Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she had already lost her balance as she impossibly tried to juggle Equal Opportunities , shortage of staff and time , and the torrent of ‘ open access ’ job applications . |
| 2 | Maggie kept catching her eye with an expression of knowing amusement , but at the same time she obviously hated having these men stomping through her every possession and destroying any remaining magic in her secret chamber . |
| 3 | The company needed workers , and so began building small terraces of houses for its labourers to live in . |
| 4 | Gandhi only began to undertake serious fasts — that is , fasts where there was a danger to his life , as opposed to brief fasts for purposes of spiritual discipline or penance — after he had established a reputation for sanctity and a large following based to some extent on that reputation . |
| 5 | Henri was a totally normal baby until six months , when he suddenly started having infantile spasms . |
| 6 | The principal author of the market reform programme , Abalkin was booed and slow hand-clapped during an impassioned speech in which he declared that the party hitherto had failed socialist ideals in every respect , and would be swept aside if it stood in the way of a market economy . |
| 7 | His lips traced the curves his finger had explored , and then he delved sensuously deeper , his tongue finding hers and abruptly intensifying the embrace , as if the intimacy of their tongues together had driven any intentions of reserve and restraint from his mind … |
| 8 | The monarch remained the chief executive in the state : he alone continued to determine all matters of policy ( foreign and domestic ) ; he had the right to choose his own ministers ; he retained the right to veto legislation ; and he was left with the power to determine the summoning , proroguing and dissolution of Parliament . |
| 9 | They perhaps had to give two books up . |
| 10 | But his feet — as though contemptuous of all such academic preoccupations — had taken him by chance to a long , shabby street of bow-fronted houses which obviously had known better days . |
| 11 | I was glad that I was n't one of those Portuguese or Italians who only had to go three hours without shaving for there to be a blue carpet on their chin . |
| 12 | He only had to wait 6–8 weeks . |
| 13 | For this he only had to spend four months in France , thus profiting from considerable tax concessions for non residents . |
| 14 | Luckily , I was put on their reduced fee scheme and only had to pay six pounds a session . |
| 15 | The reason was that they could not resolve ambiguity between competing lexical interpretations on a word-by-word basis , and so had to maintain possible interpretations in a representation that was separate from the lexicon . |
| 16 | By the time he was twenty Rasputin had married a local girl and before long had sired four children . |
| 17 | Both Corps had to be pulled out of the line , exhausted , on March 12th ; by which time the XVIIIth alone had lost 10,309 men and 295 officers . |
| 18 | We looked , and though we never said so , we believed that we alone had seen these things , that they had never been seen before . |
| 19 | The trip home must have been hazardous for Mars alone had suffered 72 hits , leaving 29 of her complement dead and 85 wounded , and she now had three feet [ 0.9 m ] of water in her hold . |
| 20 | T'Home does n't run to one , and t'daughter only wanted to get all t'kids back to Sunderland . " |
| 21 | It would have been sensible to consult my book of British butterflies before I started for I soon realised using authentic colours greatly improves the overall impression ; if you can , I would suggest you refer to a book also . |
| 22 | But I soon learnt to get those cows out without messing up my nice clean cow shed , what we used to do , because wanting to get the first one out very quietly , I used to put my hand on the tail , press the tail to the backside and push her out ! |
| 23 | Mechanisms already existed to oversee ethical questions . |
| 24 | They found the babies who were left for longer began to make crawling movements towards the breast after 20 minutes , and after 50 minutes virtually all had suckled correctly at the breast — and were more likely to breastfeed successfully as a result afterwards . |
| 25 | Brenda soon began to have lovely rides on her bike . |
| 26 | Far too many of them , however , soon started to produce technical problems of one kind or another which almost immediately swamped the tiny number of experts in organic materials who were available at the Royal Aircraft Establishment . |
| 27 | Andy 's a real mate he just kept saying straight heads er for all the times when I might have said oh , I could n't really talk to some people last night and he 'd say what you mean straight heads ? he 's right . |
| 28 | I only just remembered to put some clothes on . |
| 29 | ( 'Sorry I 'm late — I just had to confirm some bookings on our European tour . |
| 30 | I just had to supply three bikes . |