Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , no ? ’ he drawled mockingly as he slowly lowered his dark head towards her . |
| 2 | Damian Flint slowly lowered his dark head . |
| 3 | Throughout 1990 and the first half of 1991 the SLORC had imposed a series of legal restrictions on the NLD and other opponents which effectively frustrated their political ambitions . |
| 4 | In 1987 , Tyacke vigorously restated his original position in his book Anti-Calvinists : The rise of English Arminianism c. 1590 1640 , only to be turned on once more by his critics . |
| 5 | He eventually realised his only chance of survival was to make his own way down the peak . |
| 6 | This rather cooled their high spirits , because Missenden 's failure to do what was required of him about some case of ecclesiastical preferment was criticized . |
| 7 | A MOTHER stabbed to death a pensioner the day after charges alleging he raped and indecently assaulted her four-year-old daughter were dropped , a court was told today . |
| 8 | Later developments in the understanding of kinship and lineage relationships owed much to his discussions of this topic , but many of his academic successors — notably ( Sir ) E. E. Evans-Pritchard [ q.v. ] and ( Sir ) E. R. Leach — effectively dismissed his doctrinaire methodology . |
| 9 | Like when a woman slowly unbuttoned her yellow clothes , let them fall down around her waist . |
| 10 | Green eyes stared back at her from beneath dark slanting brows but with her short hair that accentuated her elfin face she somehow felt the swimsuit only made her slight figure look even more boyish . |
| 11 | Helen , too , was frequently informed of his over-readiness to fall in love with an attractive outward appearance , even as he constantly restated his heavy dependence upon his engrossed love for her : |
| 12 | The subscribers merely asked their local operator ( no dials in those days ) to connect them to Electrophone . |
| 13 | Winter storms swiftly obliterated his expensive engineering structures . |
| 14 | Roy Bailey made his Palace debut at the age of just 17 years , but he only became our regular goalkeeper after his spell of National Service had ended early in 1953 , and then it soon became clear that Roy was a goalkeeper of the highest quality , even though he was performing in a Palace side that was almost invariably struggling . |
| 15 | Billy Fullerton 's Protestant gang from Bridgeton wreaked havoc on Catholics , especially if they incautiously made themselves easy targets by wearing a Celtic scarf . |
| 16 | Although he was a leading member of the Danzig Party it would probably be fair to describe him as a misguided liberal who only realised his mistaken alliance when he saw the brownshirts pulling on their kicking boots . |
| 17 | Damian sat opposite her , and every glance at his tough face only underlined her rash promise to her . |
| 18 | The earlier unicellular species were by now well adapted to their environment , and only changed their biochemical functions because of the genetic ‘ errors ’ , the mutations , that periodically occurred . |
| 19 | Sex the night before picking up his pen apparently impaired his literary powers . |
| 20 | Aged 43 , with two teenage children , Maria only found her perfect profession five years ago . |
| 21 | The ‘ imagined community ’ of a vibrant , important and expanding city , controlled by the organized , skilled , male working class and built on the strength of its steel and cutlery industries long outlived its real dissolution . |
| 22 | His partially-aroused prick became as hard as iron as she gently massaged his loose foreskin . |
| 23 | MacDonald decided , naturally but disastrously , that the obvious objective was to import into the living rooms of the wireless-owning population the soaring platform oratory which so moved his immediate audiences . |
| 24 | The pathologist suddenly dropped his habitual banter , and looked Morse in the eye . |
| 25 | She apparently told her sometime lover , Marlon Brando , ‘ I do n't know if I do it right ’ and Norman Mailer , another to enjoy her favours , was quoted as saying that the screen goddess was ‘ pleasant in bed , but receptive rather than innovative ’ . |
| 26 | Roman slid the zip of her black cotton dress down to her waist and she shivered as his hand gently explored her smooth shoulder and traced a line from the sensitive pulse in her throat to the valley between her breasts . |
| 27 | His trouble was that he drank far too much strong tea and so ruined his digestive system . |
| 28 | However , the character of Breathless only assumed its current prominence after a shrewd Warren Beatty snagged Madonna for the role . |
| 29 | Its name is associated with the site of the battle in 1388 when the men of Glarus defeated a greatly superior Austrian army and so regained their independent liberties . |
| 30 | His trip to the Caribbean , and subsequent lecture tour , not only widened his democratic vistas , it allowed him to expand upon his vision of an independent Trinidad whilst laying the foundation of his emergence as its intellectual spokesman . |