Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It got rather sort of upgraded . |
| 2 | I , I do n't often agree with Jim about anything , but I really do agree with him about this , that there has to be some clear guidelines , I think , as to how these are fixed , they are not going be have the potential of being very unfair to people because people operate in different ways in different areas and I would suggest that it would be a good idea if this community were to ask for erm guidelines to be drafted for this committee to agree so that there is a more even fair , laid down procedure for dealing with the cases coming before the panel . |
| 3 | Modern deposits are not , it seems , laid down layer upon layer over a wide area . |
| 4 | Mary Bunn , hitting the keys harder and harder for Jesus , lifted herself off the stool and brought her bum down with a crash as she laid down chord after chord . |
| 5 | The silence continued long , while Harry picked up and laid down tool after tool , smoothed a finger-nail along the chisels , hefted the mallets , turning and twisting like a caged animal with the fury of his longing and the rigidity of his pride . |
| 6 | The knights engaged in close combat but the jousting was cancelled after the first few contests as the horses were unsure of their footing in the mud and consequently the inept efforts of the knights produced only laughter from the spectators . |
| 7 | B&C shares recovered only part of their losses , closing 16p down at 92p , because the rumours coincided with downgradings of the company by three analysts . |
| 8 | The guarantee , however , generated only an action in personam , and admitted only judgment in terms of money . |
| 9 | But in the two weeks , as they moved slowly north into the forested hills and grassy uplands close to the hill station of Dalat , they had killed between them prime specimens of almost all the groups required for the museum . |
| 10 | He devoted much thought to the shape of the future church . |
| 11 | Initially JET used only deuterium as fuel . |
| 12 | Lucie sucked in air through his teeth . |
| 13 | Bernice sucked in air with a rasping gasp that hurt her throat . |
| 14 | This drew together evidence from sociological research and from official sources on inequalities in health in the 1980s , and on the progress ( or lack of it ) made on the policy recommendations of the Black Report . |
| 15 | The canoe moved swiftly south from Oahu , west of Molokai , towards the Big Island at the southernmost tip of the Hawaiian chain . |
| 16 | The real turning point occurred just north of Châlons , during September when , in one of the bloodiest battles of human history , over 200,000 men were killed in hand-to-hand combat in less than twenty-four hours . |
| 17 | It is sadly obvious that as the author of the guidebook moved further south into regions more and more unfamiliar to him so his prejudices became more and more vitriolic . |
| 18 | It crashed yesterday afternoon on a farm at Severnhampton , near Swindon . |
| 19 | It crashed yesterday afternoon on a farm at Severnhampton , near Swindon . |
| 20 | The Arab man charged yesterday morning into a high school in Jewish West Jerusalem with a kitchen knife shouting ‘ Allahu Akbar ’ ( God is Great ) . |
| 21 | ‘ My colleague in America phoned yesterday evening about your book . ’ |
| 22 | In doing so he also provided further evidence of his ability to mobilize significant numbers of black and working class white voters in the South . |
| 23 | In the aftermath of the Vietnamese troop withdrawal in September 1989 [ see pp. 36881-82 ] , the rebel armies moved from guerrilla tactics to more conventional fighting and the civil war in Cambodia encroached further east into population centres . |
| 24 | He rose up light in the stirrups , He scarce could reach her hand , but she loosened her casement , his face burnt like a brand . |
| 25 | Interestingly , Cassoni was recruited because Bill Lowe , who headed up development of the original IBM personal computer , left to join Gulfstream . |
| 26 | Father ‘ beat up prisoner in jail ’ |
| 27 | Even in his own troubled mind , Vologsky dredged up sympathy for the old man . |
| 28 | ‘ They call that botched up bit of hand-sewing a golem ? |
| 29 | The robot business began to look brighter as we built up experience in putting the machines to work . |
| 30 | On this morning however , they dallied somewhat so that each might have the off-chance of that little bit of news that other people call gossip , which the other might add to the jigsaw of seemingly useless information built up bit by bit in small minds . |