Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little Stu stayed with the women most of the time , and Ross was in the pram , but Billy and Sandy went wild . |
| 2 | Nervously Meredith gazed at the open water ahead and then back at Venice , the minarets and bell-towers , the tall palaces just a distant unfocused blur in the morning mist . |
| 3 | Excessive editing of videotape was not to be encouraged in 1961 and so Newman worked to the formula of having live action done in the electronic studio , and the Visual Effects , plus other control critical sequences , done on film — a small , but important development in British science fiction programme making . |
| 4 | So Schaffer sat with a stack of paperback books from Hamilton 's corner rack , and occasionally tried to catch Hennessy to pump him for information . |
| 5 | ‘ You know , Piper , I was so shit scared during the bombardment that I lay on the floor of that trench and prayed . |
| 6 | ‘ I shall have to report this to my superiors , ’ he finally said , when only Peggy remained in the tent . |
| 7 | Yeah , so mum went into the ward and she said he 's awfully yellow , is that normal ? |
| 8 | The deep rumbling of the explosions dying down to a hissing of falling dust , everything grew quiet , and the twenty or so survivors collapsed against a low wall to get their breath back . |
| 9 | Beyond the pine , and a little lower on the cliff , a dozen or so bushes grew from a wide fissure . |
| 10 | So Molly stood in the kitchen , the centre of the house , with its door opening on to the terrace , where now , for certain , no one stood watching her . |
| 11 | Suddenly Hari thought of the man who had escaped from the prison , he was the same sort as Emily Grenfell , no doubt before he fell from grace they would have met and socialized . |
| 12 | So Freud wrote in The Ego and the Id , and the same point is found in other outlines of psychoanalysis written by Freud . |
| 13 | Only Ceauşescu came to the ‘ obvious ’ conclusion : the debt should not be rescheduled , it should be paid off as quickly as possible . |
| 14 | So Ramsey cried to the Church not to dilute itself , or adjust itself to what contemporary Smith or Jones can swallow . |
| 15 | So matters stood in the immediate aftermath of the war . |
| 16 | So Law said of the Liberals in 1914 : " They have become revolutionaries , and becoming revolutionaries they have lost the right to that implicit obedience that can be claimed by a Constitutional Government . " |
| 17 | At first the trenches were merely lines dug to the depth of an average man 's height , with little attempt being made to shore them up , so even a little rain could cause the sides to collapse . |
| 18 | So Carol ran into the hall and fetched the broom — which her mummy said was properly called a besom , and which she had used as the witch 's broom in the play . |
| 19 | part of her expected to find them laughing at his wild reaction beyond all sense and to return her to the blessed normal but when she looked around only Maggie stood in the room . |
| 20 | It is clear that the North of England and especially Scotland contributed to the large advance of 1792 over 1788 . |
| 21 | Under the sepia of the sky only starlight shone on the frost around her . |
| 22 | As the Reich Nazi Party moved towards its own internal revolution so tensions arose within the Danzig Nazi Party too . |
| 23 | As he got more excited as they got closer to Pollensa so Ruth sank into a deeper depression . |
| 24 | And so Katherine moved into the spacious apartment on New York 's Upper East Side , overlooking Central Park and a stone 's throw from the Metropolitan Museum . |
| 25 | So Mr talked in the debate about internal reorganisation about continuing to provide services for which there is an over provision and it berated me and the Labour group for that . |
| 26 | As the Poles organised themselves to combat the increasingly virulent Germanisation policies of the new German Reich , so cash flowed into the newly created and increasingly efficient Polish Land Banks . |
| 27 | car conked out so Vicki stayed with the car and her who we were going to take a walk in Ruddington , and I walked home with her to get Malcolm to go over with the other car . |
| 28 | So Deborah returned along the DANGER path on Farmer Plant 's horse , which was a big one named Sultan and she enjoyed it enormously , especially as Farmer Plant let her take the reins when she told him she knew how to ride . |
| 29 | When the specimen was loaded in a testing machine the edges were stressed as much as the middle and so cracks started at the edges and spread inwards across the material in the usual way . |
| 30 | The last class is quite exclusive ; only dogs rehomed from an NCDL kennel are eligible . |