Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cranston , the wineskin now surprisingly empty , only replied with a short stream of belches . |
| 2 | Instantly , the reaching figure became a puppet , jerking backwards in a pirouette that suddenly collapsed with the abrupt finality of cut strings . |
| 3 | One of the planes , an enemy one she thought , suddenly blazed with a great yellow and red light from somewhere just behind its wings , and almost immediately , tiny bright fragments hurtled outwards from the burning plane , and it was gone . |
| 4 | Our client had it in telephone conversation with the bank on ninth of September only proceeded with the proposed purchase on the express understanding that Frinton property was not to be included particularly as his father 's companion a Mrs eighty years of age , was residing in the property and owned a half share of it . |
| 5 | He was puzzled for a moment , then he suddenly remembered with a slight feeling of shock . |
| 6 | I tried to stare my dislike into him but I must have been unsuccessful for he merely said with a primitive accent : ‘ Good in auto , yes ? ’ and grinned . |
| 7 | A faint smell of Deller 's factory floated in , the air nicely spiced with the usual scent of smouldering rubber that was being burnt somewhere . |
| 8 | Roman looked at her in a way that made Claudia want to curl up and die , and she was n't on the receiving end , only tarred with the same brush . |
| 9 | In these terms , each of the schools investigated generally complied with the Coordinating Team 's criteria for inclusion in the Minor Project . |
| 10 | The heat of summer was beginning to gather its strength , and the day outside hummed with the gorged drowsiness of the flies . |
| 11 | When the bill came , Maitre Perreyve paid it cheerfully , and Anthony Everard , demurring to begin with , finally capitulated with a gracious closing of the eyes in acknowledgement . |
| 12 | The breadth of Mingus ' work is represented by everything from jug-band jollity , the wounded blues of ‘ Atom Bomb ’ featuring Rolling Stones Watts and Richards , Henry Rollins ' hipster piss-take on ‘ Groovy ’ and the bad blood and subterranean tremors of ‘ Erectus ’ , effortlessly contrasted with the tingling majesty of ‘ Love Bird ’ . |
| 13 | Amal and its allies had also performed strongly in east Lebanon and Beirut ( with Amal 's former Shia rival Hezbollah winning eight seats in all ) , and thus emerged with the largest bloc of deputies in the new 128-member National Assembly . |
| 14 | Morgan , hammered down 22 aces , including one to bring up his first match point after more than two hours , which he coolly converted with a bludgeoning service winner . |
| 15 | The skin was discoloured and quite swollen , but the burning sensation had eased and his whole hand no longer throbbed with the same intense pain . |
| 16 | Each covered his river valley with a new castle , wooden at first but soon replaced with a substantial stone structure . |
| 17 | Willy , thus bracketed with the Almighty , was of course her husband . |
| 18 | I I I just wondered with the so-called if staff members independent advice , erm , on what is best for them to do with superannuation pension scheme . |
| 19 | Observing her as a well-balanced and apparently fulfilled woman , it surprised me to discover that she still lived with the unexorcised ghosts of a disrupted childhood . |
| 20 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 21 | A MAN appeared in court yesterday charged with the attempted murder of a teenager whose throat was slashed at a car boot sale . |
| 22 | Man accused of attempted murder Neil Wilson , 26 , of Bardon Court , South Shields , appeared before South Shields magistrates yesterday charged with the attempted murder of Martin Elliott , 24 , of Calf Close House , Jarrow . |
| 23 | STEVEN Littlewood , 27 , of Bridgewater Avenue , Latchford , Warrington , was remanded in custody at Warrington magistrates court yesterday charged with the aggravated taking of a Ford Escort XR3i cabriolet , causing the death of 19-year-old Julian Osborne , of Dorchester Road , Hood Manor , Warrington , causing Osborne 's death by dangerous driving and driving without insurance . |
| 24 | It still burned with a harsh , blinding glare and through it she could see vague shapes , presumably the others . |
| 25 | His cheeks still tingled with the woody-scented aftershave lotion he had slapped on them . |
| 26 | The substance of one interview always conflicted with the next . |
| 27 | Opting out of a policy which costs each family of four over £1,000 a year would certainly do much to help the farming industry regain the esteem it once enjoyed with the general public . |
| 28 | Six months after his leg had been broken , he still walked with a perceptible limp , and this morning he looked harassed . |
| 29 | These usually began with a stern injunction to rise at 6.30 a.m. , first task to clear out the embers from the fire ( yet another pointer to the fire as the heart of the home ) and relight it . |
| 30 | The Far Eastern bank interviewed took an entirely different line ; they always worked with the large international firms , claiming that neither they nor candidates had any confidence in the smaller firms . |