Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 2 | The play got as far as Wimbledon and then seemed to die . |
| 3 | Throughout the 60s we watched incredulously as the HVS category bulged evermore lopsidedly as these great pioneers stuffed it with their goodies — Wombat , Carnage , Macabre , Vagabond , Sundance Wall — today as touch a collection of E points as you 'll find anywhere . |
| 4 | The first split occurred as early as 1948 when Yugoslavia was denounced by the Soviet Union and its allies for supposedly giving too much favour to peasants at the expense of the working class and for exercising party authority in an insufficiently decisive manner . |
| 5 | I was buried alive , the pummelling stopped as suddenly as it had started , I heaved myself up and the earth and muck fell off me . |
| 6 | And I looked out the window , I could n't see anybody next thing a car moved off so whether it was same crowd I do n't |
| 7 | On Monday the figure rose once more when Frenchman Michel Bou passed away surrounded by the hi-tech machinery of Glasgow Southern General hospital 's neurological unit . |
| 8 | Our hypothesis was that hypoxaemia occurred more often than suspected clinically from the presence of cyanosis and that selected clinical signs , including respiratory rate , would be useful to predict its presence . |
| 9 | Prior to Puhlhofer , failure to obtain leave to proceed by judicial review occurred in less than 10 per cent of the applications . |
| 10 | ‘ Apparently his boat came in sooner than expected and docked at Shields , and he came up to the house hoping to see my sister , and he did . |
| 11 | The new discs were also hill-and-dale , recorded with a relatively fine groove-pitch of 150 lines per inch , so a ten-inch side played rather longer than usual ( about five minutes ) . |
| 12 | Following President Galtieri 's 75% increase of the levy on non-Argentine mining interests around the South Pole , violence flared up again as British wildcat oilmen tried to even the score after their resounding defeat in the Malvinas War of 1981 . |
| 13 | As the Principal and Vice-chancellor of Napier University , Professor William A Turmeau said to the packed courtyard at Merchiston : ‘ Our institution opened right here as Napier College in 1964 and this is a really great day , for all of us . |
| 14 | Results showed that the President obtained slightly less than 82 per cent of the vote ( in 1985 he claimed to have received 100 per cent — p. 33963 ) , with his strongest constituency in rural areas . |
| 15 | With Williamson at the wheel the boat chugged along merrily while the rest of us lolled on deck-chairs with plenty of laughter and good cheer . |
| 16 | It is not perhaps generally realised that this practice began as early as the late seventeenth century and that many of the splendid coloured aquatint books of the nineteenth century first reached the public in this way . |
| 17 | Sometimes bad things hung on so it was possible to remember an outing as the day the car broke down rather than the day there was a barbecue on the beach and the party went on until the tide came in . |
| 18 | The car slowed only slightly as Julie drove through a deserted Berkeley square . |
| 19 | Lawrence 's bid broke down largely because of Londoner Lee 's reluctance to move to the North . |
| 20 | Israel began to integrate elements of the military government into its own civil ministries , proving that the kind of autonomy it had in mind implied less rather than more Palestinian control over their affairs . |
| 21 | After the unveiling ceremony a special train hauled by No 2 The Countess went as far as Castle Caereinion before returning to Raven Square . |
| 22 | One journalist went so far as to assert , ‘ Carter should have little trouble with Congress ’ , while Professor Ross Baker noted that ‘ the basic elements are in place for a highly satisfactory relationship between Carter and Congress … there is no reason to forecast discord between the White House and Capitol Hill . |
| 23 | Mr John Greenway 's solid work in the constituency was rewarded with a 17,439 majority after his vote went up more than 4,000 to 39,888 . |
| 24 | It transpired that the snow went as quickly as it had come , the road was opened and supplies began getting through regularly again . |
| 25 | The crisis of confidence in the future went far deeper than the economic agonies of a restricted prosperity in society 's upper ranks . |
| 26 | In fact , the Conducator went so far as to command the peasants to ‘ maintain the customs and dress of our great-great fore-bears , so that they shall always be in our memory . |
| 27 | At one time , the Club went as far as refusing to allow juveniles a reduced entrance price for the London Road terrace but allowed them half price for other areas . |
| 28 | THE family of a kidnapped Israeli soldier wept openly yesterday after his body was found near a road in the occupied West Bank . |
| 29 | According to the mid-year estimates the ‘ remoter , largely rural districts ’ experienced their highest rates of net immigration between 1971 and 1974 , while at the other end of the national urban hierarchy London 's rate of net migration loss peaked as early as 1970/71 ( Champion , 1981b ; Britton , 1986 ) . |
| 30 | The bows of the boat rocked as gently as a baby 's cradle . |