Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly Sheila struggled to her feet . |
| 2 | Discreetly Pamela put on her bifocals and craned her neck . |
| 3 | Little Stu stayed with the women most of the time , and Ross was in the pram , but Billy and Sandy went wild . |
| 4 | AND FROM THE RACISM THAT SADLY AFFLICTS US ALL AND LEADS WHITE PEOPLE TO ASSOCIATE INFERIORITY AND DARKNESS , KURTEN 'S RECONSTRUCTION MAKES MORE SENSE , SINCE NEANDERTHALS LIVED IN GLACIAL ENVIRONMENTS AND LIGHT SKIN MAY BE AN ADAPTATION TO LIFE IN MIDDLE TO HIGH LATITUDES . |
| 5 | Nervously Meredith gazed at the open water ahead and then back at Venice , the minarets and bell-towers , the tall palaces just a distant unfocused blur in the morning mist . |
| 6 | Excessive editing of videotape was not to be encouraged in 1961 and so Newman worked to the formula of having live action done in the electronic studio , and the Visual Effects , plus other control critical sequences , done on film — a small , but important development in British science fiction programme making . |
| 7 | This in its turn provoked similar claims from several of the Italian princes , so that " before long Munster swarmed with Excellencies " . |
| 8 | So Schaffer sat with a stack of paperback books from Hamilton 's corner rack , and occasionally tried to catch Hennessy to pump him for information . |
| 9 | ‘ You know , Piper , I was so shit scared during the bombardment that I lay on the floor of that trench and prayed . |
| 10 | ‘ I shall have to report this to my superiors , ’ he finally said , when only Peggy remained in the tent . |
| 11 | So Roger stayed with him . ’ |
| 12 | Yeah , so mum went into the ward and she said he 's awfully yellow , is that normal ? |
| 13 | The mid-century architect Robert Morris makes the case for them with fervour : ‘ the Geographer can travel from one Country to another , through various Climates , over Sea and Land … and yet be only retir 'd to his Closet ’ . |
| 14 | So Kant sought by ‘ limiting knowledge to make room for faith ’ , and to connect faith with moral awareness and action . |
| 15 | So Maria remained at home , or rather at whatever lodgings Noreen found in the town they were playing . |
| 16 | The deep rumbling of the explosions dying down to a hissing of falling dust , everything grew quiet , and the twenty or so survivors collapsed against a low wall to get their breath back . |
| 17 | Beyond the pine , and a little lower on the cliff , a dozen or so bushes grew from a wide fissure . |
| 18 | So Thorfinn gathered from Ferteth . |
| 19 | Josie said from the doorway , and so Lucy explained about her earlier interview and the ring binder that she 'd seen . |
| 20 | So Molly stood in the kitchen , the centre of the house , with its door opening on to the terrace , where now , for certain , no one stood watching her . |
| 21 | Whenever possible laser and radiotherapy were performed on an outpatient basis although many patients came from long distances so radiotherapy had to be given as an inpatient . |
| 22 | yeah , so Ivan said to me , he said er he said well I do I suppose you have noticed he said but whenever she comes down here he said the whole line stops I said I quite agree I said well let's be honest about it if he 's knocking out the meat he , it 's got ta stop cos he stops |
| 23 | yeah , they 'll be , and she 's always moaning driving Sue up the wall , why should I keep him blah , blah , blah , blah , doing nothing , we sit and look at each other and Sue said for Christ sake she said you 're twenty years old , not forty , she 'd been bad on and off again , throat , well she had the shoulder , throat er she thought she had , oh the diabetes was one were n't it , diabetes one , they thought she had , thought that she had glandular fever but she has n't and er , so Sue said to her well are you looking after yourself and she said yes I am , Sue said well I du n no she never seems to be , cos she 's never been well has she really ? |
| 24 | Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday and not sure about Friday evening and er she said then she 'll have trouble getting the money over that 's out of them , why the redundancy because been there over two year , so I presume redundancy or holidays or both so Sue said to her well if they were so good to you in the past , but that ai n't the point is it ? |
| 25 | Suddenly Hari thought of the man who had escaped from the prison , he was the same sort as Emily Grenfell , no doubt before he fell from grace they would have met and socialized . |
| 26 | So Freud wrote in The Ego and the Id , and the same point is found in other outlines of psychoanalysis written by Freud . |
| 27 | So Ken said to him I ca n't understand what a boy like you 's doing here Duane . |
| 28 | The dice players ignored him so Corbett lay on his cot bed and tried to marshall his thoughts . |
| 29 | Beatty turned it down as not being a big enough role , and so Polanski went for Robert Redford . |
| 30 | The possibility that we belong to such a so-called noumenal realm ( that is , a realm of things in themselves ) in our true being , also suggests dimly how it can be possible that ultimately we are free agents , who can cause ourselves to act according to the moral law , whatever the pressures upon us , in spite of the fact that at the level of appearance we are simply parts of the natural order of cause and effect , and as such merely animals impelled by our instinctive desires |