Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some got as far as Rhodesia and the high altitude was n't any good so then they had to go on to Cape Town . |
| 2 | look , look , I , I , I 've got to go because I 've got another meeting to go to this evening , erm , what , what I , er what we need to do is to get this laid out clearly as to what our projections ar are |
| 3 | It featured more than 100 works , some made as early as 1915 , and was introduced , in part , by an essay O'Keeffe wrote for the exhibition brochure Stieglitz had prepared . |
| 4 | This came about partly because of the executive 's inherent advantages , as outlined above , and partly because tradition and crisis seemed to point to the need for a strong executive . |
| 5 | It meant that the Test career of a man aged just 31 , who still had a great deal to offer his country , was almost over ; true , it would be terminated by his own decision to go to South Africa , but this came about only because of his disillusion with cricket 's establishment . |
| 6 | Whatever the theory , Paul VI 's pontificate acted out dramatically the tensions between primacy and collegiality — but this came about only because he took collegiality seriously . |
| 7 | Indeed , some went so far as to ‘ play dumb ’ when they were with male students because they knew that the men did n't like clever women . |
| 8 | With some exceptions , the gentry and clergy readily accepted the Restoration in 1660 ; few went as far as the Reverend Dr William Oughtred who , at the age of 86 , ‘ died of excess of joy when he heard of the restoration of the monarchy ’ . |
| 9 | But this went much further than healthy scepticism . |
| 10 | This took no longer than a couple of seconds to see and understand , a near-abstract image accompanied by a few words . |
| 11 | Table 22 of Appendix 1 shows that when people have recently bought a major item for cash rather than credit , half did so either because they never use credit or because they prefer not to if they can avoid it . |
| 12 | First , the curt instruction to make a mayonnaise ‘ a la main ’ , though this proved much easier than expected when Eric started us off with three egg yolks and a healthy dollop of strong French mustard ( tip of the year for this amateur chef ) before adding the first drop of oil . |
| 13 | In second place Frank Emmelmann had to be at his very best as Linford Christie charged home for the British team , pushed all the way by Bruno Marie-Rose and Stefano Tilli , but the East German held on well as Linford was given the fastest ‘ anchor ’ split of 9.1 . |
| 14 | That came as early as the 88th second when Fox kicked to the corner and centre Frank Bunce wrestled the ball from Ieuan Evans . |
| 15 | That came as early as the 88th second when Fox kicked to the corner and centre Frank Bunce wrestled the ball from Ieuan Evans . |
| 16 | ‘ Two workmen saw it , luckily , and we all three got there just as you went off , like . |
| 17 | ‘ And they were all three killed not long after they disappeared . ’ |
| 18 | These went down well as the fish course for our evening meal at Tobermory and formed a good foundation for the liquid refreshment at the Mishnish Hotel which followed later that evening . |
| 19 | For collectors and aviation enthusiasts the early autumn of 1992 produced no less than four major auctions with an accent on matters aeronautical . |
| 20 | All messed up again after I just cleaned you up ! |
| 21 | He was wrong there , having misjudged the mood of Londoners , because even those who were completely bombed out and had nothing except the clothes they stood up in , nearly all came back again when the bombing eased off and they could find a roof to cover them . |
| 22 | Dulles on 12 December 1957 went as far as to describe France as " a very weak partner indeed " and one which caused him a lot of anxiety . |
| 23 | The shift in the labour pattern significantly reduced the tensions between the European and non-European and largely unskilled Jewish elements in Israel which during the 1960s was becoming a serious social and political issue since the latter grew faster demographically than the former . |
| 24 | The failure of the programme of 1918 stemmed above all from the lack of real agreement at the time ; despite the negotiations , the coalition 's electoral manifesto and campaign of 1918 went little further than Lloyd George 's letter to Bonar Law . |
| 25 | Wills II possessed no less than 30 silver trowels , one for each occasion when he laid the foundation stone of a Nonconformist chapel . |
| 26 | They all sat up straight as Patrick walked among them . |
| 27 | As far as the conglomerate departments were concerned , I think those came about broadly as we intended . |
| 28 | The war that followed was a stalemate both sides lost enormous casualties and the Chinese lost far more than anyone else , but the United States wound up that war with forty thousand American dead and with the only er partial success of managing to ma maintain the status quo in South Korea . |
| 29 | Strengthened by the united front , the Chinese responded more vigorously than in any previous incident , moving troops to the area . |
| 30 | ‘ That took much longer than I would have believed . ’ |