Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , no ? ’ he drawled mockingly as he slowly lowered his dark head towards her . |
| 2 | Damian Flint slowly lowered his dark head . |
| 3 | Throughout 1990 and the first half of 1991 the SLORC had imposed a series of legal restrictions on the NLD and other opponents which effectively frustrated their political ambitions . |
| 4 | Boon duly got it next day and took his average to a Bradmanesque 86 . |
| 5 | The belt tying the skirt on drew the bodice edges in round the breasts ( if they were to be exposed ) and presumably lent them some support from the sides and from below . |
| 6 | In 1987 , Tyacke vigorously restated his original position in his book Anti-Calvinists : The rise of English Arminianism c. 1590 1640 , only to be turned on once more by his critics . |
| 7 | He eventually realised his only chance of survival was to make his own way down the peak . |
| 8 | This rather cooled their high spirits , because Missenden 's failure to do what was required of him about some case of ecclesiastical preferment was criticized . |
| 9 | A MOTHER stabbed to death a pensioner the day after charges alleging he raped and indecently assaulted her four-year-old daughter were dropped , a court was told today . |
| 10 | Cook eventually created his own fleet of floating palaces to carry the ‘ Cookii ’ down the Nile . |
| 11 | Later developments in the understanding of kinship and lineage relationships owed much to his discussions of this topic , but many of his academic successors — notably ( Sir ) E. E. Evans-Pritchard [ q.v. ] and ( Sir ) E. R. Leach — effectively dismissed his doctrinaire methodology . |
| 12 | By thinking carefully about every detail , Geoff successfully created his own look . |
| 13 | Like when a woman slowly unbuttoned her yellow clothes , let them fall down around her waist . |
| 14 | Green eyes stared back at her from beneath dark slanting brows but with her short hair that accentuated her elfin face she somehow felt the swimsuit only made her slight figure look even more boyish . |
| 15 | Indeed , HyperCard has created such interest that IBM swiftly produced their own HyperCard lookalike which they call LinkWay . |
| 16 | Helen , too , was frequently informed of his over-readiness to fall in love with an attractive outward appearance , even as he constantly restated his heavy dependence upon his engrossed love for her : |
| 17 | The subscribers merely asked their local operator ( no dials in those days ) to connect them to Electrophone . |
| 18 | Winter storms swiftly obliterated his expensive engineering structures . |
| 19 | They nicked whole street , and I only read it last night . |
| 20 | Roy Bailey made his Palace debut at the age of just 17 years , but he only became our regular goalkeeper after his spell of National Service had ended early in 1953 , and then it soon became clear that Roy was a goalkeeper of the highest quality , even though he was performing in a Palace side that was almost invariably struggling . |
| 21 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 22 | No cos I only got it this summer cos my other one was nicked , my other one which had all my really nice visas in it , which I was really |
| 23 | ‘ Sir , I only met her this weekend . |
| 24 | Billy Fullerton 's Protestant gang from Bridgeton wreaked havoc on Catholics , especially if they incautiously made themselves easy targets by wearing a Celtic scarf . |
| 25 | Although he was a leading member of the Danzig Party it would probably be fair to describe him as a misguided liberal who only realised his mistaken alliance when he saw the brownshirts pulling on their kicking boots . |
| 26 | Damian sat opposite her , and every glance at his tough face only underlined her rash promise to her . |
| 27 | Schmeichel excelled himself as Torpedo 's blond danger man Talalayev suddenly found himself 14 yards from goal but his cannon shot was miraculously pushed away by the goalkeeper . |
| 28 | The earlier unicellular species were by now well adapted to their environment , and only changed their biochemical functions because of the genetic ‘ errors ’ , the mutations , that periodically occurred . |
| 29 | The less fortunate among them , like Nicholson and Robert Towne , Charles Eastman , the writers , and Monte Hellman , the director , got together in a play group and literally built their own theatre , stealing timber from building sites for their scenery ; they ripped a toilet from a petrol station and lighting and electronics were similarly acquired . |
| 30 | Sex the night before picking up his pen apparently impaired his literary powers . |