Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He also bought a teaspoonful of tea from one of the artillery women for ten pounds , to be paid after the siege was over or , in case of death , by his executors to certain of her relations ; to lend substance to this rather nebulous arrangement which at first only seemed to excite the suspicion of the woman selling the tea , Fleury had drawn up an elaborate letter which began impressively : " To Whomsoever May Find This Missive , I , George Fleury , Being Then Deceased , " and which seemed to Fleury to give a certain legal solemnity to the transaction . |
| 32 | She tried to make a movement of resistance , but it only seemed to aid the passage of his touch . |
| 33 | This raucous noise only seemed to emphasize the ominous silence of the island and reminded me of a story I had heard from a traveller who claimed to have sailed the Western Ocean and come across islands inhabited by ghosts of dead sailors . |
| 34 | He suddenly risked losing the crowning glory of a lifetime 's secret endeavour to an unknown malarial " fly-catcher " as the humble naturalist-explorers were known . |
| 35 | Meanwhile I much enjoyed chairing the South African debate , since tempers flared throughout , including mine , which is always interesting . |
| 36 | Maha tried to join them but was cast out and good-humouredly began to push the loaded craft into the water . |
| 37 | It suddenly began to close the distance between them and Chrissie felt her heart beat increasing to an almost violent rate . |
| 38 | They only served to emphasise the power and toughness which was the man beneath the civilised veneer , and Fran shivered , wishing she had never started this by letting her emotions come to the surface . |
| 39 | When he did wake , Moran reached his hand across to the coarse shirt over the shoulder and gently began to knead the muscles . |
| 40 | He returned carrying some tepid water and cleaning material , and gently began wiping the sore cut . |
| 41 | For our purpose it is important to note that it merely threatened to dent the Treasury ascendancy over economic policy-making . |
| 42 | In better days , however , it merely served to guarantee the privacy of the sovereigns and as a diversion for the Prince Imperial who enjoyed running up and down it when he came to play with his parents . |
| 43 | The second was the decision of the American Supreme Court that they should divest themselves of monopoly control of the cinema chains which , as Heston said , was in hindsight a death blow which merely served to hasten the financial decline of each and every studio . |
| 44 | ( They have also recognized the political virtues of pluralistic multi-party democracy , which pluralism appeared to celebrate while Marxists previously derided it as ‘ bourgeois democracy ’ which merely served to mystify the reality of class oppression . ) |
| 45 | The Labour Party warned against taking part in any such movement which obviously threatened to disturb the balance maintained at Party Conference by the union block vote . |
| 46 | It was not until the 1880s that a number of new factors operating together began to change the prospect for the better . |
| 47 | On the T tonight it says there was a man started who started only started to do the pools , Raymond er , six months ago |
| 48 | I only started to make the links when the dampness started to affect my mental health . |
| 49 | As he repositioned the pins , she suddenly decided to take the opportunity to mention Constance and her plans for her . |
| 50 | It scared and disgusted her the way every male she met suddenly started ogling the blancmange under her blouse . |
| 51 | It suddenly started to make the long-drawn-out screaming noise of bits of metal in distress . |
| 52 | My thanks to all of the Area Council Members who all worked to make the event the success that it was , and to Ciaran Ryan , who took time out from a series of meetings to make the presentations . |
| 53 | We literally started building the cars in the corner of the workshop . ’ |
| 54 | I only managed to see the second programme when still perhaps a little punch-drunk from over-exposure to Bournonville at the Copenhagen festival , but I relished the four examples of choreography by Mark Morris and Lar Lubovitch , particularly when they showed off Baryshnikov . |
| 55 | The House of Lords held that in the context ‘ transferring ’ obviously meant assigning the beneficial interest and not the technical process of having a transfer registered . |
| 56 | He obviously meant to have the land that was being auctioned , and when he set his sights on something Luther Reynolds usually got his way . |
| 57 | He obviously meant to milk the situation for all he was worth … |
| 58 | A film which apparently did touch the spirit was King Kong , though we do not know whether Jack found it quite as exciting as Warnie did : ‘ There were astounding representations of the various prehistoric monsters , ’ Warnie confided breathlessly to his diary . |
| 59 | I was convinced he was about to do the same to me , when he suddenly appeared to notice the tent for the first time , shied away and crashed off into the trees . |
| 60 | Claudine did n't seem to know that this was a cruel dig at Jenna ; she only appeared to note the word ‘ beautiful ’ , and with that her interest faded , her eyes going back to Alain . |