Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The English philosopher G. E. Moore returned to the problem in a famous paper , A Defence of Common Sense which , in its turn , forms a background for Wittgenstein 's effort to demystify the issue in Über Gewissheit which , along with the Philosophical Investigations and , of course , the Tractatus , are the only texts he ever actually prepared for publication . |
| 32 | The side door to the house swung in when he touched it probably only locked at night . |
| 33 | After a welcome from Malcolm Atkinson , Corporate Director , Corporate Banking , Birmingham , the Conference began with a review of the Division 's results from Ken Duncombe , Director , Corporate Banking , who later also spoke on career structures . |
| 34 | After a few years in atomic energy research he then discovered his vocation as teacher and enthusiast as a lecturer in chemistry at Birkenhead Technical College , where he also voluntarily taught about theatre , literature and music in a humanities section . |
| 35 | So far much hampered by lack of money and staff about 1.5 million catalogue entries have been completed and 2,665,000 photographs produced . |
| 36 | With the fire behind her , he could see the shadowy curve of her breasts through the thin material , and its ragged hem now only reached to mid-thigh . |
| 37 | I think it it it 's been suggested that er in s in some way that the employment aspect of the new settlement w would in some way prejudice erm regional objectors in in terms of Leeds regardment and I really just wanted to flag up that that I ca n't accept that , given the scale of development that that 's proposed . |
| 38 | No it did though , it really really smelt of cider . |
| 39 | Our meals now regularly consisted of hummus , salad , chips and often meat , chicken or fried steak ( which George called ‘ buffteak ’ which was closer to the mark — and particularly apt when we were trying to cut it with the inevitable plastic knife ) , and glasses of Pepsi . |
| 40 | Clad in an old black leotard and leggings , now fairly well daubed with paint , and with her mane of hair hidden beneath a scarlet bandana , she did n't exactly look like a decorator , she realised with a giggle as she caught sight of her own reflection in the hall mirror on the way to the kitchen , but she 'd discovered at an early stage of the game just how much bending , stretching and crouching was involved and so had decided she might as well be comfortable while she did it . |
| 41 | The smell of growth and greenness was already in the air , elusive but constant , like the secret rippling of water , the whispering water of February , now almost hushed into silence . |
| 42 | She rarely even stopped for tea . |
| 43 | With hindsight , of course , it is now possible to question the glamorizing of drug-taking in such films as Easy Rider , Psych-Out and The Trip and others ; the in-built health warnings were seldom noticed and there was a certain drugs bandwagon rolling , anyway , largely created in the pop industry where drug usage was not only referred to , even poetically eulogized in song , but physically demonstrated by some of its more tragic exponents like Brian Jones , Jimi Hendrix and Janice Joplin , to name but three in a long line of fallen idols and heroes . |
| 44 | They even sometimes came in person . |
| 45 | Its army was invincible ; its palaces unparalleled ; the domes of its many mosques quite literally glittered with gold . |
| 46 | A year ago she 'd have been able to race him out to the ketch , maybe even climbed on deck and dived off … |
| 47 | She held her breath and opened the door a crack — then almost fainted with relief as the steward enquired politely , ‘ Will you be requiring tea or coffee in the morning ? ’ |
| 48 | The first of our ancestors to develop lungs almost certainly lived in water . |
| 49 | Briar Cottage no longer seemed like home ; like the cottage where eleven years earlier she had been born . |
| 50 | They no longer lived in awe of their Big Brothers in the unions . |
| 51 | Servants no longer slept within earshot of their masters , but were banished to garret or basement , and subsequently planted out in separate wings . |
| 52 | He no longer went to church , or saw any friends . |
| 53 | He no longer walked in guilt , but in hope . |
| 54 | Investment no longer flowed into manufacturing companies , which in turn cut back production . |
| 55 | It no longer occurred to Folly to doubt that Luke was telling the truth — and she knew that she was concentrating on his explanation simply as a shield against the other questions that hovered only a breath away . |
| 56 | And of course they 'd never They very rarely thought of washing clothes in tap water those days , it was all rainwater . |
| 57 | He very rarely spoke about business matters to Georgina and decided on reflection against recounting the day 's events except to say that he was leaving for Istanbul in the morning , and would be away for three or four days . |
| 58 | Encouraged by her lack of resistance , he very slowly began to inch down the waist band of her panties . |
| 59 | Nilsson , firmly entrenched in her seventies , leaves her native Sweden only rarely nowadays and she never much cared for recording studios . |
| 60 | An ornate building , brightly lit loomed in front of him . |