from the June symposium to the Committee on Safety of Medicines on 7 October it also proposed that the data sheets of information to doctors be changed to recommend ‘ half doses to the elderly ’ , according to the DHSS press office , or ‘ reduction of dosage to over 75s ’ according to the health minister . |
| 21 | For a moment Defries thought that Ace was going to kick her , but she just shook off Defries 's restraining hand . |
| 22 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 23 | When negotiations between employers and unions finally broke down strike action was taken with different groups of workers coming out in different parts of the country . |
| 24 | ‘ I only just took out earthquake insurance . ’ |
| 25 | In 1966 , when the Visual Effects Department finally took on Doctor Who , they too rebuilt the Daleks , enlarging the midriff sections to make them wider and taller after operators had complained of chaffed and scraped shoulders . |
| 26 | It was at the beginning of May , some weeks after he first left , that the Zoo finally gave up hope of capturing the escaped golden eagle . |
| 27 | I just put down Ex-Soldier and never did change it , even when he came in a couple of minutes later with his canvas bag over his shoulder . |
| 28 | I just carried on training and waited for the team to return from America and the post-Olympic meeting at Crystal Palace . |
| 29 | But it scarcely lasted out St Luke , was awfully little , and today it is dark and cold . |
| 30 | The last time these clubs met was at Wembley in the 1983 FA Cup final , a game that needed two bites for United before they finally ran out winners . |