Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most eventually got honorary Lifetime Achievement Awards — alias the ‘ Whoops , sorry , we forgot you ’ Oscars , or even ‘ Whoops , sorry , we did n't know you were still around ’ , as happened to Sophia Loren in January , thirty years after she won Best Actress for Two Women . |
| 2 | Particularly striking examples , as Simon Frith points out ( 1983a : 146–7 , 154 ) , are that some of the ‘ most creative uses of the recording studio have also been the most ‘ manipulative ’ in commercial terms ' he mentions Phil Spector , Giorgio Moroder 's disco hits and Jamaican reggae — while ‘ in the USA … the most open and imaginative audiences deejays and radio programmes work in disco , the most obviously commercialized musical genre ’ . |
| 3 | So acutely did some people feel menaced by the ‘ godless conspiracy ’ that in Brooklyn , when a sewer explosion blew out the manholes , they panicked and shouted ‘ The Russians ! ’ ; in Boston an antique exhibition barred Russian pieces from being exhibited ; in Bournemouth the conductor of the municipal symphony orchestra barred pieces by Shostakovitch from being played . |
| 4 | It was seldom worth tangling with wizards , they so rarely had any treasure worth speaking of . |
| 5 | However , all deaths and most of the considerable arterial damage occurred where pressures were uncontrolled , poorly controlled , or treatment was delayed until there was evidence of organ damage , largely because aggressive prescription of tolerable drugs only gradually became accepted practice in the late 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 6 | But Alex dismisses hippy tags as totally misguided , claiming he only ever enjoyed one Steve Hillage album — ‘ Rainbow Dome Music ’ — which he was spinning in a club when Hillage himself came over and made contact . |
| 7 | I thought that might look quite nice for madam , see my two only ever had cheap beds to start with anyway , I knew that I 'd get them better ones later on |
| 8 | With the current growth of interest in Briggs ' work , it is intriguing to note that Briggs only ever published one paper on Sanskrit which , at the time , was poorly received and thought to be a cul-de-sac or at best a side road . |
| 9 | Only later did occasional references appear on inner pages devoted to food collection there . |
| 10 | The former seeks to control the delivery of INSET to conform to financially favoured national curriculum priorities ( DES , 1986 ) and allows LEAs to decide less favourably resourced local priorities . |
| 11 | Just as some children in public care had experienced the break-up of their parents ' marriage , or other family changes , so also had many children not admitted into care . |
| 12 | In the same way that African opinion elsewhere found its voice in the press , so also did white settler opinion ‘ which was frequently in conflict with the colonial authority . |
| 13 | It only really tested computational ability . |
| 14 | It would be no use him arguing that he had nowhere to go because he so often found other places to spend nights . |
| 15 | Now 37 , Jeff Koons long ago made enough money from his art never to need to work again . |
| 16 | ( An annual outing to the seaside has long ago displaced this occasion . ) |
| 17 | He strode in purposefully then stopped three paces from the T'ang , clicking his heels together and bowing his head . |
| 18 | Her father had never bothered to find out , so how had this Frenchman succeeded ? |
| 19 | So why did that core dump on on |
| 20 | The sting of this question was to some extent drawn for Schleiermacher himself by the fact that he so closely identified immediate self-consciousness with God-consciousness as to believe that he had found a real and solid bridge between the two sides of the matter . |
| 21 | So too did many others , on both sides of the Pennines , not all of them obeying the mischievous hints of Captain Goldsborough , of course — since even he could not have been in so many places all at once — but intent on stirring up trouble nevertheless . |
| 22 | So too did religious books , with new books from our many friends at ‘ 121 ’ and good old ones from the libraries of several retired Ministers all contributing to this success . |
| 23 | The worsening crisis in Poland during 1980 and 1981 , and what was believed to be a Soviet role in the imposition of martial law in December 1981 , made matters worse ; so too did Cuban intervention in Angola , and US support for the Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua . |
| 24 | Not long afterwards came another request , this time in a slightly more orthodox fashion , for John Ward to paint the Princess . |
| 25 | So speedily did this reversal occur that A la Carte magazine , the glossy guide to fashionable guzzling , was neatly caught twixt correct positions in just one issue . |
| 26 | Baden-Powell was particularly fond of this extravagant , but nevertheless deeply felt historical posture , and he saw the shadow of Rome hanging over the huge crowds attending the football stadiums which he likened to the ‘ unmanly ’ attitude of the young Romans who loafed around the circus entertainments — ‘ they paid men to play their games for them , so that they could look on without the fag of playing , just as we are doing in football now ’ — as he charged into battle against this betrayal of the British traditions of ‘ fair play ’ and sportsmanship : |
| 27 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
| 28 | He just quietly died one day — about three years ago . |
| 29 | But I mean , when I was living with her we just had all these arguments cos , you know , I just never got any peace ! |
| 30 | Art offers ‘ substitutive satisfactions for the oldest and still most deeply felt cultural renunciations , and for that reason it serves as nothing else does to reconcile a man to the sacrifices he has made on behalf of civilization ’ . |