Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Trainer himself who deftly headed in a right wing free kick at the start of the second period , but Ballycastle came back to equalise through Woods with two minutes to go before Gorman 's winner settled an exciting tie . |
| 2 | died as , whatever and they went to his eldest brother he said he had to burn all because he only lived in a small flat , he and his wife and two children and they 'd got no room for them to so he had to burn them . |
| 3 | Without warning the grass suddenly exploded in a great shower and a livid white head emerged . |
| 4 | A minute or so earlier she might have burst out laughing again at what she considered was an ‘ over the top ’ compliment but — and she owned that seeing Ven Gajdusek was to blame — she suddenly felt in a laughing mood no longer . |
| 5 | She suddenly felt in a great hurry to escape , instinctively disliking this pretty , richly-dressed young American . |
| 6 | We obviously put in a few more details … |
| 7 | But she did not weep , only said in a low , harsh voice , ‘ Then you wo n't come back ? |
| 8 | However , the group should not be too large as this can be threatening , and people may not feel sufficiently relaxed in a large group to make a contribution . |
| 9 | Lord John did not ride his horse , but rather drove in a gleaming open cabriolet that he had brought from London . |
| 10 | The tower told him which way to taxi , and he finally stopped in a bright ring of lights inside a hangar whose doors closed the moment he shut down his engines . |
| 11 | She never looked back to see what was chasing her , just woke in a cramped sweat , breathless and in tears . |
| 12 | First established as a concept by the Catalan artist in 1984 when he announced that he would be donating 300 paintings and 3000 graphic works to the city of Barcelona , the Fundació was the subject of protracted negotiations with the local autonomous government and the Ministry of Culture in Madrid , which finally resulted in a handsome level of funding for building in which to house them . |
| 13 | If it just went in a straight line it would take fifteen minutes . |
| 14 | They finally halted in a rough copse of thorn that had lopsided boulders scattered about it and was sheltered from the wind by the long shoulder of a hill . |
| 15 | In 1801 most English people still lived in a rural environment ; only one person in every three lived in a town and most of those towns were small by modern standards . |
| 16 | The comrades Honecker , Zhivkov , and above all , Ceauşescu himself , still lived in a mental world shaped by both Stalin 's dreams and his cynical realism . |
| 17 | A TORY council yesterday failed in a High Court bid to halt a teachers ' boycott of school tests . |
| 18 | It was a full day later before Schmidt had been able to form a coherent sentence , though his words still came in a low , wracked whisper . |
| 19 | Stumps were uprooted , an impromptu lap of honour instigated by Desmond Haynes , who quickly collapsed in a tearful heap , and Richardson snatched an Antiguan flag in scenes of wild abandon . |
| 20 | The road signs ( France is the only country I know where drivers are warned about beetroot on the road : BETTERAVES , I once saw in a red warning triangle , with a picture of a car slipping out of control ) . |
| 21 | Any visit to the doctor always resulted in a prescribed medication that was ineffective . |
| 22 | But the circumstances of its failure , and the manoeuvrings of politicians and judges which accompanied that failure , combined to produce a calamity which went far beyond the collapse of a doomed policy , for the failure directly resulted in a deep distrust of the judicial system . |
| 23 | On March 7 hundreds of government employees had reportedly rioted in Salta , 1,600 km north-west of Buenos Aires , in protest at Menem 's plans to cut state spending , and thousands more participated in a nationwide strike on March 21 , an estimated 40,000 demonstrating in Buenos Aires for an end to privatization and for wage increases to compensate for an estimated 40 per cent rise in prices in the first two weeks of the month . |
| 24 | She hardly ever spoke in a normal voice . |
| 25 | As for Eliot himself , he seemed to make himself absolutely at home , as he usually did in a small gathering , and he swung his leg over the arm of the comfortable chair , where it reposed throughout the visit . |
| 26 | ACTOR Kenneth Branagh — adored by millions of women — once appeared in a lonely hearts ad . |
| 27 | He always spoke in a peculiar snuffling manner . |
| 28 | The late afternoon sun was beginning to lose its heat , but under its fading glare the waving grass of the plain still shimmered in a gray-green haze and Joseph 's unpractised eye could detect no movement . |
| 29 | Several of the men always stayed in a small hotel in Cairo in Suleiman Pasha Street run by a character they called the ‘ Honest Greek ’ . |
| 30 | I set her down on her usual perch and slowly walked in a straight line to the far perch , some ninety feet away . |