Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a further series of internal meetings taking several days , they eventually agreed to pay half the sum , provided another organisation would put up the other half . |
| 2 | Occupational types , for example , whether crofters , fishermen or merchants , are together presumed to have more in common than they have to divide them . |
| 3 | Staff , on the other hand , felt that they constantly tried to do this , both through formal mechanisms , like the initial meeting , nursery booklet , parents ' nights , and also informally , through chat . |
| 4 | But she only seemed to uncover more and more misery and misfortune whichever way she turned . |
| 5 | In Mrs Brockett 's case Panorama only seemed to recognise half the issues . |
| 6 | Maggie kept catching her eye with an expression of knowing amusement , but at the same time she obviously hated having these men stomping through her every possession and destroying any remaining magic in her secret chamber . |
| 7 | they constantly threatened to become more than a handful in every sense , so one sad Saturday he sold the sows with their litters at Taunton market — and since then has dealt with pigs only on paper . |
| 8 | A recent and very interesting case is that of a fifty-three- year-old man in Italy who suddenly began to sleep less and less . |
| 9 | As the weeks went by , I naturally began to enjoy this new-found notoriety . |
| 10 | From palaeomagnetic evidence , it is alleged that the African and European continents moved vast distances during the Devonian and only began to approach each other during Carboniferous times . |
| 11 | I told them if we did n't get more light and heat up here soon I 'd tear a few more of them apart , but after that they only started acting all stupid , and anyway they 'll soon forget ; they always do . " |
| 12 | It says a great deal for the language faculty of the Polytechnic of Central London that it not only survived having this vociferous cuckoo of a course in its midst but is planning to repeat it . |
| 13 | Furthermore , although the chronicler was well informed , and has something to offer on events in Mercia and Northumbria , he seems to have known most , or perhaps merely wished to say most , about what happened in southern England and East Anglia . |
| 14 | His lips traced the curves his finger had explored , and then he delved sensuously deeper , his tongue finding hers and abruptly intensifying the embrace , as if the intimacy of their tongues together had driven any intentions of reserve and restraint from his mind … |
| 15 | The monarch remained the chief executive in the state : he alone continued to determine all matters of policy ( foreign and domestic ) ; he had the right to choose his own ministers ; he retained the right to veto legislation ; and he was left with the power to determine the summoning , proroguing and dissolution of Parliament . |
| 16 | The price of cobalt soared and the industry suddenly had to pour much time and money into redesigning the magnets in loudspeakers , using less expensive ceramic materials instead of cobalt . |
| 17 | I had the good fortune to have two older sisters around the house , who basically had to do all the nasty dirty work . |
| 18 | But Mr Stratton saw Mr Aldrich ; and so in an odd sort of way , even if we had no proof of Stratton being in Didcot , the pair of them quite unwittingly perhaps had given each other an utterly unshakeable alibi . |
| 19 | They only had to miss half a dozen meals and they started to complain . |
| 20 | Additionally , a very few people had failed to get what they wanted from one source , so had used some other source instead . |
| 21 | We looked , and though we never said so , we believed that we alone had seen these things , that they had never been seen before . |
| 22 | ‘ When your mother came to live here and asked me to advise her , ’ he said uneasily , ‘ I naturally wanted to know some background . |
| 23 | Published works of the 1950s , 1960s and 1970s all tended to follow this approach , and while there were occasional signs of shifts in direction , these were mere rustlings in the undergrowth compared with the revolution taking place elsewhere in British archaeology . |
| 24 | I only wanted to see this one and he said |
| 25 | She was aware of the mugs of cocoa , cooling on the table beside her , but she only wanted to prolong this wonderful moment , sitting here with David , her hand in his . |
| 26 | T'Home does n't run to one , and t'daughter only wanted to get all t'kids back to Sunderland . " |
| 27 | I only intended to do that first album , because it was a new label and I did n't want to sign to a label that had no track record . |
| 28 | He gained a reputation as the Buster Keaton of the cricket world , a man who rarely seemed to have any expression on his face and who was not one for the excited cavortings that greet the fall of a wicket ; yet behind the mask a good deal of thought was given to his bowling , and he was liked and respected by his fellow players . |
| 29 | Contrary to the hopes and fears of those who had taken sides on the issue of democracy , political practice rather seemed to suggest that liberal ( that is limited ) democratic government and a class — divided society could fit nicely together without disaster and the overthrow of that society by democratic excesses . |
| 30 | It was unshakable in its main bastion , Britain , and elsewhere the prospects of social revolution paradoxically seemed to depend more than ever on the prospect of the bourgeoisie , domestic or foreign , creating that triumphant capitalism which would make possible its own overthrow . |