Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Production expanded so rapidly that home supplies of wool were insufficient , and imports from Australia and South America increased . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Throughout , exports met only about half of their cost . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The messenger moved so fast that Huy barely saw the club as it swung through the air at his throat . |
| 12 | I am , however , rather pleased that my crystal ball behaved so well this year . |
| 13 | Although the next stage , Physical Recreation , involved just as much personal effort , Fiona loved it . |
| 14 | As a result , Mr Jacobs says , it cost nearly as much to make an episode of Paradise , with relatively unknown actors , as an episode of Dallas , with its big stars . |
| 15 | Some of the pro bags weighed nearly as much as the clubs . |
| 16 | So France , which built far too much nuclear capacity with cheap government-backed loans , exports electricity to Britain and Italy at absurdly low rates . |
| 17 | ‘ It cost far too much and is far too grand for an old fellow like me . ’ |
| 18 | I have heard my own favourite , Alchemilla mollis a useful hardy gap-filler , described as just that by a fellow gardener . |
| 19 | This movement was transmitted to cranks on the rear wheel by connecting rods ; the machine weighed almost exactly half a hundredweight and the physical effort required to ride it must have been very considerable . |
| 20 | Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Fresh Start controversy , it is worth noting that research on its effects found twice as many examples of deteriora-tion in prison regimes as of enhancement ( McDermott and King , 1999 ) . |
| 21 | Leader John Smith dined there earlier this week and other regulars include Shadow Cabinet members Jack Cunningham , Robin Cook , Frank Dobson , and ex-GLC leader Ken Livingstone . |
| 22 | We moved forward again some way and into the assault trenches — the Rifle Brigade was to form the second wave of the attack . |
| 23 | Junior creditors got just over half , and preference shareholders the rest — all at the expense of senior creditors . |
| 24 | I expected just about this . |
| 25 | It was only recently I realised just how many animals have to be taken into care because of their owner 's neglect . |
| 26 | After I got back to work I realised just how many people do n't give blood in the Institute ( which is what prompted me to write this article ) . |
| 27 | Pamela realised just how much she missed watching them . |
| 28 | Suddenly she realised just how much she 'd been hoping that Jake and Janice were still not married . |
| 29 | For the first time in her life she realised just how little opposition she had ever had to face — in anything . |
| 30 | Eventually his mother was asked to remove him because the staff never managed to bring his behaviour under control ; they found that he produced just too much undesirable behaviour for them to get to grips with . |