Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together with the Socialist Party ( 142 seats ) and a new Christian Democratic party called the Mouvement Républicain Populaire ( 152 seats ) , the PCF formed a bloc which effectively ruled out the possibility of any constitution that de Gaulle could approve . |
| 2 | The last few years have been stressful for teacher education , for it has not only experienced the constant need for self- defence of higher education generally , but also special pressures from the Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education ( CATE ) , set up in 1984 , and the new funding arrangements for in-service education started in 1986 ( which effectively wiped out the source of student funding for most full-time award-bearing courses ) . |
| 3 | When I eventually got home the crumpet packet was lying empty on the kitchen floor while Bilbo Baggins , the new puppy my daughters had brought home from the dogs ' home , was lying full beside it . |
| 4 | She bent over Rob 's hand and slowly , deftly drew out the sliver of wood . |
| 5 | He slipped a hand beneath Corbett 's cloak and deftly drew out the clerk 's knife which he stuck into his own sturdy leather-studded belt , and almost dragged the horse across the market-place . |
| 6 | William himself , by comparison , seems to represent a remarkable degree of geographical stability : he was born and died in Islington , seems to have travelled but little , and apparently lacked either the desire or the need to move house every few years as his father had done . |
| 7 | She carried Wee Joe 's bowl to the kitchen table and they all watched as she gently moved away the bulb fibre . |
| 8 | It proved so effective that Wedgwood 's QC suddenly threw down the gauntlet to those he had continually derided as the ‘ united aesthetes ’ saying , ‘ If you are so sure you can save this building , buy it yourselves for £1 . ’ |
| 9 | The creation of nominal and fictitious votes was by far the greatest abuse to disfigure Scottish politics in the eighteenth century , but that was a form of political corruption which long survived even the Reform Act of 1832 , and the only abuse which was truly confined to the period under consideration was that which attempted to capitalise upon the opportunities for manipulating the voters , through a judicious application of patronage , which the small number of voters appeared to invite . |
| 10 | The Bishop , who only took up the post last march , was advised by the Archbishop of Canterbury to take a rest from his official duties . |
| 11 | But his skill at political in-fighting and his doctrinal tussles with Mensheviks and renegade Bolsheviks only took on the importance they did because they led his party to positions which found a response within the wider revolutionary movement . |
| 12 | She only took over the field 6 months ago and fears young hooligans are trying to drive her and her animals away . |
| 13 | I only took out the palace because I knew I 'd given I 'd written a cheque for forty |
| 14 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 15 | As was only to be expected , the Tory press eagerly took up the cry . |
| 16 | But Izzie , watching the figure loping towards them with his strange , wolf-like walk , suddenly knew how the Devil will look on the day of his Redemption . |
| 17 | Lord only knew when the telephone was going to be installed in the house , but if that man thought that he could speak to her however he wanted , safe in the knowledge that she was incommunicado , then he had another think coming . |
| 18 | The seats were like upholstered benches , and God only knew how the gear-stick operated . |
| 19 | Virtually everybody there had been held on remand or had been to prison before , so knew how the prison ran . |
| 20 | For the diminutive Andy — people often wonder how he hauls around the pro bags that stand as high as him — the triumphs he has shared with Nick Faldo are something of a fulfilment of his own ambition of winning the titles himself : he started as a tournament professional with dreams of a major championship before realizing he would not make the grade as a pro , and so took up the bag instead of the club . |
| 21 | He admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the slow pace of privatisation . |
| 22 | Mr Yeltsin admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the very slow pace of privatisation . |
| 23 | After depositing my faint-hearted photographer at the foot of the craggy slope , I locked the Discovery 's transmission into low-ratio first gear for the steep climb , revved the big V8 engine decisively and gingerly eased out the clutch . |
| 24 | I pulled off my boots , put the stick between my teeth and gently went down the rope into the water . |
| 25 | On to the Poet Laureate , Lord Tennyson and Volume I only of his Works , a book which ordinarily , as an odd volume , might well have been sold for £1 or less had not the inscription on the title turned it into a desirable association item . |
| 26 | To her intense dismay and astonishment , he suddenly hurled down the room in a series of cartwheels ; he made a whizzing plaything of his devilish masked self , a fizzing Catherine wheel , flashing arms and legs , landing on his hands before her , his upside-down false face obscured by hair both false and real , tumbling over his papier-mâché cheeks . |
| 27 | Where your mum lived he just lived down the corner . |
| 28 | ‘ I think you just made up the word . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ What happens now ? ’ she finally asked when the silence between them had become stretched to breaking-point . |
| 30 | You just read out the crap . |