Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gamely fought back to 27-20 with a Rob Myler try 10 minutes from time . |
| 2 | Ironically when it eventually got close to Black Rock , no " rescue " could be made because of low water . |
| 3 | Last summer Berlin 's streets suddenly became home to thousands of Romanian and Bulgarian refugees , many of them gypsies , who took advantage of easy entry into soon-to-disappear East Germany to gain access to the West . |
| 4 | We were a group of young people who all lived locally in one of the poorest areas on the outskirts of San Salvador . |
| 5 | Seeing Alice 's commenting face , Muriel said swiftly , " But he only got back at three this morning , and those Channel boats … |
| 6 | So begins the story of Ragged Dick , or Street Life in New York , Horatio Alger 's first book — the first of 135 tales written in the late 1800s that together sold close to 20 million copies . |
| 7 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 8 | Cos he , he , well he said she only lived there for two months . |
| 9 | The pouch-seat clutched me again as the ship suddenly bounced sideways with another grinding crunch and shriek of stressed metal . |
| 10 | No doubt he 'd enjoyed this association with young men , trousers and jackets endlessly tried on in curtained booths . |
| 11 | And he only found out from one of his operatives who had seen Bernard at Beirut Airport last night . ’ |
| 12 | The flagstones were slippery and so hollowed out by three centuries of passing feet that along some of the walkways the puddles had coalesced into shallow canals . |
| 13 | However even with nine representatives of British industry on the working party , the report only came up with two specific problems . |
| 14 | However , the approaches to its main executives only came out under aggressive press questioning of Mr Gatward after yesterday 's meeting which a handful of shareholders attended . |
| 15 | However , the approaches to its main executives only came out under aggressive press questioning of Mr Gatward after yesterday 's meeting which a handful of shareholders attended . |
| 16 | Sally Dade trundled backwards and forwards in and out of the kitchen carrying table linen , candlesticks , silver and cut-glassware in a bath of sweat and giggles , while Mrs Stocks , who usually only came once in five weeks for an orgy of washing , wept silently into the pan of onions she was skinning . |
| 17 | Enough came out of that conversation to keep me brooding half the night . |
| 18 | things like that , and we also , I think this year we ought to send Sid one because he came up with ten litres of five each of them boxes so came up with ten litres of wine . |
| 19 | This time the curled metal merely came away with jellied lumps of vitreous humour sticking to it . |
| 20 | It suddenly happened out of thin air . |
| 21 | As I gingerly stepped on to one last narrow slab , I met someone I knew walking the other way . |
| 22 | More directly , the cause of integration has been served by the formal incorporation of subjects hitherto taught separately into new programmes with new names . |
| 23 | The fourth class of sites is also characterized by an irregular and haphazard network of internal streets and lanes , but one which apparently developed independently of major through routes . |
| 24 | An argument apparently broke out during these talks , and fierce fighting ensued in which Doe was shot and wounded and a total of 64 men , mostly from Doe 's contingent , were believed to have been killed . |
| 25 | It apparently died out in 1948 , and the present colony was first located at Boreham Street . |
| 26 | The British government er not only went along with this agreement at the time of the Edinburgh summit , they positively endorsed this arrangement er as being something that they er strongly supported and urged upon other member states in the European community er and that I think is a relevant matter with respect er Mr Deputy Speaker , I I appreciate that er there are other issues relating to these er er constituencies that are of greater concern perhaps to er honourable and right honourable members but this question of who actually is to pay for any new building in the European parliament is something that I believe the government can not avoid . |
| 27 | we only went out for forty minutes , we were surprised how long we 'd been gone |
| 28 | I decided doubles was getting short-shrifted so went off on that tangent . |
| 29 | I had noticed the name on a map but had never read a mention of it so went there in some trepidation : it seemed remote , so far from towns and railways . |
| 30 | It only reached there by Chief Superintendent knew what he was bloody talking about . |