Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a long document ( as one speaker remarked , there was a danger it would grow so long that no one would read it ) , but after only two days of discussion the fathers voted overwhelmingly to accept the draft as the basis for the final document and went on to debate it section by section . |
| 2 | Her words were ringing in her ears as she eventually made her way through Customs . |
| 3 | Created by Alex Raymond in the 1930's Flash eventually made his way onto the Commodore with a little help from Mastertronic Added Dimension , a budget house set up by Mastertronic . |
| 4 | In spite of his frustrations , though , he fell in love with the country and eventually made his home in Jerusalem . |
| 5 | For Hesketh , now committed to racing and to Hunt 's career — with a generosity unparalleled in FI — it seemed as sensible to take Hunt straight up into FI , and Hunt duly made his debut at a non-championship race at Brands Hatch early in 1973 , there earning , in a used Surtees TS9B , a third place just behind Denny Hulme — and Hulme was , let it be noted , driving the McLaren M23 , a far more advanced car . |
| 6 | However , Mr. Collins ( if I have understood him correctly ) has expressly limited his challenge to Lautro 's failure to allow the making of representations before the service of the intervention notice . |
| 7 | ‘ Not if I had to face a helicopter journey every time I wanted to come into town , ’ he drawled , and then slowly lowered his gaze to her red mouth , murmuring , ‘ So … do you want to see the bedrooms ? ’ |
| 8 | We thereby maximise our chance of demonstrating what we are looking for . |
| 9 | During 1959 the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile lobby successfully argued their case for automated weapons . |
| 10 | ‘ Carry on enjoying your life in your own home with a Stannah Stairlift … ‘ |
| 11 | We knew very little about these last clients of the season except that they were two attorneys and a proctologist , all from Georgia and all vacationing with their wives , and we also knew that one of the wives was a vegetarian and that the proctologist hated pasta , but beyond that our guests were utter strangers and so we waited nervously to see what kind of people would be our companions and paymasters for the next week . |
| 12 | Alain asked quietly as they slowly made their way to the car later . |
| 13 | She waited until the car vanished round the bend then waited some more until the whine of the engine was at last lost in the distance , then she slowly made her way into the house . |
| 14 | I slowly made my way down the road . |
| 15 | He slowly made his way along the train of fish vans . |
| 16 | A mother 's task is thus not to create something out of nothing but rather to dovetail her behaviour to that of the infant 's . [ … ] |
| 17 | In both instances a worker , acting in his own self-interest , may choose to retain his benefits ( by refusing extra pay or a job ) , thereby perpetuating his dependency on the Welfare State . |
| 18 | Athelstan checked that the windows and doors of the priest 's house were locked , slung his saddle bags over a protesting Philomel , and both horse and rider wearily made their way along the icy track . |
| 19 | But if artists and art critics go on nursing their grudge against everything Soviet and do not combine their efforts in order to organise a museum of Soviet culture , which would highlight the Soviet variant of Socialism , this artistic phenomenon will inevitably disappear like the notorious armoured car . |
| 20 | If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home . |
| 21 | Peggy Ashcroft duly got her gong for playing Lilian , 50 years in the bin , but She 's Been Away was considerably more than a kind of Rain Woman ; a vehicle for acting technique . |
| 22 | ‘ Rents should be related to the capital value of the property , thereby reflecting its popularity in market terms ’ . |
| 23 | His portrait was modified , in stages which can be dated by coins , from a depiction in the tradition of a Hellenistic king to one based on the canons valued in the Greek city-state , thereby reflecting his change from being one of the warlords in the civil wars after Caesar 's death to a new ‘ democratic ’ position after the settlement as first citizen , ‘ first among equals ’ ( fig. 17 ) . |
| 24 | These great leviathans of the air eventually met their demise with the development of British high flying aircraft armed with guns firing incendiary bullets . |
| 25 | ‘ Right-ho ! ’ and he slowly squelched his way through the gate and out of sight . |
| 26 | Finally it was abandoned in a back street in Kingsbury , and the four students thankfully made their way on foot to Wembley Tube Station . |
| 27 | None the less , the changes in ‘ Bantu education ’ have not fundamentally altered its status as education for inferiority and subservience . |
| 28 | As she joined him , rather shyly accepting his glance of approval at her slim body in its white bikini , the wind stirred his hair , blowing it out of its rigidly swept-back style . |
| 29 | It is human nature to advocate change in someone else 's affairs whilst vigorously opposing its necessity in one 's own . |
| 30 | At first we just made conversation , but after a couple of drinks Reid looked at me thoughtfully , twiddling his half-empty glass , and said , ‘ There 's no reason not to tell you this , Kit , but since we 've got to work together , I 'd rather explain my mode of living before the old cats on the island — the European gossips — start telling you stories . |