Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What groups , yeah groups for particular things on , on the , you know like campaigns or prisoners there were special groups dealing only with this those , they met on there own , not there were n't any |
| 2 | well it still lived on there all the time |
| 3 | Well , they agreed on that much anyway . |
| 4 | If , later on , he made rather too much of his lucky escape from one of Hitler 's flying bombs , describing the eerie cutting out of the engine noise seconds before it dropped , the blinding flash , the tall plume of smoke as it came to its final resting place in what was known as Bomb Alley — the route from bases in the Pas de Calais , via Kent to the capital — it was , perhaps , understandable . |
| 5 | Holly had talked with the old man and realized only later that when he spoke all those who were within earshot had listened and tried to learn about him from his words . |
| 6 | Well they got down alright this morning . |
| 7 | ‘ Binge ’ diary Week 1 Decided to give up vomiting ; binged three times 2–3 Noticed that when stressed by children she turned to food and binged 4–5 Binged only once each week 6–7 Returned home and observed how she wanted to please her parents 8–9 On holiday , eating three meals a day — discovered she did not put on weight . |
| 8 | Production expanded so rapidly that home supplies of wool were insufficient , and imports from Australia and South America increased . |
| 9 | I had about five barges to look after and you could n't see everyone — not that I cared so very much , to tell the truth . |
| 10 | Then she laid down as many of the others as she could fit in the space . |
| 11 | Section 6 of the Act stipulated that all elementary schools had to have managers and laid down how many of these should be LEA representatives . |
| 12 | In three short stories about Le Chevalier Dupin , The murders in the Rue Morgue , The Mystery of Marie Roget and The Purloined Letter , Poe laid down virtually all the essentials of the genre which continues happily to this day nearly 150 years later . |
| 13 | Throughout , exports met only about half of their cost . |
| 14 | So far we have assumed that we understand the suggestion that there are minds other than our own , and asked merely how much evidence we have in its favour . |
| 15 | Thus the finding of a series of coins terminating in about 150 BC could not be used as evidence that the occupation of a site ceased in about that year , for even if occupation had continued for another hundred years , no other coins would have been available to be used and lost . |
| 16 | Exactly how it happened we still do not known for sure but you can find examples of the kind of organisms it produced in almost any patch of fresh water . |
| 17 | He cuddled her and felt the bump in a way that made her uneasy as to the propriety of it and asked constantly how this baby was to climb out . |
| 18 | Today its cattle , found on about half of all Danish farms and reduced in recent years from more than 3 million to 2.5 million , are more typical of the plains of mainland northern Europe : they are large-framed , short-horned pied lowlands and Baltic reds . |
| 19 | The Lancashire ‘ cotton famine ’ , due to the cessation of cotton supplies during the American civil war of 1863–66 which caused severe unemployment and poverty , demonstrated most clearly that unemployment could be due to causes over which workers had no control ; it also demonstrated the peaceful fashion in which the labouring poor could behave in such circumstances . |
| 20 | One visitor to India reported on just such an event which occurred in the Bombay presidency at the end of Victoria 's reign : |
| 21 | It may be far more powerful to live free from the past , weighed down as little as possible by how women have been perceived , or have perceived themselves , in that past . |
| 22 | Oxford Crown court heard that the 4 year old girl who weighed only as much as a toddler half her age was found covered in bruises and under nourished . |
| 23 | The messenger moved so fast that Huy barely saw the club as it swung through the air at his throat . |
| 24 | The research found that the take up of prepared training material occurred in only half of the boards studied . |
| 25 | I am , however , rather pleased that my crystal ball behaved so well this year . |
| 26 | As a building , it stands in testimony to the skills and industry of those who contributed in so many ways to its design , construction and furnishing . |
| 27 | He gave in that connection some instances from The Rock , which he described not so much as a play as a revue , a word he pronounced in the French manner . |
| 28 | Although the next stage , Physical Recreation , involved just as much personal effort , Fiona loved it . |
| 29 | Gould 's impatience and his disappointment stemmed not so much from the fruits of his collecting , but from the frustration of inactivity and the miscarriage of a good project . |
| 30 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |