Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might throw light on his uncomplimentary nickname too , and on how , as the charter S 933 of 1014 reveals , " the attacks and plunderings of the evil Danes " gave him possession of a Dorset estate of the church of Sherborne , which he eventually sold for a great price in gold and silver to a friend of the monks , who returned it to them . |
| 2 | However , a series of related allegations eventually led to a High Court libel action involving Docherty and two of Manchester United 's most prominent players , Denis Law and Willie Morgan , who perhaps predictably were both Scots . |
| 3 | It was Trainer himself who deftly headed in a right wing free kick at the start of the second period , but Ballycastle came back to equalise through Woods with two minutes to go before Gorman 's winner settled an exciting tie . |
| 4 | More recently , in a series entitled , ‘ Scenes from the intimate life of CMA ’ she uses six small-scale canvasses , each focussing on a film still , randomly appropriated from a narrative sequence . |
| 5 | They sensibly asked for a new kettle but were told that they could not have one because cuts meant that no new equipment or furniture of any kind was available . |
| 6 | When I first thought of that I suddenly got in an absolute panic — nothing to do with Darwin , but , you know never mind — and I thought what about those erm , preying mantises and things , which who have adopted their front legs for sort of seizing prey like that they 've even got four legs to walk on — what do the poor things do ? |
| 7 | died as , whatever and they went to his eldest brother he said he had to burn all because he only lived in a small flat , he and his wife and two children and they 'd got no room for them to so he had to burn them . |
| 8 | He was also charged with forcing the king to bestow the earldom of March upon him in the Salisbury parliament of 1328 and then leading an armed band against the Earl of Lancaster , with procuring the death of the Earl of Rent , fomenting discord between Edward II and Isabella , and other offences which together amounted to a comprehensive indictment of his rule since 1326 , The earls and barons , ‘ the peers of the realm ’ , were asked to give their judgement on these charges and they declared that they were notorious and manifest to all . |
| 9 | While they were being pinned back by the Old Course , one man was able to deliver the coup-de-grâce to St Andrews with a birdie finish , gently cajoled by an American renowned for catching golf balls in a baseball glove . |
| 10 | It suddenly ground to a skidding halt and they were all thrown forward . |
| 11 | Tones can be easily built up and blended , rubbed hard with a plastic rubber or gently stroked onto a grained paper to produce sfumato effects . |
| 12 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 13 | The redundancies apparently came as a complete surprise to USL staff who were assured before Christmas that no jobs would be lost through the Novell deal . |
| 14 | Without warning the grass suddenly exploded in a great shower and a livid white head emerged . |
| 15 | ‘ A weekend 's skiing suddenly seemed like a nice idea . ’ |
| 16 | Yeah , oh cos that 's when she said Frank , Frank only came for a short while or something ? |
| 17 | Maxim was about to explain when the lieutenant obviously came to a snap judgment on his military value and slammed out again . |
| 18 | The original defections of Burgess and Maclean in 1951 naturally came as a great shock to the British establishment and were embarrassing because of the inept way MI5 handled the matter . |
| 19 | He glanced quickly at her , his eyes darkening when she merely nodded like an obedient puppet . |
| 20 | One of the images showed the trail of a particle more massive than an electron which suddenly turned through a sharp angle making an L-shape , and whose thickness and character changed at the kink . |
| 21 | Cranston , the wineskin now surprisingly empty , only replied with a short stream of belches . |
| 22 | Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam . |
| 23 | THE parents of a boy who suddenly withdrew into a silent world have been sent a message of support from the Queen . |
| 24 | He merely retreated to a defensive , defiant position . |
| 25 | Almost at once , the decibel level inside soared from an angry mumble to a full-blown shouting match . |
| 26 | Lāla Bahādur 's desultory grizzling , which for some time had provided a steady accompaniment to his father 's voice , suddenly broke into an urgent heartfelt wail . |
| 27 | The big man suddenly collapsed like a wet parchment . |
| 28 | One of the planes , an enemy one she thought , suddenly blazed with a great yellow and red light from somewhere just behind its wings , and almost immediately , tiny bright fragments hurtled outwards from the burning plane , and it was gone . |
| 29 | But the thought of returning to publishing had not seriously entered his head until the spring of 1981 , when his attention suddenly focused on an industrial dispute afflicting Time Out magazine and its proprietor Tony Elliott . |
| 30 | The exertions of the first five miles when he had thought the Dragoons might burst from behind every hedgerow or farmhouse had exhausted both the Major and his horse , so once he felt safe he sensibly slowed to a contemplative and restoring walk . |