Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was selfish of me , I so badly wanted to put a live baby into Celia 's arms — ’ Her mouth quivered slightly and she turned away . |
| 2 | The idea of going to France and turning into reality something which for so long had seemed a dream was now a concrete possibility . |
| 3 | Thus we have witnessed recently the end of an era here , with the closure of the studio complex in Windmill Lane , which for so long had set the trends . |
| 4 | Apart from Brooke , an obscure little house , all that survived of the medieval foundations of Rutland was the hospital , or almshouse , at Oakham , which only had goods worth 40s. : clearly its income of 20 marks only just sufficed to maintain the twelve poor inmates : Warden Gunby was no Septimus Harding . |
| 5 | He never left our shores and he only once ventured to cross the border into Scotland . |
| 6 | Portia Forbes so far had shown no interest in establishing any . |
| 7 | Mr O'Connor said the campaign so far had taken a lot of time and effort , with mixed results . |
| 8 | Or could a third party claim that it had never indicated dissent and only now wished to exercise the right ? |
| 9 | Shocked is making plans to sail with her father , who long ago began building a boat , until marriage and fatherhood distracted him from finishing it . |
| 10 | Britain 's passage through the ‘ demographic transition ’ in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , associated with rising life expectancy and falling fertility ( Chapter 3 ) , long ago began to change the nation 's age ‘ pyramid ’ into a rectangular shape . |
| 11 | He did sound so very sure of himself — and , now that she came to look at it , the wallet she was handing over so meekly did have a distinctly masculine air … |
| 12 | The growth of the liturgical movement , the lay apostolate , biblical scholarship , the need for Catholics to participate in democratic politics at least in order to protect Catholic rights , the urgency of collaborating locally with non-Catholics in opposition to Nazism : all this and much else had produced a profoundly altered consciousness within the more wide-awake parts of the Church by the later years of Pius XII 's reign . |
| 13 | A PENSIONER who said she would die if her 84 dogs were taken away yesterday pledged to fight a two-year ban on keeping animals . |
| 14 | Millwall just about deserved to take the spoils for their stirring second-half fightback and their performance must have cheered those fans who were furious at the £1m sale of forward Chris Armstrong to Crystal Palace . |
| 15 | Sunderland again rose to the occasion against better opposition and just about deserved to get the points to ease their relegation worries considerably . |
| 16 | One end of W is rapidly but delicately electrically vibrated allowing the writing head to make equally rapid , if intermittent , contact with the paper . |
| 17 | They had to find those to visit by answering a cryptic clue and once inside had to answer a question . |
| 18 | After several months of comparative quiet , the Sagawa Kyubin scandal re-erupted in August and once more appeared to threaten the existence of the administration of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa . |
| 19 | Going home really did seem a possibility . |
| 20 | We shall look at a particular example and shall conclude that , when it comes to complexity and beauty of design , Paley hardly even began to state the case . |
| 21 | Against this pessimistic background , the Care in the Community optimism about the possibilities for long-stay patients to live more independently seemed to betoken a change of central thinking . |
| 22 | And , without television coverage to keep them honest , US newspaper and sports magazine editors once again chose to ignore the World Championship of one of the world 's most popular sports . |
| 23 | home bloody needed checking the lights ! |
| 24 | They also powerfully helped to shape the subsequent roles and responsibilities of the major providers during the period in the District . |
| 25 | He was unrecognizable at this distance , but the woman who followed him a moment later only had to take a couple of steps for Pascoe to know that this was Gwen Evans again . |
| 26 | Dean Acheson described Mossades as a " most conservative , rich , reactionary feudal-minded Persian , who also just happened to hate the British . " |
| 27 | He also always managed to see the good side of a person , and would defend them as he saw fit ( ie Rodolpho ) which shows a very christian type of behaviour . |
| 28 | First impressions lasting longest and all that , when 4AD 's Boston Seethe Party first toured the UK in its full label package glory , while the Pixies were the kind of nutters you 'd gladly go joyriding with , The Muses … well , the Muses were the kind of band you respected from afar and near really wanted to share a six-pack with underneath the baseball park grandstand . |
| 29 | Indeed , he probably even helped to draft the document ’ Britain 's New Deal in Europe ’ . |
| 30 | Thongsouk Saysangkhi also reportedly tried to establish a ‘ social democrat club ’ to promote the idea of multi-party democracy and , with other dissenters , wrote an article supporting such a political system . |