Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And the , the water to bathe in came from the local river and er it was very very sandy and it just looked like mud that you were having to get in and do your bath . |
| 32 | Perhaps hindered by the unflattering acoustic of the concert hall , the result was all too often lost in a welter of sound and over-stressed consonants with all the control of a recalcitrant Sunday school outing . |
| 33 | In about 1895 the trade began to raise the popular image of the ‘ undertaker ’ from being a person who merely disposed of the dead to a funeral director whose main object is service to the public . |
| 34 | The phenomenon of crumbling historic buildings , greatly accelerated in the twentieth century , is also attributed to the blight of acid rain . |
| 35 | Because the tall , dark and extremely handsome man — whom she only recognised as the mega-rich industrialist , Ross Wyndham when it was far too late to do anything about it ! — seemed to move across the pavement with the speed of light . |
| 36 | The Gedge boy , who apparently spied on the entire population of Dynmouth , had no doubt seen him . |
| 37 | But the enormous changes in the social life and industrial occupations of the vast majority of our people , changes begun in the sixteenth century and greatly accentuated by the so-called Industrial Revolution , have created a gulf between the world of poetry and that world of everyday life from which we receive our " habitual impressions " . |
| 38 | In general , though , it was considered taboo — a place scientists should not tread — until the tide apparently turned at the 1986 international conference of human geneticists in Berlin , where participants openly discussed the possibilities . |
| 39 | That child labour not only existed in the pre-factory economy but was strongly approved of does not of itself make blinkered sentimentalists of those who reacted so strongly to the " dark , satanic mills " . |
| 40 | On one occasion a friend of mine , resplendent in new sports jacket and flannels , rather unwisely walked across the diagonal market path . |
| 41 | He almost literally returned from the dead , and his personal memoir , Facing Death , was the strongest thing he had written since the '50s . |
| 42 | The snobbish distinction between art and craft only began in the eighteenth century amongst collectors who felt it necessary to describe creativity according to their social or monetary values . |
| 43 | Thrilled with the sight of the hot coffee , Mother took a paper cup and gingerly walked towards the darkened screening room . |
| 44 | Some researchers had become so daunted by the devious nature of the virus , which can hide within the cells of the body , that they felt a vaccine would be impossible . |
| 45 | .. When , at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon we rounded the last promontory which separated us from what was once the magnificent panorama of St Pierre , we suddenly perceived at the opposite extremity of the roadstead the Riviere Blanche with its crest of vapour , rushing madly into the sea . |
| 46 | This time she did n't wait to see if anyone would come , but swiftly glanced to the small instrument tray . |
| 47 | Described by the government as a Japanese cultural tradition , the consumption of whale meat only started after the second world war , when it filled a dietary gap . |
| 48 | Therefore the Supreme Court 's analysis of the case really only revolved around the second question presented to it , namely , conviction under the mail and wire fraud statutes . |
| 49 | Instantly , the reaching figure became a puppet , jerking backwards in a pirouette that suddenly collapsed with the abrupt finality of cut strings . |
| 50 | A usual ploy was to have to re-tie one 's gym shoe just as one 's turn came round , but it only staved off the evil moment . |
| 51 | ‘ A concession he obviously exercised to the full , ’ she contented herself with murmuring instead , her eyes dancing with amusement as she enjoyed his discomfort , a feeling of relief pervading her that she was about to locate Suzie at last . |
| 52 | Wolf was awake , instantly , and instantly into a fighting stance ; but Fox only collapsed to the other mattress , and lay there , still . |
| 53 | But sometimes he only thought of the next performance . |
| 54 | He was glad because — well , not having kids before , he only thought about the nice side of being a dad , he did n't think about the bad side . |
| 55 | The police officer personally listened to the complete tapes of the interviews and I am therefore not in a position to give a conclusive answer to the question . ’ |
| 56 | But if you only went on the square foot it do n't matter how big it was well that 's like , surely that 'd be fairer ? |
| 57 | Mind yer , we only went in the cheapest seats . |
| 58 | It only improved in the last years of the nineteenth century with the company 's realization of a profitable traffic in middle-class commuters living at the seaside while working in Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 59 | This led to confusion over concentration with the term minimum inhibitory concentration ( MIC ) being used as and mistaken for dosage rate when it merely related to the bacteriostatic performance against certain bacteria under artificial conditions and at specific concentrations . |
| 60 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |