Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next morning , after I had drunk some coffee and sat for an hour with the first suggestions of boredom stirring inside me , the Feldwebel who had enjoyed the ride in the Mercedes so much came to the door . |
| 2 | And I only ever went to the first reunion after graduation . ’ |
| 3 | The transformations effected by the second Vatican Council of 1962–5 in liturgy , sacrament , scripture , and so on led to the accelerated decline of traditional rituals such as wakes and pilgrimages to local shrines . |
| 4 | The patient described here took an overdose not long after her marriage somewhat unexpectedly came to an end . |
| 5 | Dressed in a white shirt and trousers , and with his white hair and a face apparently never submitted to the sunshine , he looked as though he had been rolled in flour preparatory to cooking . |
| 6 | Comdisco got out of the risk arbitrage business and shortly thereafter went to the somewhat less receptive credit markets for $100m to boost its liquidity . |
| 7 | They passed the mouth of Liddesdale , and soon after came to the Kirkandrews ford . |
| 8 | Tom Cannon rode his first winner in 1860 , and shortly afterwards came to the attention of the trainer , John Day of Danebury , whose daughter he later married . |
| 9 | Given that we rarely ever got to the bye-line , Sunderland never looked really troubled by this . |
| 10 | ‘ We hardly ever went to the mainland . |
| 11 | He hardly ever came to the village any more . |
| 12 | Following the appointment of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector in 1653 , religious considerations once more came to the fore , although whether they ever took precedence over the more secular impulses behind foreign policy is doubtful . |
| 13 | Brownie helper Barbara once more came to the rescue and during the next week brought her daughter 's cassette tape-recorder to my home where , in spite of my nerves and her dim knowledge of recording , we managed to get the music for a small sequence on tape . |
| 14 | The first mention of belted Scottish cattle is dated to about 1790 but there is a theory that it received its belt originally from imported Dutch Lakenvelder cattle in the seventeenth century , a breed which possibly also contributed to the now extinct Sheeted Somerset . |
| 15 | Four years and a name change later she once again took to the road as a solo performer . |
| 16 | He once again cycled to the Carter 's farm . |
| 17 | Almost nine months later , we found an engine without the accessories , and Continental Airlines once again came to the rescue , flying Tim , our mechanic Chuck Blanchard and me out to see if we could get the Tri-Pacer flying again . |
| 18 | Andre once again came to the rescue of his country , the USA , in the deciding rubber of the quarter-final of the 1992 Davis Cup . |
| 19 | She put on her Wellington boots and once again spoke to the privet bird . |
| 20 | They evidently worked on the assumption that no one at the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society ever actually listened to the records . |
| 21 | Any unmixed foil unsold by the buyers clearly still belonged to the Dutch sellers by virtue of the first part of clause 13 . |
| 22 | This French breed , which produces high-fat milk , was probably not distinguished from other breeds of northwest France until the nineteenth century , including the Contentin type ( later absorbed by the Normandy breed ) , which probably also came to the islands , and the now-extinct brindled Isigny draught breed of Normandy , which was also a famous butter-maker but much larger than the Léon and with horns which curved forward and inward rather than outward and backward . |
| 23 | His relationship with the motor industry probably really came to the attention of the public in 1967 when he entered the world of rally driving in a self-prepared Mini Cooper S. The next year , in a Ford Escort 1600 , he took his first Scottish Championship title . |
| 24 | Professor Dowd , as he liked to be called — and who cut his hair and trimmed his beard to look just like President Lincoln — probably never travelled to the Pacific , nor to very many other places outside America ; but he had an abiding interest in his country 's enormous and burgeoning railway system , and from that fascination grew a scheme which changed the world — and particularly the Pacific — for ever . |
| 25 | Mr Rooker said money from the fund ‘ simply never got to the people who needed it because it was n't publicised enough and because the regimental administrators were inefficient . |
| 26 | The young man stroked his chin , and then apparently came to a decision . |
| 27 | She rose , ran across the room , unlocked the door , and then swiftly retreated to the bed again — not to lie on it , but to sit on it , huddled against the end , one shoulder against the iron railings of its head , hands primly in her lap , feet side by side , her whole posture defensive . |
| 28 | And that 's what happened , we did all go our separate ways , and quite naturally came to no good ’ . |
| 29 | Fiery pace bowler Hughes seems certain to escape punishment after it appeared he spat at Greatbatch and then obscenely gestured to the crowd when the Kiwi batsman was dismissed . |
| 30 | Small areas of rot can be cut out and filled with two-part epoxy resin , which should give a strong permanent bond , with the advantage that several layers can be applied in just a few hours , and then easily sanded to a fine finish . |