Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know George and Steven got on well and George would have been delighted to have seen this happy day . |
| 2 | The McLaren girl did not answer right away and Mrs. Favor leaned towards the girl . |
| 3 | KEVIN KEEGAN 'S Geordie dream lived on yesterday as Newcastle won their ninth successive match and opened up a five-point lead at the top of the First Division . |
| 4 | Ironically , too , it could turn out that much less goes on physically when John sees Mary and tells Dick about it , than when John gives Mary a black eye that tells Dick of his blow . |
| 5 | The Saturday afternoon was drawing in now and Carrie looked out through the partly drawn curtains at the dark , rolling clouds . |
| 6 | Leonora , afraid he 'd been about to order her to bed , assented so rapturously that Penry eyed her in amusement as he crossed to the stairs . |
| 7 | The situation is saved : HAMLET , escorted , is marched in just as CLAUDIUS leaves . |
| 8 | And he says : ‘ I got in only because Ian was hurt , but I have to put sentiment aside and think of Kevin Campbell . ’ |
| 9 | It was a sign that Ceauşescu intended to go much further than Dej in rehabilitating the Romanian past and distancing the Communist regime from the original Soviet model , at least so far as public presentation went . |
| 10 | In the case of Penge , apart from one low and narrow railway bridge , there was no difficulty with narrow roads , since Penge had been developed much later than Croydon and its main roads were of ample width . |
| 11 | No problem arose so far as NHS general practitioners were concerned , except a very powerful dispute about the level of the compensation of junior doctors ; but with the consultants it was another story . |
| 12 | Effie , spared the final agonising pangs of the actual moments of birth , recovered so slowly that McAllister feared that she had overdone the chloroform . |
| 13 | It matters little now that Sunderland finished the season 18th in the Second Division . |
| 14 | They moved on again and Timothy Gedge went with them , swinging his carrier-bag . |
| 15 | The problem is that the invitation must have come rather late as Carolyn recalls : ‘ I walked in about six o'clock and Diana went : ‘ Quick , quick I 've got to meet Charles in twenty minutes . ’ |
| 16 | At the time I had to find somewhere quickly and Edouard agreed to it . |
| 17 | Besides , if Maidstone could predict so accurately when Elsie would appear then it would be a simple matter to find her again — perhaps at the same time tomorrow . |
| 18 | On July 27 , 100 deputies and senators from the Solidarity Centre Alliance had petitioned Jaruzelski to stand down so that Walesa could be named President in his place . |
| 19 | Mary Leapor has , of course , fared somewhat better than Elizabeth Hands . |
| 20 | The pod was now shuddering so violently that Defries 's voice was distorted . |
| 21 | The fingers moved so fast that Dougal found it hard to follow what was happening . |
| 22 | I say rightly so because Herbert Spencer 's theory of evolution was fundamentally different from Darwin 's , even though it 's often confused with it . |
| 23 | While Brunner 's interpretation of Calvin was weak at many points — as Barth took a somewhat mischievous delight in pointing out — his claim to stand more clearly than Barth in the line of Calvin was not without foundation . |
| 24 | Tranmere would have won more comfortably if Aldridge , the League 's leading scorer with 38 goals , had managed to convert a fortuitous penalty , awarded for a handling offence by Butters . |
| 25 | Wendy feels the failure to conceive more keenly than Mark . |
| 26 | Rohmer had hold of the filing cabinet with Jimmy now , and Cardiff and Barbara moved quickly aside as Duvall reached the landing again , looking vacantly at the wrestling match with the cabinet . |
| 27 | Juliet had noticed how David had looked up sharply while Miss Rose was talking . |
| 28 | Staff were mopping up today as Mr Alton held his usual surgery . |
| 29 | Other Coalition Liberals were disliked as warmly as Lloyd George , more for their present policies than for their past . |
| 30 | Despite the Geneva conference requirement that heavy weapons in the area be placed under UN supervision from Sept. 12 [ see above ] , renewed artillery attacks were reported as early as Sept. 14 in Sarajevo ( which was suffering severe water and electricity shortages as supply lines were interrupted ) . |