Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the shepherd eventually limped back to civilisation and told his unlikely tale , the authorities located the treasure and imprisoned the shepherd for theft . |
| 2 | The wind rose in a rending sigh , filling the night with sound , and slowly sank again to quietness . |
| 3 | Her three children , Karen , 25 , Nicki , 23 , and Mark , 21 , all lived away from home . |
| 4 | He only got away with money in one of the raids . |
| 5 | ‘ I suddenly got out of bed half naked . |
| 6 | They and the school together planned ahead in order to make it possible for pupils to feel that they , too , knew themselves better . |
| 7 | Corbett walked across and was grateful when Selkirk diplomatically moved out of earshot . |
| 8 | But I mean , we only found out by accident yesterday ! |
| 9 | Although Crewe are reluctant to sell , Hignett now seems certain to follow in the footsteps of Platt , Rob Jones and Geoff Thomas , who all moved on to win international honours after launching their first team careers at Gresty Road . |
| 10 | In fact , the housing benefit scheme only came fully into operation in April 1983 . |
| 11 | He believed that he got up and felt his feet sink through the floor while the music from down below came up like vapour and was breathed rather than heard . |
| 12 | ‘ I knew that there was always the danger that I could lose my sight , but I really thought it only happened later in life , ’ says Philippa . |
| 13 | The girl who had shown her in turned back to Folly with the question on her lips . |
| 14 | It is safe to say that thousands of social workers are at the moment carrying such cases among their caseloads and are working on them : in some cases very efficiently , in others perhaps hampered somewhat by lack of understanding of the implications . |
| 15 | Once she suddenly landed up in hospital for what was not an emergency ; several times she had found herself in a new home ; and on one occasion she had arrived in another country with a new ‘ father ’ — all without warning or previous explanation . |
| 16 | In some cases — Spain and Greece for example — the examinations were very irregular in their application and for long existed largely on paper . |
| 17 | Before this , much of Building 3 and its associated courtyard apparently went out of use , judging from an extensive stony layer deposited across their remains . |
| 18 | Those at the north end of Normangate Field remained essentially agricultural in character throughout the second century , after which they apparently went out of use . |
| 19 | She naturally felt out of place in their chalet and accepted the invitation of Simon Berry , the son of a wealthy wine merchant , to join his chalet party . |
| 20 | The most difficult requisite to produce was ‘ Conscience ’ for the struggles for political liberty had always been in the name of ‘ Rights ’ , and in this conflict , ‘ the other side of the civic relation naturally fell out of sight ’ . |
| 21 | The longest-running powder ski of this type was the Fischer Future Extreme , which only went out of production a couple of years ago . |
| 22 | She only went out after dark , to walk in the woods and the fields . |
| 23 | Nightside was the name he gave the side of the school with all the dormitories on because most people only went there at night . |
| 24 | Indeed , in 1984 some eighteen smallish tour operators failed and in late 1984 an important firm , Budget Travel ( the tenth largest at the time ) also suddenly went out of business . |
| 25 | Scheduled to appear in 38 Carry Ons but only appeared once by mistake when he walked through a shot by accident . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's particularly fun when all the actors come in dressed up in costume — it 's like being in some surreal painting . ’ |
| 27 | New South Wales , on the other hand , ran in six tries to win quite convincingly in the end , although it has to be said in Scotland 's defence that they came close on several occasions to scoring a try and only slipped out of range in the last five minutes when they conceded two tries , both of which were converted . |
| 28 | In production terms , the morning paper perhaps had more in common with the assembly line than with the production of most TV programmes . |
| 29 | A child clutching its small amount of pocket-money was so rooked , so palmed off with rubbish . |
| 30 | Jessamy suddenly ran out of patience . |