Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their place she pinned up a poster of a starving black child and a chart which eventually recorded a handsome donation to the Biafran famine relief fund , amassed by the girls from a summer fair , Christmas carol-singing and a sponsored fast during which Suzie Chamfer histrionically fainted in the lavatories . |
| 2 | Several doors opened off the landing and there were ladder-like stairs which presumably led to the attics . |
| 3 | Thus began the process which eventually led to the peasants ceasing to sow grain and ultimately to the New Economic Policy . |
| 4 | He looked to the side of the room and saw the plastic speaker from which the sound had come ; it was a component from an old car stereo , and it hung from a hook with its wire incompetently stapled to the boards . |
| 5 | Blood slowly coagulated round the edges of the gash . |
| 6 | Although it was the size of a pantry , they endlessly clung to the bars and clamoured to be let out . |
| 7 | She said in a small voice , ‘ She told me that you only cared for the vines . |
| 8 | The noise of conversation from the hall below bounced off the walls around them . |
| 9 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 10 | There 's a grungy , thrash band playing upstairs , who get the approval of the reggae crew , and if Zoë suddenly came over the speakers , then people would probably wave their arms in the air . |
| 11 | Charles complained of ‘ astigmatism ’ , and exaggeratedly squinted at the matrices , removing and putting back his glasses continually . |
| 12 | Miss Davison , who was standing close to the rails a few yards from me , suddenly ducked under the railings as the horses came up . |
| 13 | The nose dipped further , and the flame suddenly raced along the wings and around the cockpit . |
| 14 | Bleak black branches suddenly shone with the colours of dark red buds , of shining bark , of pale dry trunks that caught the sun and held it in their sinuous heights . |
| 15 | Setting her firmly down on the wide base of the large shower cubicle , he swiftly turned on the taps , before joining her beneath the cascade of fresh water . |
| 16 | While the kettle was boiling , she idly glanced at the letters . |
| 17 | He often only glanced at the reports . |
| 18 | Labbe ( 1926 ) thought that the shells of embryos were usually imbricated , but that the character only persisted in the shells of dog-whelks living in sheltered sites . |
| 19 | Our own observations suggest that the team also entertained some notion of compensation or positive discrimination which necessarily worked against the interests of some schools . |
| 20 | Summoning every scrap of courage , Mildred suddenly barged through the rows of pupils and threw herself in front of Mr Hellibore . |
| 21 | From the collection as a whole there emerges above all a Modigliani who was a most able draughtsman , a Modigliani much maligned by the critics who have unfortunately let themselves be led astray by legends rather than concentrating on the work . |
| 22 | It was the undertaker , to give him his common nomenclature , who provided what was considered ‘ correct ’ in a given situation , and he alone decided on the trappings . |
| 23 | And we meet the couple whose wedding literally started on the rocks . |
| 24 | Descartes , who had a vigorously mechanical view about most things , believing the soul to be some largely discarnate entity entirely disassociated from the processes of living , saw animals through that same mind-filter . |
| 25 | First to go was a rather nervous Richard Crout with Jesse , a 1908 steam roller , belching out smoke he gingerly took to the roads . |
| 26 | Having made two journeys to India and stayed with Indian friends there , I did not find the quote at all out of order , and to me the emphasis naturally fell on the words ‘ now that their lives have been ruined ’ rather than the five preceding words . |
| 27 | The implication always was , the feeling , that Michael not only knew about the men in balaclavas , but was a part of them somehow , but Rory and his mother — although never discussing it — believed otherwise . |
| 28 | Then as now , he says , basic goods suddenly disappeared from the shops . |
| 29 | The leaders of Eastern religions which had resisted the appearance of the railway , as in China and Japan , soon found that their co-religionists swiftly took to the rails to visit temples and shrines . |
| 30 | The idea is that species originate by the sudden events , whatever they may be , and they have new characteristics , which randomly related to the characteristics of their ancestral species . |