Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever used it did so rarely and left few traces . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ We are guilty of failing to provide for what is clearly a statutory service and I am truly appalled that we slipped up so badly and made such a serious mistake . |
| 3 | We felt that our arguments ‘ hold up ’ extremely well and deserved more recognition in the outcome since they answered at least two of the board 's main arguments against the reduction of differentials . |
| 4 | She turned away impatiently and opened another case . |
| 5 | I wished I 'd of stayed a bit longer now and had another look around |
| 6 | Dorothy had glared phlegmatically around and said that would teach the silly little wretch to wander off on his own ; it was Helen who had rushed to and fro and eventually found Edward , white with shock , cowering beside one of the tills . |
| 7 | He waved her to sit back more comfortably and took another of the gilt-and-velvet chairs , dragging it closer to hers . |
| 8 | Very well done — you 've examined both books most carefully & made some excellent links between them . |
| 9 | Nor could it be said that the British welfare system identified , or even defined , let alone assisted , the genuinely needy groups as effectively as did some systems prevailing elsewhere . |
| 10 | This system was used before the advent of on-line catalogues to ensure that at least one copy of a book remained in a library system , which was often county-wide and contained many branches . |
| 11 | There is nothing implausible in the argument that peasants , especially better-off peasants , managed their holdings , and their familial strategies , as adroitly as did some people higher up the social scale . |
| 12 | They battled tremendously well and earned more than their fair share of chances . |
| 13 | I 'd got a stripe pretty quickly but lacked another qualification for the duties the colonel , doubtless a frustrated journalist himself , had mapped out for me . |
| 14 | Wilson nodded and dried her tears yet again and made some effort to smile . |
| 15 | But at the last moment he changed his mind , and instead leaned forward again and took another cigarette out of the box on the table . |
| 16 | The work progressed well until it was discovered that the original iron braces inserted into the stonework by Scott had rusted very badly and expanded several inches , forcing the stonework upwards . |
| 17 | She had n't got this far nor worked this hard just to give up at the thought of some sort of opposition . |
| 18 | Leeds were naive in defence , provided no cover , and could have conceded a few more ( for the record though , Fairclough played very well and made some very timely interceptions ) . |
| 19 | Erm I thought you summarized the needs very well and got that over . |
| 20 | The deification of the Emperors , introduced by Augustus , was not taken too seriously and signified little more than in later ages was implied by the adjective ‘ Holy ’ in the title ‘ Holy Roman Emperor ’ . |