Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their success in gripping the public mind can be compared today only to the most avidly watched television programmes . |
| 2 | At half-back Richard Hill is the man with the reputation against the less highly rated Rob Glenister . |
| 3 | Johnny 's double standards , and his entrenched belief in the superiority of the male , had led her into an angry tirade of defence designed only to prove that she was exactly the cheap little tart that he so obviously thought her.Their relationship seemed to be increasingly an exercise in one-upmanship : my time 's better than yours ; so there ! |
| 4 | For so long dedicated Microsoft Windows users had very few decent database packages to choose from . |
| 5 | This must be the watchword of the Western democracies who have so painfully and yet so necessarily dismantled Saddam Hussein 's war machine , at such a cost in lives and scarce resources . |
| 6 | And the NZRFU councillors who so quickly criticised South Africa must hope that none of the leading New Zealand players show positive on drug-testing — if and when that is introduced as thoroughly as New Zealand require from South Africa . |
| 7 | Only later did Oliver Michaels come back with the sobering news that the hotel was strangely full of policemen , that there was no breakfast to be had save for coffee and muffins , without a trek to the Albion Hotel , and moreover there was thought to be something odd about Sir Thomas 's death which no one would specify . |
| 8 | Only much later did riot police intervene to disperse the protesters . |
| 9 | She shrugged her shoulders , popped it back in , won the fight as well as the following three contests to take the title — and only then told Dr Ken Kingsbury , the English team doctor , of her injury . |
| 10 | Only then did Moma Parsheen say to Jaq , ‘ I sent the message anyway . ’ |
| 11 | Only then did party members begin to identify with one or other wing — and it was a minority of non-party workers who could differentiate at all between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks . |
| 12 | He made it at 9.30pm yet heard Mr Gilbey tell Diana he was about to meet friends for dinner . |
| 13 | Clearly the brute of a man had forgotten all about the interview — so too had Milada Pankracova , or she would have reminded him . |
| 14 | So too did Dr Johnson and James Boswell before going on their famous journey to the Western Isles . |
| 15 | So too did de Gaulle 's early decision to take the Rassemblement into the electoral arena . |
| 16 | So too did John Nields and Arthur Liman , the two star congressional lawyers . |
| 17 | At 6 o'clock on the evening of 15 February 1990 , police officers went to the home of Bridget Coffey as the result of a communication from her and shortly thereafter arrested Mr. Bell in the vicinity of Miss Coffey 's house . |
| 18 | Soon after came David Cork , an inventive inside-forward once with Arsenal and Huddersfield , and York 's Kevan Smith , who two years earlier had played with Coventry . |
| 19 | In 1964 , Lord Gardiner , who shortly afterwards became Lord Chancellor himself , said that since 1951 ‘ one or two ’ Lord Chancellors ( there had been only three ) ‘ felt that the standard of members of the bar going into the House of Commons has fallen noticeably since the war , and if you want the right men in the House of Commons then you must reward the man who votes the right way with a judgeship ’ . |
| 20 | As well as the new DB2/6000 relational database for the RS/6000 described on Monday ( CI No 2,128 ) , IBM Corp yesterday duly announced DB2 Version 3 for the mainframe — but the thing will only go into customer testing under the Quality Partnership Programme in June , and availability and ordering information will not be given until that process is complete . |
| 21 | The charcuterie , with seasonal variations , includes about two dozen different Italian salamis and sausages , Parma ham and the more delicately flavoured San Daniele . |
| 22 | AMBITIOUS Salford yesterday finally tempted Orrell rugby union star Gary Tyrer to sign a three-year deal to switch codes . |
| 23 | FLASHBACK Mirror Sport yesterday exclusively revealed Nigel Mansell 's Indy racing plans |
| 24 | More recently formed Labrador Sea Water , with even lower temperature and salinity , should cool and freshen the North Atlantic still further as it circulates around the ocean in the coming decade . |
| 25 | The much loved and still sorely missed David Watson caught this straight from the Holy Spirit when he wrote in his last news letter : |
| 26 | In a move that particularly irked Hartlepool supporters , Little also bought Andy Toman . |
| 27 | The Heavenly EP is , according to you , ‘ A charidee EP of rubber soul classics , namely Right Said Fred songs , all proceeds to the ace Terrence Higgins Trust ’ . |
| 28 | He also greatly enjoyed Kenneth Horne , although his memory of the show in his autobiography was somewhat limited . |
| 29 | I also guiltily recollected Lady Carey 's insidious remarks : somehow or other Benjamin was always close to the murdered person . |
| 30 | We nearly always had milk pudding , rice pudding , semolina or some other stodge . |