Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were also trying too hard , Maria realised quite soon , and she thought Luke was equally aware of it . |
| 2 | Before Shildon got very far with his answer the doorbell rang again . |
| 3 | Mrs Marcos agreed long ago to fly her husband 's body direct to Laoag , but she is now hinting at defiance . |
| 4 | He went on , ‘ Matt lived here alone for years before I came on the scene . |
| 5 | It hurt her to think that Fernando cared deeply enough for another woman to do it . |
| 6 | Five days of sightseeing in and around Moscow passed quickly enough . |
| 7 | So much so that Jan got quite giggly and started swapping bargain stories with him , and I was left with Darren . |
| 8 | In the practical application of his theory Acton became much more pragmatic . |
| 9 | Luce asked as casually as possible . |
| 10 | Patrick asked more lightly than he felt . |
| 11 | Although he partially guessed that Joe Hyde would not be in the shop , Patrick stopped long enough to check the window . |
| 12 | To Branson 's irritation , McLaren prevaricated as long as possible , affecting the disinterest of an ingénue being courted by a philanderer . |
| 13 | Well taking our rivers , first of all , have the rivers of Sussex changed very much in recent years , and when I say recent years I mean over the last few centuries ? |
| 14 | Poor Roger crashed rather badly in his A levels . |
| 15 | The Lynx rose high enough to clear the grey walls , swung eastward and accelerated to a speed of 120 knots . |
| 16 | Throughout this period , the News-on-Sunday changed as both internal and external pressure challenged its very survival . |
| 17 | I found it helpful that Mrs McLaren behaved as naturally ( or perhaps as unnaturally ) as her companion had done . |
| 18 | At home Perdita behaved more atrociously than ever before , storming round the house , refusing to get a job and screaming at Violet and Eddie when they returned bronzed from a month in LA with Hamish and Wendy . |
| 19 | Hardly able to see a hand in front of her , but refusing to be daunted , Luce moved as fast as she dared down an alley-way little more than a metre wide . |
| 20 | Shrewsbury rallied briefly just before half time . |
| 21 | ( Yet if he did so , was not Edmund Mortimer let loose again from his prison ? ) |
| 22 | Isabella entered almost immediately into her husband 's publishing business , and within a year was writing on domestic matters for the EDM and had begun the ‘ four years ’ incessant labour' which she claimed Beeton 's Book of Household Management cost her . |
| 23 | ‘ Or crowded , ’ Fernando bemoaned as nevertheless he gathered her into his arms . |
| 24 | Lachlan was a right wild fighter , and Hector fought well too , in a quiet but effective way , all credit to the lad . |
| 25 | The interest in Britain 's retention of bases and the deployment of troops , ships and aircraft in the Persian Gulf , at Aden and Singapore , and in the Indian Ocean deepened as the United States became ever more deeply and uncomfortably involved in war in South-East Asia from the mid-1960s . |
| 26 | It may be that Borg realised quite soon that family life was not going to carry him through the great silence left behind by his renunciation of that terrible drug , competitiveness . |
| 27 | Krupskaia admitted more truthfully that at least three-quarters of their inmates were the result of contemporary conditions , not of past sufferings . |
| 28 | The dispute which led the Conseil d'Etat Luxembourgeois to seek a legal opinion from the ECJ arose quite simply from the withdrawal of Mr Ramrath 's authorisation on the grounds that he no longer satisfied Luxembourg law ( ie the requirement that he have a professional establishment in Luxembourg and that he fulfil conditions of professional independence ) . |
| 29 | Mrs Blakey asked as casually as she could , pushing a packet of wafer biscuits towards Kate . |
| 30 | Yet it was a simple matter of fact that the United States consulted more regularly with Britain than with any third state . |