Example sentences of "[vb past] in the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when he spoke , he had his audience hanging on his every word as he described in the most modest terms , what was clearly an arduous adventure , expertly carried out . |
| 2 | Arriving from Goldsmiths ' , where the teaching had been disciplined and informed , she encountered in the more haphazardly run Royal College ‘ an overpowering sense of vacuum ’ . |
| 3 | For most people living standards rose in the later nineteenth century . |
| 4 | An intense heat spread through her quivering , eager figure , and she rejoiced in the overwhelmingly sensual pleasure of their entwined bodies , welcoming the deep , shuddering thrust of his virile manhood . |
| 5 | It was a dramatic and impractical outfit of a kind I only expected to see on the male models who posed in the more outlandish fashion magazines that our rich clients brought aboard Wavebreaker , yet Jesse Isambard Sweetman managed to wear the elaborate style with an elegant insouciance . |
| 6 | Five main reactions to the proposal surfaced in the more detailed responses : |
| 7 | He maintained that the distribution of tillites and patterns of glacial striations produced by ice sheets during the Late Palaeozoic glaciation ( now termed the Gondwana Ice Age ) found in the now widely dispersed continental areas of southern Africa , Australia , South America , India and Antarctica indicated that these land masses were contiguous at that time and probably located fairly close to the South Pole . |
| 8 | The interesting question arises : were the several widely acknowledged major episodes of mass extinction in the Phanerozoic caused by exceptional events different in kind from what occurred in the much lengthier intervening periods , or are they merely the spectacular end-members of a whole series ? |
| 9 | All of this instability , it must be emphasized , occurred in the supposedly ‘ objective ’ assessment of basic expenditure needs for Local Authorities . |
| 10 | The German prostitutes were terribly clean and efficient and not one of them seemed in the least turned on by what they were doing . |
| 11 | Not , she thought as she dressed unhurriedly on Wednesday , that Piers seemed in the least bothered by any tension . |
| 12 | Although persuaded to drop this proposal , the brewery redecorated in the most unsympathetic manner , using metallic glazed fabrics and crude reproductions of Morris wallpapers and carpets — destroying any attempt at a period interior ( which the 1960s restoration had , ironically , tried to create ) . |
| 13 | Of 90 women surveyed , those who ate in the very late stages of pregnancy had their babies approximately 1½ hours earlier than the others . |
| 14 | The lawyer had always maintained that the money he received was a legitimate success fee for the vital role he played in the bitterly fought takeover battle . |
| 15 | THERE WAS a fin de siecle air in London 's clubland last night — flames danced in the rarely used gas lanterns along Pall Mall as elegantly dressed members of the Institute of Directors , the Athenaeum , Reform and Travellers ’ Clubs digested the implications of early poll results . |
| 16 | For a while business was brisk , then the crowd drifted away to watch an old man further down the lane who cavorted and danced in the most fantastical way . |
| 17 | My second disaster of the trip happened in the very minute of taking the camper van onto the road . |
| 18 | They differed in the seemingly trivial but nonetheless diagnostic character of having not one but two pairs of antennae on their heads . |
| 19 | Michael Lee , although he dressed , talked and had the manners of an Englishman , was a half-caste — it showed in the vaguely Oriental slant to his features , and the slight pigmentation of his skin . |
| 20 | For the moment , however , there was still an outside chance that when the nationalist and communist members of what was described as a good-will parliamentary mission from Hanoi — and Ho as President — arrived in the more liberal and relaxed atmosphere of Paris an understanding might have been reached . |
| 21 | Given the central objective of this category of public interest immunity as ‘ the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force , ’ given the grave public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice on the part of some at least of those who served in the now disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , given the extensive publicity already attaching to the documents here in question following the appellant 's successful appeal , it seems to us nothing short of absurd to suppose that those who co-operated in this investigation — largely other police officers and court officials — will regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses will withhold it , were this court now to release the documents to C.N.L. to enable them to defeat if they can an allegedly corrupt claim in damages . |
| 22 | The QGM was awarded for the ‘ outstanding bravery ’ he displayed in the most difficult and hazardous situations . |
| 23 | The QGM was awarded for the ‘ outstanding bravery ’ he displayed in the most difficult and hazardous situations . |
| 24 | On probably the quietest-ever day of transfer-deadline dealing — Bournemouth striker Efan Ekoku commanded the biggest fee when joining Norwich for £500,000 plus possible increments — veteran Leighton figured in the most intriguing move . |
| 25 | I lived in the most beautiful house in England but I was always lonely and sad . |
| 26 | They seemed strangely modern , suggestively effective as a sculpture by Picasso ; they lived in the now . |
| 27 | The Inca stones in Cuzco also lived in the now . |
| 28 | And so , judged from my standpoint , erm which is that of other ancient and distinguished editions , I would say that in this respect he did ultimately fail , but failed in the most lovable , eloquent and memorable manner . |
| 29 | They seemed so much less menacing than the crows that pecked and fought in the newly harvested fields at home . |
| 30 | Once we finally identified the leaked document , we countered in the most conclusive way known in politics : we published it in its entirety . |