Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought you only just got back from you homeymoon … ’ |
| 2 | East of the Fosse in Townsend Close , the buildings apparently also went out of use , with their associated plots given over to burials , which again followed the earlier layouts and rarely contained any grave goods ; observation of roadworks between Townsend Close and Heave Acre revealed yet more similar burials . |
| 3 | ‘ And I do n't understand how the registration papers , which we so carefully prised out of the Department of Transport 's computer in Swansea or some other Godforsaken place , and your driving licence both have an address in Southwark . |
| 4 | As she lost the thread entirely , all thought of telling him the work she had done so far went out of her head . |
| 5 | According to Hyde , the ‘ purge ’ only really took off after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 when the two diplomats fled to the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | ‘ I was wondering , ’ Finnan went on , ‘ seeing your company so finely decked out for travelling , if you were by any chance headed the same way ? ’ |
| 7 | Not only had her real mother rejected her at birth and given her away , but worst of all , her adoptive father whom she had loved so much now turned out to be her real father , a cheat and a deceiver . |
| 8 | The expression of conditions of existence , so often insisted on by the illustrious Cuvier , is fully embraced by the principle of natural selection . |
| 9 | The dazzling inlay of precious stones was long ago picked out with daggers . |
| 10 | The concept of political freedom , which is now so frequently bandied around by the coiners of political slogans , was , so far as we know , first developed in Athens in the fourth century BC where at least two-thirds of the population had the status of chattel slaves . |
| 11 | Bernard brushed his hands together then walked back to the door . |
| 12 | She offered a black Balkan Sobranie for the light I offered and only then looked up from under the wide-brimmed black hat she wore . |
| 13 | But it struck me then how very wise he was to keep his sexy side so firmly battened down on duty . |
| 14 | You just automatically got up in the morning , jumped in your car , went to work , you were there for half six , sun shone , cup of tea , read the Sun , sit down , get on your lathe , have your break at ten o'clock , lunch time , have your meal and then you have a game of football outside in the car park or whatever , and you had a daily little routine . |
| 15 | ‘ I think we just about ran out of alleyway , Barry . |
| 16 | Exactly , yes and the young threatening the old which Michael just helpfully pointed out amongst his more er |
| 17 | Every time his plane touched down at Nice airport and he saw palm trees and tanned porters in white , short-sleeved shirts , Adam enjoyed afresh the glamour of a life where one stepped on to a plane in bleak winter weather and shortly afterwards stepped off in warm sunshine . |
| 18 | Wall Street yesterday finally woke up to what we have been saying since January — that IBM Corp sets its dividend for one quarter at a time , and that there is no guarantee that the level declared for fourth quarter 1992 will be maintained quarterly this year : market dealers in Europe say a rumour surfaced here yesterday morning that another cut may be coming . |
| 19 | The Civilization Society more deliberately went out for bipartisan support and one result was that the six Conservative MPs who belonged to only one antislavery body chose to give their support to it . |
| 20 | She hardly ever went out of the house or garden , and did not discuss her feelings with anyone , even Liddy . |
| 21 | Miranda hardly ever got up for breakfast at the weekends , but on Miles ' first morning she appeared punctually at half past eight . |
| 22 | Her father once more lay back in his chair , and there was a singularly triumphant smile on his face as he brought out of his pocket a small tape recorder . |
| 23 | Both gentlemen once more glanced round to where the old lady was still staring , but now speaking to Lady Danby , whom she had detained with a hand on her arm . |
| 24 | It was actually about an hour after moonrise and a good while before midnight when Hazel and Fiver once more came out of their burrow behind the brambles and slipped quietly along the bottom of the ditch . |
| 25 | The men once more jumped down from the wagon and found themselves ankle-deep in mud . |
| 26 | But there are a few who are questioning the state of play , and who agree with Ben Whitaker ( 1979 : 312 ) when he urged ‘ that police thinking would profit if it more often came out of its shell and concerned itself with wider questions about the role of the police and human relations ’ . |
| 27 | Not that it ever really came up to her expectations , but this year — spending it at the vicarage with Mark and Sophia and her mother — she had hoped for at least a glimpse of Rupert Stonebird . |
| 28 | GUNMEN wounded three Roman Catholic taxi drivers in the centre of Belfast yesterday then sped off in a car as police gave chase . |
| 29 | But , perhaps most importantly , there was an end in sight and soon my mother — who nursed him heroically for most of the year , and on whom by far the heaviest load had fallen and would fall — once again took over from me . |
| 30 | He tried to force his grin … he held his ground and the fear once again welled up inside me so that I was sick to my stomach . |