Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life . |
2 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
3 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
4 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
5 | Wordsworth , on the other hand , placed more value on Nature as a religious and moral agent ; he began those speculations about the meaning and direction of his own life which eventually built up into The Prelude . |
6 | She felt such a clown , standing before them with that vulgar object between her open legs , but she slowly sank down towards the disgusting dildo and manipulated her thighs until the blunt tip was nudging at the portals of her reluctant orifice . |
7 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
8 | An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it . |
9 | Oh you only got up for a coffee ? |
10 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
11 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
12 | I only got out of the hospital because of an old unclosed file , and a doctor from the outside who took an interest in my case . |
13 | Wedding first , Pertwee 's wedding , and Hatton all got up in a topper with his tarty wife . |
14 | If I suddenly swanned out of the bathroom in satin , Nick would have a fit . |
15 | ‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would . |
16 | They only found out about the marriage afterwards and used it to strengthen their case , which was , basically that the Archbishop could n't have someone teaching in a school in Clontarf who was the author of a banned book . |
17 | I only found out about the Japanese this morning . |
18 | But he above is a representative of the general tone of the interview which constantly referred back to the suspiciously ‘ instant ’ political aspects of the band . |
19 | The Instruction ( Nakaz ) which Catherine personally drew up for the guidance of the deputies who made up this Commission was a conflation of ideas drawn , with little alteration , from West European writers , particularly Montesquieu and Beccaria . |
20 | Tory asked suddenly , pointing down to a strand of granite pebbles by which a group of bright blooms apparently sprouted out of the shallow water . |
21 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
22 | Dunlop , giving his new Honda : which only came out of the crate on Thursday : its first run , finished second to Paul Harbinson in the first race before beating Stephen Farmer and Gary Dynes in the second race . |
23 | Mildred tried to shriek , but it only came out as a frenzied croaking . |
24 | Now , obviously I 'm not going to talk about profits from the T V division just now , because Thames only came in at the half year , and we 're not including any profits from B Sky B in the half year , but it 's likely that we 'll take some de-loan stock interest in at the year end . |
25 | ‘ I only came in on the red , raw minute , ’ she said , ‘ so you 'll excuse me , madam . ’ |
26 | Others hated and ignored them , saying they only came down to the city to steal . |
27 | The presbyterians also had misgivings , and only came back into the system in 1838 when they were practically guaranteed control of their own schools within it . |
28 | This psychology naturally lingered on into the supposedly liberal atmosphere of NEP in the form of the utopian hope that obligations imposed ‘ from the Centre ’ , as the peasants put it , could be avoided , whilst retaining economic rights . |
29 | Erm I suppose what we ought to focus on , is not so much the details of the ethnography so came up from the study , but erm but some of them are almost thieves |
30 | The kitten lived to be nine , so came out of the whole business best , I suppose . |