Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Biddy switched Jazz to Midnight , and Jazz got round all right . |
2 | ‘ The bike skidded on past ahead of me and I followed it in to the side of the road . |
3 | The hours passed so pleasantly here . |
4 | Marslen-Wilson ( 1975 ) found that fluent restorations occurred far more often during the shadowing of normal prose than when the mispronounced word was semantically or syntactically incongruent with respect to the sentence containing it . |
5 | When , at last , she managed to speak , the words fluttered out so faintly that Melissa had to strain to catch them . |
6 | The interest in Britain 's retention of bases and the deployment of troops , ships and aircraft in the Persian Gulf , at Aden and Singapore , and in the Indian Ocean deepened as the United States became ever more deeply and uncomfortably involved in war in South-East Asia from the mid-1960s . |
7 | In previous years , school pupils have made up around 15% of the candidates — but last season , school entries made up just under 28% . |
8 | He sold it to Sir John Strangways , a member of the Illchester family , in 1641 ; four years later , however , the manor passed on yet again to another Illchester in part payment for fines imposed on poor Strangways for malignancy , a crime for which he was put in the Tower . |
9 | The wind got up even more for the back nine , but we looked as though we might go in at least sharing the lead . |
10 | The wind got up swiftly here and it was already quite strong tonight . |
11 | Heavy industry produced not so much the industrial region as such as the company town , in which the fate of men and women depended on the fortunes and goodwill of a single master , behind whom stood the force of law and state power , which regarded his authority as necessary and beneficial . |
12 | ‘ Mummy got off all right , did she ? ’ he asked her . |
13 | He and David Hemmings got on very well and got up to a lot of mischievous things . |
14 | It merely reflects the implementation of a programme laid down much earlier . |
15 | Marcus rather absently , as if all this belonged to the remote past , asked Pat how he was getting on , and Pat reported how much better he was feeling . |
16 | Jellicoe had sent Rear-Admiral Sir Horace Hood and his 3rd Battle-cruiser Squadron to aid Beatty but , because of the misreckonings of position , this force moved too far eastward . |
17 | A big avon , bulk shotted in only about three feet of racing water . |
18 | Hellenistic craftsmen concentrated much more intensively on exposing the surface of prominent white bands and carving one or more in relief using the intermediate darker zones to throw their images into stronger relief . |
19 | Later , when their work had become completely Cubist , Picasso and Braque devised a more elaborate and sophisticated method of dealing with solid forms but the means which they used to differentiate between the parts of planes or an object or figure and the devices they used to reconcile it to the picture plane were , it will be seen , not unlike those which Picasso used so boldly here . |
20 | On the contrary , there is much to suggest that , in this election , Labour moved too far away from its traditional base ; that its attempts at reassuring those outside its ‘ natural ’ core of supporters meant it did too little to mobilise support among those who would benefit from its policies . |
21 | The flat string of squares flickered slightly just sufficiently to show it was a projection , nothing real ; but although it was apparent the line of squares itself was merely an image , on its surface sat seemingly real and solid wooden chess pieces made from black and white wood , and set on that strange line like tiny isolated guard towers on a chequered frontier wall . |
22 | Propagated contractions were more often recorded in the proximal oesophagus ( p<0.05 ) , whereas non-propagated contractions occurred about twice as often in the distal as in the proximal oesophagus ( p<0.001 ) . |
23 | Callum came in just then , whistling to the music , apparently oblivious to the air of angry tension , the sparks that emanated dangerously between Luke and Robyn . |
24 | Anna 's reply came out as hardly more than a whisper . |
25 | He was soon helped by Madra and Isay , and the trio worked with a will in the growing twilight as the snow came down more thickly and visibility worsened . |
26 | When the document was sent out for consultation , teachers , advisers and inspectors came down almost unanimously on our side . |
27 | The link between urban form and transport was never clearer , but realizable solutions seemed as far away as ever . |
28 | Newcastle Juniors lost 1–0 at home to League leaders Leeds on Wedneday , but coach Colin Suggett said : ‘ The lads played ever so well and were unfortunate to lose . ’ |
29 | Passing close to , and parallel with , Sturgis ' southbound command , the Nez Perce band silently traversed the now unguarded Clark 's Fork Canyon , ‘ where rocks on either side came so near together that two horses abreast could hardly pass ’ . |
30 | Along Heygate Street last night there was n't a pedestrian in sight and cars drove through as fast as they could . |