Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the shepherd eventually limped back to civilisation and told his unlikely tale , the authorities located the treasure and imprisoned the shepherd for theft . |
| 2 | It is not at all clear , however , whether the addition of the marginal note in the one , and its incorporation in the other , was prompted by new , and supposedly better , information or rather arose simply through a temporary confusion between father and son ( occasioned , perhaps , by something like the confusing apposition of " Mevlana Shams al-Din Fenari-oglu " in the Turan entry corresponding to 840 ) which was then , possibly , perpetuated through inadvertence . |
| 3 | Over the next few days Maggie slowly got closer to Ana de Santis . |
| 4 | However , outwardly cool , calm and composed , and trying to use up as many minutes as possible , she slowly got out of her car and , just as slowly , moved to the stout front door of the imposing building . |
| 5 | They gamely fought back to 27-20 with a Rob Myler try 10 minutes from time . |
| 6 | Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life . |
| 7 | But , oh dear , in antithesis Freud , Jung , Fromm and the women 's movement slowly crept up on us . |
| 8 | The objective henceforward became not to be a loser by using the benefits of a bourgeois education to tight the cause of all those losers in the world who , like his father , had been smashed by the bourgeois system itself . |
| 9 | The two mills were thus run in tandem by Marling and Co from 1883 to 1920 , when they eventually sold out to P.C. Evans and Sons Ltd . |
| 10 | Hearts0 St Mirren0 NOBODY anticipated a classic at Tynecastle and Hearts , needing to pick up both points to stay within sight of Premier Division leaders Rangers , and the doomed St Mirren duly lived up to expectations . |
| 11 | By the time she eventually got up to her room , she was out on her feet , and , if she were honest , not entirely sober . |
| 12 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 13 | So I phoned Mrs I eventually got through to her then I had to phone the prison to tell daddy because he was going to go in and erm I mean I , and then I go back to work , Grant . |
| 14 | And in the camera , when police eventually got round to checking , were 17 pictures of the last hours of their lives . |
| 15 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 16 | We eventually got away from the station and camped two hours later near a marsh , where we shot some duck for dinner , and two lily-trotters for our collection . |
| 17 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 18 | Ironically when it eventually got close to Black Rock , no " rescue " could be made because of low water . |
| 19 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 20 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 21 | We eventually got back to our campsite at around 5.00pm . |
| 22 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 23 | Anyway , I eventually caught up with him in Irkutsk which is central Siberia . |
| 24 | De Chaboulon recalled : ‘ The looting delayed the enemy 's pursuit which eventually caught up with us at Quatre Bras and they fell upon our carriages . |
| 25 | Wordsworth , on the other hand , placed more value on Nature as a religious and moral agent ; he began those speculations about the meaning and direction of his own life which eventually built up into The Prelude . |
| 26 | In some places you can find dozens of enrolled trilobites together ; these are the remains of the animals themselves , not the moults , which presumably perished together after a fruitless attempt to protect themselves from a miniature catastrophe such as a sudden influx of sediment . |
| 27 | The wind rose in a rending sigh , filling the night with sound , and slowly sank again to quietness . |
| 28 | She felt such a clown , standing before them with that vulgar object between her open legs , but she slowly sank down towards the disgusting dildo and manipulated her thighs until the blunt tip was nudging at the portals of her reluctant orifice . |
| 29 | He seemed to loom over her and she instinctively moved back in her chair with a jerk . |
| 30 | At the other end of the scale , Plymouth Laira gained a small fleet of Class 37s which rarely ventured away from the West Country china clay empire , although a new trainload working was introduced in 1989 which would take them twice a week up to Irvine in South West Scotland . |