Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After several days of this treatment , Honey became less anxious and forgot her bad habits of rearing and crossing her jaws ; and she eventually became quite a pleasant horse to ride . |
| 2 | First published ( under a different title ) in 1909 , it eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into 25 languages . |
| 3 | ‘ She only arrived here a few days ago , when her uncle died . |
| 4 | Their best effort of the entire proceedings was a superb save in 75 minutes by keeper Kevin McKeown who brilliantly touched away a searing drive by full back John Drake who had moved on to a Totten free kick . |
| 5 | But the suspect must have noticed him , because he suddenly waved down a passing taxi and drove off . |
| 6 | You could indeed , you could indeed it it reinforces a point does n't it , so I mean I so went back a few times with the flipchart yesterday with things that we need to re reinforce yes ? |
| 7 | Ahead of him stretched the future , and this time , instead of a summer landscape full of lush green fields , it suddenly took on a closed and wintry air . |
| 8 | This was a cardboard cylinder with a light bulb inside , which rotated and sent out pulses which purportedly brought on a transcendental state . |
| 9 | ‘ My mother was a very careful owner and only did about a thousand miles a year between the end of the war and 1962 . |
| 10 | Erm I just moved probably a half a pace so P C would get exactly the same view as myself . |
| 11 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 12 | Whereas The Snail that Climbed the Eiffel Tower had allowed Minton to rework , in lighter and more decorative form , imagery coined in his landscape drawings of the mid-1940s , Time Was Away opened up a whole new repertoire . |
| 13 | When Wattana effortlessly opened up a 2-0 advantage , Parrott looked in trouble again . |
| 14 | He goes ah , no thanks , somebody just threw away a lovely corn on the cob . |
| 15 | Abruptly she turned away from him and walked into the apartment 's lounge , not consciously knowing why she did so , but driven by a need to get away from this man and the harshness of his condemnation , which should n't matter to her , because he did n't matter , but which nevertheless called up a churning confusion of resentment and frustration , as well as a new , unnerving hurt . |
| 16 | Relations with western Europe thus took on a high profile and Finland was among the EFTA countries seeking to negotiate with the European Communities ( EC ) a single European Economic Area [ see pp. 38307 ; 38353 ; 38 ] . |
| 17 | The whole net of relationships between community and subculture , class and centralizing monopoly capitalism thus took on a different shape . |
| 18 | The voltage on the power panel which the Object Management Group has planned for its Object World expo later this month just went up a few notches : Lotus ' John Landry could n't make it so they got Sun 's Bill Joy as a substitute . |
| 19 | This proved too much for Daniel Wilkinson , who nevertheless put up a sparkling display of shots and services . |
| 20 | Instead , I just lit up a straight fag and shared it with her , Bogart style . |
| 21 | Angela soon had quite a bright idea . |
| 22 | She just sat over a leisurely breakfast and planned her day , and never looked back after that . |
| 23 | At the start only 14 per cent of our panel reported Labour stressing these issues , but the figure rose to 20 per cent in the fourth week and 32 per cent in the fifth as Labour sought to divert attention away from defence and to move on from unemployment , which directly affected only a small minority , to education and especially the National Health Service , which directly affected the vast majority of the electorate . |
| 24 | Instead , kids compare the stats on dogs like Scion , whose total seizure value to date is over $91 million , or Sinbad , who once turned over a camper van on the Mexican border and sniffed out 400 pounds of cocaine . |
| 25 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |
| 26 | Table 6.5 reveals a slight contraction in this sector during the 1970s , but nevertheless in 1980 it still represented over a third of the economically active population for the region as a whole . |
| 27 | It still incorporated both a zoological and a botanical garden , but now had an extensive research and teaching function . |
| 28 | You would think that these rabbits would have no chance against the combined land and air assaults of ferrets and hawk , but they were incredibly fast and usually disappeared down a safe hole before our Harris 's could get hold of them , even though the Harris 's hawk moves like lightning . |
| 29 | ‘ I wanted off to Northampton in April and Darlington still had about a third of the season to play . |
| 30 | Presumably he had already set in motion the machinery which next month would array a large army under his command , but when he approached Limoges he still had only a few men with him . |