Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of women working in other people 's homes , i.e. in domestic service , was a component of this and fell continuously throughout the century beginning in 1850 . |
| 2 | Friends have often remarked on this and wondered afresh at the wizardry of the Welsh . |
| 3 | David Jenkins , a brother of Richard and a police officer , undertook to secure this and did so with no difficulty . |
| 4 | Ralph Pottinger boarded her and she was brought clear and returned safely to Challenge . |
| 5 | The art nouveau artists who turned against the conventional gem-set ornaments of the 1890s and looked instead to nature for inspiration are represented by Lucien Gautrait . |
| 6 | It is non-magnetic and used industrially in electrical mechanism as well as for bearings . |
| 7 | Even though the Simonova was now technically under Navy direction , Rostov 's administrative duties remained light and consisted principally of approving the expenditure of insignificant items of equipment during platform servicing . |
| 8 | Quick as she was , Feargal was quicker and swerved swiftly to one side . |
| 9 | Gareth Morgan was forty-two years old and looked more like fifty-two . |
| 10 | The stillness , the sexual aura , that high-definition presence which is found in men and women heterosexual and homosexual and recognised equally by all : at its rawest and most baffling — 'star; quality ’ . |
| 11 | The trailing lead got snarled up in a bramble bush but , just before Gazzer reached him , the dog yanked it free and raced away through the dunes , to the thin strip of beach left uncovered by the tide . |
| 12 | The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed . |
| 13 | She twirled around the room but Mary was n't interested and returned upstairs with her friends to complete dressing . |
| 14 | She rose and plunged and rolled and staggered and behaved generally in a most frisky fashion . |
| 15 | They were very , very popular and went all over the world . |
| 16 | He — my maternal grandfather — made a stand against war , all war ; he was n't very popular and retired early from public life . |
| 17 | The chief monument in the country is the Cathedral of Pécs ( Fünfkirchen ) , rebuilt about 1150 and restored mainly in the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | We disposed of the big fish first , not even so without difficulty ; for while some , like Ceylon and Jamaica , were islands , which was a good enough demarcation for rough and ready purposes , others , like the Indians or Nigerians , were not so unmistakable and quarrelled violently over who they were . |
| 19 | After his death his " rock band " disappeared and was last seen , rumour says , broken and tumbled together in an old wash-house . |
| 20 | Many of these organizations were self-financing and depended heavily on donation , feminist patronage and solidarity from other better-resourced groups . |
| 21 | The needle crept steadily up to Mach .99 and hung there for several seconds . |
| 22 | It was beautiful and luxurious and designed both as status symbol and for ease of living for the emperor himself . |
| 23 | By now , other men with microphones were moving among the audience , and so many people were shouting to be heard that George could no longer identify individual speakers as words overleaped one another and blended together into a great cry of confused and frightened protest . |
| 24 | What the figure does not reveal is the shift in the balance that has occurred during the 1980s towards overseas securities , prompted initially by the relaxation of exchange controls in 1979 and encouraged subsequently by the strong performance of some overseas economies and stock-markets . |
| 25 | Miller moved into the flat in 1979 and remained there until the writ for possession in July 1989 , more than once offering to pay rent . |
| 26 | There were some cottage industries which came to take up part of the " space " left by factory spinning , such as straw-hat making and lace making , but they were more localised and tended even by the standards of hand spinning to be low-paid . |
| 27 | Alice , his sister , was born in 1695 and died apparently in 1708 . |
| 28 | Though shoved and pinched and taunted unmercifully by the spectators , the Bisus quietly drummed themselves into a glassy-eyed state , drew their kerises from their sarongs , and proceeded to whirl furiously about the room while trying to twist the blades into their own throats and stomachs . |
| 29 | He was arrested on 25 November 1991 and held overnight in a police cell in Urosevac . |
| 30 | The event has been brought forward a year from 1991 and moved also from France to West Germany . |