Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When passive smokers were divided into high and low exposure groups on the basis of the amount smoked by their cohabitees , those highly exposed had higher rates of symptoms and death . |
| 2 | So bang went any chance he might have had of hearing things he did not know . |
| 3 | The huge reservoir so created stretched many miles upstream . |
| 4 | The priest whom she eventually accosted took one look at her , an ill-proportioned , arrogant child with cheap clips in her gaudy hair , and started grilling her for an address . |
| 5 | An arm , clad in a golden-brown shirt that she had already noticed did marvellous things for his dark hair and amber eyes , transferred her smoothly to the settee , without her spilling a drop of coffee . |
| 6 | The new structures as finally adopted comprised three bodies — a State Council , a revised Supreme Soviet , and an interim Economic Committee . |
| 7 | Half of those not employed gave ill health as the reason . |
| 8 | The 36% of the thesis information not published included unclear results , negative results , or information which could neither be slotted into the papers nor aggregated to make a whole paper . |
| 9 | The 36% of the thesis information not published included unclear results , negative results , or information which could neither be slotted into the papers nor aggregated to make a whole paper . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly , those who were already established had little sympathy for this proposed redirec-tion of resources . |
| 11 | The 278 vonunteers thus recruited comprised 155 men aged 21 to 91 years ( median 42 years ) and 123 women aged 18 to 83 years ( median 43 years ) . |
| 12 | One of the largest televisions Kate had ever seen dominated one side of the room , its VCR with a cassette just waiting to play . |
| 13 | ‘ No regular soldier I ever knew wore cross bandoleers , or had long hair held back by a headband . |
| 14 | Each partition is a functioning DCP providing in one cabinet the resiliency that up to now required paired individual DCP systems . |
| 15 | Get up at two , I do n't think got much mention to them at all from what I was |
| 16 | Being well known had certain disadvantages for anyone who set a value on privacy . |
| 17 | It seems like the pilot had a problem or he would n't haved effected that manoeuvere . |
| 18 | He had hit the right note of playful yet dignified affection with the children — mischievous Sam Yaxley had proved an ally there ; and even throughout the days of his own distress he had comforted the sick and sorrowful , acting in the simple trust that , however removed chose impoverished lives might seem from his own , they were members of one another . |