Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO YOUTHS miraculously escaped injury last night when the car they were travelling in crashed off a busy road and into a subway . |
| 2 | But the suspect must have noticed him , because he suddenly waved down a passing taxi and drove off . |
| 3 | You could indeed , you could indeed it it reinforces a point does n't it , so I mean I so went back a few times with the flipchart yesterday with things that we need to re reinforce yes ? |
| 4 | Ahead of him stretched the future , and this time , instead of a summer landscape full of lush green fields , it suddenly took on a closed and wintry air . |
| 5 | This was a cardboard cylinder with a light bulb inside , which rotated and sent out pulses which purportedly brought on a transcendental state . |
| 6 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 7 | Whereas The Snail that Climbed the Eiffel Tower had allowed Minton to rework , in lighter and more decorative form , imagery coined in his landscape drawings of the mid-1940s , Time Was Away opened up a whole new repertoire . |
| 8 | When Wattana effortlessly opened up a 2-0 advantage , Parrott looked in trouble again . |
| 9 | Abruptly she turned away from him and walked into the apartment 's lounge , not consciously knowing why she did so , but driven by a need to get away from this man and the harshness of his condemnation , which should n't matter to her , because he did n't matter , but which nevertheless called up a churning confusion of resentment and frustration , as well as a new , unnerving hurt . |
| 10 | Relations with western Europe thus took on a high profile and Finland was among the EFTA countries seeking to negotiate with the European Communities ( EC ) a single European Economic Area [ see pp. 38307 ; 38353 ; 38 ] . |
| 11 | The whole net of relationships between community and subculture , class and centralizing monopoly capitalism thus took on a different shape . |
| 12 | The voltage on the power panel which the Object Management Group has planned for its Object World expo later this month just went up a few notches : Lotus ' John Landry could n't make it so they got Sun 's Bill Joy as a substitute . |
| 13 | This proved too much for Daniel Wilkinson , who nevertheless put up a sparkling display of shots and services . |
| 14 | Instead , I just lit up a straight fag and shared it with her , Bogart style . |
| 15 | She just sat over a leisurely breakfast and planned her day , and never looked back after that . |
| 16 | Instead , kids compare the stats on dogs like Scion , whose total seizure value to date is over $91 million , or Sinbad , who once turned over a camper van on the Mexican border and sniffed out 400 pounds of cocaine . |
| 17 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |
| 18 | You would think that these rabbits would have no chance against the combined land and air assaults of ferrets and hawk , but they were incredibly fast and usually disappeared down a safe hole before our Harris 's could get hold of them , even though the Harris 's hawk moves like lightning . |
| 19 | But after the convention , he launched his campaign with a spirited bus trip from New York to the Midwest and quickly ran up a daunting lead in the polls and held it until the campaign 's end . |
| 20 | A WINE bar , at the Anglesey end of Thomas Telford 's historic Menai Suspension Bridge , yesterday picked up a prestigious award . |
| 21 | POLICE yesterday picked up a discarded safe which was stolen from Darlington Health Authority 's offices . |
| 22 | In the programme , called Raiders of the Rainforest , Friends of the Earth alleges that MPL a subsidiary of Babcock Electrical Projects Ltd of Gloucester which is in turn controlled by FKI plc illegally siphoned off a significant proportion of this loan . |
| 23 | But they also tried out a few Western favourites such as a meal at McDonalds , a fish and chip supper , and a performance of Cats . |
| 24 | McMahon was involved in the build-up to three of the four goals and also came out a clear winner in what was , at times , a bad-tempered midfield confrontation with Batty and McAllister . |
| 25 | The fenestral discovery , incidentally , also filled in a missing link to provide a 300 million year sequence of fossils showing a smooth evolution from reptiles to mammals . |
| 26 | He also handed over a magnificent library which is now the Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie . |
| 27 | The Committee also handed out a four-week suspension to Bruce Dowling , the jump jockey , for forging a doctor 's signature . |
| 28 | The company also brought out a finished dual-standard machine , the Nutek Duet , which includes both 33MHz 80486 and 33MHz 68030 processors to run both its emulation of Macintosh System , and MS-DOS and Windows ; no price was given for it . |
| 29 | The friends also took out a half-page advertisement in the programme to wish Andy good luck and were able to pick the man of the match . |
| 30 | It also sorted out a personalised shirt . |