Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | By the time he was twenty Rasputin had married a local girl and before long had sired four children . |
| 32 | Both Corps had to be pulled out of the line , exhausted , on March 12th ; by which time the XVIIIth alone had lost 10,309 men and 295 officers . |
| 33 | We looked , and though we never said so , we believed that we alone had seen these things , that they had never been seen before . |
| 34 | The trip home must have been hazardous for Mars alone had suffered 72 hits , leaving 29 of her complement dead and 85 wounded , and she now had three feet [ 0.9 m ] of water in her hold . |
| 35 | ‘ When your mother came to live here and asked me to advise her , ’ he said uneasily , ‘ I naturally wanted to know some background . |
| 36 | In the first icy transatlantic blast , he pointedly refused to meet Premier John Major , who visits Washington later this month . |
| 37 | Published works of the 1950s , 1960s and 1970s all tended to follow this approach , and while there were occasional signs of shifts in direction , these were mere rustlings in the undergrowth compared with the revolution taking place elsewhere in British archaeology . |
| 38 | They were both amazed to find that because of the war scare young men who had been quite content to go out with them on their terms suddenly wanted to start serious courting . |
| 39 | they thought he only wanted to see two people . |
| 40 | T'Home does n't run to one , and t'daughter only wanted to get all t'kids back to Sunderland . " |
| 41 | He gained a reputation as the Buster Keaton of the cricket world , a man who rarely seemed to have any expression on his face and who was not one for the excited cavortings that greet the fall of a wicket ; yet behind the mask a good deal of thought was given to his bowling , and he was liked and respected by his fellow players . |
| 42 | The priest whom she eventually accosted took one look at her , an ill-proportioned , arrogant child with cheap clips in her gaudy hair , and started grilling her for an address . |
| 43 | How does the bird manage to identify part of the scene as a fish , or as food , in the first place , and how is it thereupon led to take appropriate action ( that is , how does it know that it should dive , irrespective of how steep the dive should be ) ? |
| 44 | It would have been sensible to consult my book of British butterflies before I started for I soon realised using authentic colours greatly improves the overall impression ; if you can , I would suggest you refer to a book also . |
| 45 | I just stopped to say good day to these two young things ! ’ |
| 46 | Nithard already seemed to sense that bond . |
| 47 | The challenge to the forces of tradition grew stronger , but it no longer seemed to imply social upheaval . |
| 48 | This effect gathered force as it was incorporated into political strategy , picked up by other media , entered into gossip , and thus came to overshadow immediate reality as it might have been recorded by an observer on the scene . |
| 49 | The phenomenal rise in venereal diseases and the performance of abortions ‘ for social reasons ’ were two of the unintended consequences of sexual hedonism which nevertheless seemed to have little effect on sexual behaviour . |
| 50 | But I soon learnt to get those cows out without messing up my nice clean cow shed , what we used to do , because wanting to get the first one out very quietly , I used to put my hand on the tail , press the tail to the backside and push her out ! |
| 51 | I just happened to see these selection of pots no I think there these fancy ones more |
| 52 | Apparently during the First World War some professor erm was using a bunsen burner and he burned himself quite badly and by him he just happ he just happened to have some lavender oil essential and for the nearest thing he put his hand in there and apparently it was supposed to have calmed it down and it healed very quickly . |
| 53 | Mechanisms already existed to oversee ethical questions . |
| 54 | He thus arranged to have each Dalek fitted with a waistband of vertical metal slats to suggest some form of solar ray receiving system . |
| 55 | They found the babies who were left for longer began to make crawling movements towards the breast after 20 minutes , and after 50 minutes virtually all had suckled correctly at the breast — and were more likely to breastfeed successfully as a result afterwards . |
| 56 | So impressive was the damage , and the mess , that willing Goblins soon began to take this form of warfare quite seriously . |
| 57 | Brenda soon began to have lovely rides on her bike . |
| 58 | Thanks to the help of Edna and Bert , Harriet soon began to establish some kind of order and routine at Four Winds . |
| 59 | She found him nice and easy to talk to , and they soon started seeing each other regularly . |
| 60 | Far too many of them , however , soon started to produce technical problems of one kind or another which almost immediately swamped the tiny number of experts in organic materials who were available at the Royal Aircraft Establishment . |