Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 2 | The play got as far as Wimbledon and then seemed to die . |
| 3 | This arose from discontent voiced both outside and within the Survey . |
| 4 | As a result , his skin glowed more healthily and his halo of hair gleamed like the outer circle of the sun . |
| 5 | A gift or donation is , at its best , a payment made voluntarily so that a service may be given to others . |
| 6 | The broad native roads made as straight as possible for their mark , like the roads of the Romans , seem to pick out preferentially the highest and steepest hills , which they ascend perpendicularly and without compromise . |
| 7 | So much so that Jan got quite giggly and started swapping bargain stories with him , and I was left with Darren . |
| 8 | Throughout the 60s we watched incredulously as the HVS category bulged evermore lopsidedly as these great pioneers stuffed it with their goodies — Wombat , Carnage , Macabre , Vagabond , Sundance Wall — today as touch a collection of E points as you 'll find anywhere . |
| 9 | Luce asked as casually as possible . |
| 10 | Patrick asked more lightly than he felt . |
| 11 | To Branson 's irritation , McLaren prevaricated as long as possible , affecting the disinterest of an ingénue being courted by a philanderer . |
| 12 | At home Perdita behaved more atrociously than ever before , storming round the house , refusing to get a job and screaming at Violet and Eddie when they returned bronzed from a month in LA with Hamish and Wendy . |
| 13 | Hardly able to see a hand in front of her , but refusing to be daunted , Luce moved as fast as she dared down an alley-way little more than a metre wide . |
| 14 | The first split occurred as early as 1948 when Yugoslavia was denounced by the Soviet Union and its allies for supposedly giving too much favour to peasants at the expense of the working class and for exercising party authority in an insufficiently decisive manner . |
| 15 | The fingers moved so fast that Dougal found it hard to follow what was happening . |
| 16 | Marslen-Wilson and Welsh ( 1978 ) found that fluent restorations occurred more frequently when the word was very predictable ( e.g. in Still he wanted to smoke a cikarette ) than when it was only moderately predictable ( e.g. , in It was his mizfortune that they were stationary ) . |
| 17 | The bombs stopped as suddenly as they started but the hollow screams of anti-aircraft shells continued without pause . |
| 18 | Typically , such researchers used both more and less in their questions . |
| 19 | Krupskaia admitted more truthfully that at least three-quarters of their inmates were the result of contemporary conditions , not of past sufferings . |
| 20 | The following year the Scots penetrated as far as Swaledale and Richmondshire , burning villages and seizing or killing resisters : on this occasion Holme Cultram abbey lost livestock valued at £500 . |
| 21 | Mrs Blakey asked as casually as she could , pushing a packet of wafer biscuits towards Kate . |
| 22 | Their lips met once more as slowly they savoured the pure essence of love . |
| 23 | From a purely technical point of view , this may not have been the standard performance , but in a place almost completely lacking in a tradition of classical dance , it is a delight to watch native talent channelled so joyously and with such a spirit of challenge to the myth that we exist only from the neck upwards . |
| 24 | I was buried alive , the pummelling stopped as suddenly as it had started , I heaved myself up and the earth and muck fell off me . |
| 25 | The eyes narrowed even more and became inverted and reddish ; the mouth thinned and slavered ; there was the white gleam of teeth , pointed and dripping with saliva … |
| 26 | Species and genetic change , fixation of atmospheric N 2 , and nitrogen deposition may have facilitated plant response to CO 2 in the past when concentrations rose more slowly or with a greater relaxation time between change than today , but data are lacking . |
| 27 | Marie moved forward so that he could see her better . |
| 28 | On Monday the figure rose once more when Frenchman Michel Bou passed away surrounded by the hi-tech machinery of Glasgow Southern General hospital 's neurological unit . |
| 29 | Our hypothesis was that hypoxaemia occurred more often than suspected clinically from the presence of cyanosis and that selected clinical signs , including respiratory rate , would be useful to predict its presence . |
| 30 | Their noses bumped gently together and their mouths tasted and explored and caressed hungrily . |