Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dissolution of CENTO left ASEAN as the primary multilateral body of states in Asia predominantly oriented towards the Western powers in its security outlook and ties . |
| 2 | There was a red light up , and he was stopped by a policeman as he reached the opposite pavement and duly asked for the appropriate number of marks . |
| 3 | And er we , we did n't do an awful lot on commercial later on , we gave up that er thing we , we mostly concentrated on the private cars . |
| 4 | In February 1974 the original lessee assigned the lease to the second defendant , a company , which duly entered into the required covenant directly with the landlord . |
| 5 | The issue rarely surfaced in the showery south-east until a string of droughts in the 1980s . |
| 6 | True to recent form Omagh conceded a first-half goal , and late in the game two more , as the Crues won a match which rarely rose above the mediocre . |
| 7 | The danger and the extra effort needed to shoe a colt for the first time was recognized by a custom called in some districts of East Anglia by the term First Nail which presumably referred to the violent shock the first nail would give to the colt . |
| 8 | Blue eyeshadow , much reviled for the past five years , is back at Chanel , Lancôme and Rubinstein and has never been out at Lauder — Mrs Lauder is a firm believer in the power of blue . |
| 9 | I he opportunity for doing so arose in the Middle East . |
| 10 | In the late 1960s it only applied to the clearing banks . |
| 11 | I only got inside the front door cos it 's Tuesday night her night in the kitchen , so I went back home and he did n't half swear at me , he said you bloody well go again you want your head tested , I could have cried I thought oh well cos I did n't feel like rushing around |
| 12 | The decline of Woodstock relative to Oxford merely led to the increasing importance of the present main road . |
| 13 | It worked out and then they only lived in the other half while they were doing it , was n't it ? |
| 14 | In the tenth century the Kiev merchants used to half-drag , half-row their small boats , monoxyla , past the Dnieper rapids on the way to the Byzantine markets , constantly menaced by the ferocious Pecheneg people inhabiting the southern steppes . |
| 15 | And I never much cared for the bumptious , muscular side of The Smiths , so I welcome the spaciness Vini Reilly brings as new guitarist , whether it 's the lurid wig-out of ‘ Alsatian Cousin' or the dew-and-moonbeam iridescence of ‘ Late Night , Maudlin Street ’ . |
| 16 | He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design . |
| 17 | The number of kin living together rose during the early industrial period ( up to the middle of the nineteenth century ) and remained fairly constant thereafter . |
| 18 | He very much objected to the inevitable contraction of Nicandra to Nico , which seemed to him common . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Gedge boy , who apparently spied on the entire population of Dynmouth , had no doubt seen him . |
| 24 | 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 " . |
| 25 | 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 " . |
| 26 | On one occasion a friend of mine , resplendent in new sports jacket and flannels , rather unwisely walked across the diagonal market path . |
| 27 | He almost literally returned from the dead , and his personal memoir , Facing Death , was the strongest thing he had written since the '50s . |
| 28 | Thrilled with the sight of the hot coffee , Mother took a paper cup and gingerly walked towards the darkened screening room . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | .. 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 . |