Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only road was a quarter of a mile away up a track , leading down to the campsite itself , so that made the immediate area pretty safe . |
| 2 | While they had shared championship success when they had first met , after a split of four years it was their second era together that brought the ultimate honour for them both — the 1987 Open Championship title . |
| 3 | Blufton seemed trustworthy enough and had no direct relationship with Nicola . |
| 4 | Two major " betrayals " in five years were more than enough and created the permanent attitude of mistrust towards leadership which characterized radicals in the labour movement from then onwards . |
| 5 | His work with The Miracles kept him in hits until 1972 , when he finally went solo and delivered the gorgeous Smokey , which might have promised more than it delivered but which ultimately — on ‘ Baby Come Close ’ , ‘ Just My Soul Responding ’ and the personal protest of ‘ Holly ’ — established him as the great single Romeo of modern soul . |
| 6 | The boy sat up suddenly and laughed a strange , low laugh . |
| 7 | I went inside and saw a beautiful work which the artist had done on the other side . |
| 8 | He went inside and did the same . |
| 9 | Ripley beat Paul Parker on the left , cut inside and hit a low cross to the near post . |
| 10 | ‘ Take care of yourself , kid , ’ Whitlock said softly then went inside and closed the sliding door behind him . |
| 11 | We gazed , open-mouthed at the stately triple towers and the flying buttresses , then went inside and found the famous Lincoln Imp in the Angel Choir , and J. bought me a small silver imp for my charm bracelet . |
| 12 | She heard a shuffling inside and gave a small sigh of relief . |
| 13 | Joseph leaned outwards and aimed a violent retaliatory blow at his brother 's midriff , but at that moment both rickshaws swerved apart and skidded to a halt . |
| 14 | Tensely , the airmen looked below and saw the crowded train reach the North Queensferry side in safety . |
| 15 | To return to the main point : we introduced surface dyslexia as the pattern of acquired dyslexia which would be expected if neurological damage had affected the lexical procedure for reading aloud and spared the non-lexical procedure . |
| 16 | He accused the Romanian authorities of behaving brutally and demanded the immediate release of Pastor Laszlo Tokes , the ethnic Hungarian clergyman whose harassment by the authorities |
| 17 | I wrote to say so and received a courteous reply from the producer , who said , ‘ I 'm interested in the DIY approach you suggest and in our next series perhaps we 'll look at this more closely . ’ |
| 18 | Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party . |
| 19 | On his way out he cocked a leg swiftly and directed a powerful jet against an immaculate trouser leg . |
| 20 | Some general practitioners have even banded together and threatened a wholesale withdrawal of funding unless the local hospital provides dermatological services in the community . |
| 21 | I tried not to watch as I fitted the frame together and balanced the unfinished top on it . |
| 22 | To get around this limitation Lotus Microsoft and Intel got together and invented a special type of memory — expanded memory or Lotus-Intel-Microsoft ( LIM ) memory . |
| 23 | His podgy , clean-nailed fingers locked together and formed a vaulted shrine over the few pages of notes that contained my Mother 's life . |
| 24 | McLeod called the rest of the team together and asked the entire squad if they had access to prescribed drugs . |
| 25 | If there were two designers they must have worked closely together and shared the same highly trained team of executants . |
| 26 | I said good-bye to Uncle John and Aunt Janie , gathered my few belongings together and bought a one-way CPR ticket to Vancouver . |
| 27 | The Princess gathered her things together and wrapped a tatty shawl over her sari and cardigan . |
| 28 | And a few miles away Antony heard the boughs of the sycamore tree sawing together and watched the sinister patterns moved by the wind across the frosted glass of the bathroom window . |
| 29 | The Youngs ' pair , split by the draw , nevertheless came together and raced the whole way side by side like twins . |
| 30 | Without further hesitation they gathered their sticks together and boarded the five Bristol Bombays , squeezing themselves into the fuselages among the piles of equipment that were to be dropped with them . |