Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can be raised or lowered as well as moved horizontally from controls on the platform . |
| 2 | Few people in the West knew or cared very much if they did . |
| 3 | ‘ We do n't know that anyone was killed or injured near there so there should n't be anyone haunting it . ’ |
| 4 | Nothing is more frustrating than designing a pattern and taking hours to get it right only to find that , when it is knitted up on the machine , the whole thing is either squashed almost flat , or stretched lengthways so as to be almost unrecognisable as the original design , which can happen on some design systems . |
| 5 | We will ensure that the card is returned or re-issued as quickly as possible . |
| 6 | It happened when I was forced on to a very low fat diet for health reasons ( I had a gall bladder that grumbled very painfully when I ate fatty food ) . |
| 7 | In fact , Labov 's propensity to set out patterns in his data in a highly visual way is quite in the spirit of exploratory statistics ; but the data are not presented as comprehensively nor analysed as thoroughly as they would be using Tukey 's principles . |
| 8 | It looked fragile , held together by struts that seemed no longer than bits of wire . |
| 9 | That one you 've got there — Cotton Town — that came out just before I got called up . |
| 10 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 11 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |
| 12 | He just simply moved his body in ways that communicated more effectively than words . |
| 13 | Our mothers are cousins , and there was something that happened way back when they were children — my mother saved David 's mother 's life , or something . |
| 14 | She looked even more head-mistressy than usual , a caricature , with a long black gown and a mortarboard that pressed down hard till it flattened the top of her head . |
| 15 | Now the squad that worked down there when anybody left there was nobody would take their place . |
| 16 | With a stab of pain that went far deeper than mere physical agony Merrill felt the electric charge of his touch surge through her . |
| 17 | Integrity , combined with wariness , pride , and the kind of stoic endurance that accompanied an understanding of suffering , a loss of innocence that went as deep as the soul . |
| 18 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 19 | We had trips in those days that took as long as three months which not many people would undertake now . |
| 20 | There was a perpetual hum from the ground below , and occasional harsher metallic bangs and scrapes , and judders of thick silvery snakes that sped along faster than cars and disappeared into black holes in the ground . |
| 21 | For a moment he held her closely in a silence that spoke more clearly than words , telling her that all the friction was over , all the pain … |
| 22 | The turmoil that emerged both immediately before and after Mayer 's departure epitomized , perhaps more than in any other of the major Hollywood studios , the convulsions of change that were sweeping through the film capital , eventually spawning an underground of new , raw and raucous talent of which Nicholson was to be part . |
| 23 | In summary , what we term the ‘ third generation ’ of swept wings , are those with the myriad gimmicks and fancy names among the hundreds of stunters that emerged so quickly when common availability of carbon tubes made the rigid frame possible . |
| 24 | It was in motion , a carousel of two-seater chairs that spun unbelievably fast whilst it bobbed up and down on its rollers . |
| 25 | The seller , if he is to receive cash or debt securities rather than shares , would want a price that reflected as fully as possible the value to the buyer of creating a monopoly ( and thus the lost chance for the seller to do it himself ) . |
| 26 | The wartime bombers did n't seem to care what went up ; by contrast the PIRA did and cared so deliberately as to set out selectively to destroy what is now an illusion — the sanctity of hospital in which , regardless of loyalty or background , so many thousands of victims of our vicious little civil war have received care since those nights in August 1969 . |
| 27 | The Community Land Scheme was complex , and became increasingly so as regulations , directions and circulars followed the passing of the two Acts . |
| 28 | He sounded agitated , and became more so when Gentle identified himself . |
| 29 | ‘ That is up to you , ’ said Fael-Inis , and without warning his eyes grew remote and fiery ; they became inward-looking , and slanted more strongly than before . |
| 30 | That vast tracts can be bought and sold as casually as a loaf of bread is immoral . |