Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fume cupboards for those working with gases and solvents only slowly came into laboratories . |
| 2 | He was , it seems , interested in the prolongation of life ; but the picture of the sheer gloom of human existence expressed in " De Contemptu " — which apparently so appealed to contemporaries — does little to enthral the modern reader . |
| 3 | He ignites the imagination , nevertheless , with glancing observations of Skye ‘ … so much indented by inlets of the Sea , that there is no part of it removed from the water by more than six miles ’ . |
| 4 | Yet there are still quiet corners and delightful places to see on the Costa Blanca … and all so easily reached on drives and excursions for those who want to get away from it all . |
| 5 | She obviously thoroughly disapproved of holidays and spent all her time polishing the plastic . ’ |
| 6 | Controversy aside , the fact that Dykstra was called upon so often vouched for Rangers ' ascendancy but the Hateley/McCoist goal machine seemed to have developed a mechanical fault . |
| 7 | The blue van , driven by Latowa , pulled up outside a tall , ramshackle house , long ago turned into bedsitters . |
| 8 | The BEA thus increasingly looked for sites more distant from the load centres , locating them instead on the coast ( where cooling water supplies were cheap and plentiful ) or on the coalfields ( where coal would be the cheapest ) . |
| 9 | Golf , the most individual of sports , is never more demanding than when played in its team format and , when Sam Torrance holed the winning birdie putt at The Belfry in ‘ 85 , and very soon afterwards burst into tears , he began a sequence that would be rejected out of hand by any self-respecting editor of the Boys ’ Own Paper . |
| 10 | It still only failed by inches and you can argue , that , finishing farther in front of Gyr and Blakeney than at Epsom and Ascot , Nijinsky ran to form . |
| 11 | Sports centres with excellent pitches and pools have been built but they have either been under used or more often patronized by groups who already had a high participation ratio , especially adult male car-owners . |
| 12 | So saying , she once again burst into tears and , crossing rapidly to George , threw her arms around his neck and stretching up on her toes , began to kiss him with a fervour which shocked him . |
| 13 | The two actors reputedly almost came to blows and ended the film not talking to each other . |
| 14 | We then all got into taxis and we went off to the Coconut Grove at the top half of Regent Street where we spent until the small hours of the morning . |
| 15 | His eyes were still as still pools for a moment as he looked and then suddenly became like spikes . |
| 16 | l he vehicles entered the western end of this northern bay , and the coach body was lifted off its bogies and placed on moving carriers , the wheels removed from the bogies , the bogies then also placed on carriers parallel with its body and moved alongside it through the shop at the same pace , that of one vehicle every forty minutes . |
| 17 | few would deny that the CMHTs almost immediately ran into problems due to the squeeze on local authority budgets and found themselves scrabbling around for alternative resources ; |
| 18 | I tried to get a lift from every vehicle that passed , but Oliver only stuck out his thumb at cars he really wanted to ride in , and sometimes even scowled at drivers whose cars he disapproved of . |
| 19 | He was asked why he 'd later dumped lengths of pipe at nearby Slade Quarry and then twice lied to police about it . |
| 20 | Ken erm y you 've asked some questions , I 've actually seen the I M R O letter and can I say that there are two questions in the I M R O letter to Mr Maxwell and Bishopsgate , which quite categorically asked for accounts and also details of the ownership structure coming out of Liechtenstein . |
| 21 | Not surprisingly , in this particular group , a least half wrote on issues related to product versus customer service . |
| 22 | Some of Dowland 's ayres almost certainly came from masques ; the Ayres ( 1609 ) of Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger ( c. 1575–1628 ) , the completely Anglicized son of ‘ the elder ’ , include a number composed for Ben Jonson 's earlier masques and one , ‘ Come my Celia ’ , from his music to Jonson 's Volpone ; Thomas Campion ( 1567–1620 ) , better poet than composer , was much concerned in the writing and production of masques ; while Robert Jones and Philip Rosseter , masters of the lighter type of ayre , were also men of the theatre . |
| 23 | As he no longer wrote to relatives or old war comrades , he explained stiffly , ‘ I 'm expecting word from my daughter in London . |
| 24 | They no longer looked like men . |
| 25 | This response is either absent or very much attenuated in patients with supraconal lesions . |
| 26 | I s I , I never really played with Windows , I just installed it to do the job of running this one application and then left it alone . |
| 27 | It never really got to grips with the issues of childhood , innocence and learning about sexuality . |
| 28 | In the years that I have had to research my Bombing Years lectures I realise now that we never really got to grips with the German defences until the latter stages of the war . |
| 29 | The biggest shortcoming of the Dobry Report , however , was that it never really came to grips with the major weakness of the development control system : its general isolation from the remainder of the planning process . |
| 30 | My grandmother paid for it — she never really came to terms with Mum 's moving abroad , and I think that was her way of making sure I never lost the other half of my inheritance . ’ |