Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Blufton seemed trustworthy enough and had no direct relationship with Nicola .
2 Two major " betrayals " in five years were more than enough and created the permanent attitude of mistrust towards leadership which characterized radicals in the labour movement from then onwards .
3 His work with The Miracles kept him in hits until 1972 , when he finally went solo and delivered the gorgeous Smokey , which might have promised more than it delivered but which ultimately — on ‘ Baby Come Close ’ , ‘ Just My Soul Responding ’ and the personal protest of ‘ Holly ’ — established him as the great single Romeo of modern soul .
4 The boy sat up suddenly and laughed a strange , low laugh .
5 I went inside and saw a beautiful work which the artist had done on the other side .
6 He went inside and did the same .
7 Ripley beat Paul Parker on the left , cut inside and hit a low cross to the near post .
8 ‘ Take care of yourself , kid , ’ Whitlock said softly then went inside and closed the sliding door behind him .
9 We gazed , open-mouthed at the stately triple towers and the flying buttresses , then went inside and found the famous Lincoln Imp in the Angel Choir , and J. bought me a small silver imp for my charm bracelet .
10 She heard a shuffling inside and gave a small sigh of relief .
11 Joseph leaned outwards and aimed a violent retaliatory blow at his brother 's midriff , but at that moment both rickshaws swerved apart and skidded to a halt .
12 Tensely , the airmen looked below and saw the crowded train reach the North Queensferry side in safety .
13 To return to the main point : we introduced surface dyslexia as the pattern of acquired dyslexia which would be expected if neurological damage had affected the lexical procedure for reading aloud and spared the non-lexical procedure .
14 He accused the Romanian authorities of behaving brutally and demanded the immediate release of Pastor Laszlo Tokes , the ethnic Hungarian clergyman whose harassment by the authorities
15 I wrote to say so and received a courteous reply from the producer , who said , ‘ I 'm interested in the DIY approach you suggest and in our next series perhaps we 'll look at this more closely . ’
16 Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party .
17 On his way out he cocked a leg swiftly and directed a powerful jet against an immaculate trouser leg .
18 Some general practitioners have even banded together and threatened a wholesale withdrawal of funding unless the local hospital provides dermatological services in the community .
19 I tried not to watch as I fitted the frame together and balanced the unfinished top on it .
20 To get around this limitation Lotus Microsoft and Intel got together and invented a special type of memory — expanded memory or Lotus-Intel-Microsoft ( LIM ) memory .
21 His podgy , clean-nailed fingers locked together and formed a vaulted shrine over the few pages of notes that contained my Mother 's life .
22 McLeod called the rest of the team together and asked the entire squad if they had access to prescribed drugs .
23 If there were two designers they must have worked closely together and shared the same highly trained team of executants .
24 I said good-bye to Uncle John and Aunt Janie , gathered my few belongings together and bought a one-way CPR ticket to Vancouver .
25 The Princess gathered her things together and wrapped a tatty shawl over her sari and cardigan .
26 And a few miles away Antony heard the boughs of the sycamore tree sawing together and watched the sinister patterns moved by the wind across the frosted glass of the bathroom window .
27 The Youngs ' pair , split by the draw , nevertheless came together and raced the whole way side by side like twins .
28 Without further hesitation they gathered their sticks together and boarded the five Bristol Bombays , squeezing themselves into the fuselages among the piles of equipment that were to be dropped with them .
29 A number of them , including Matthew Robert Burns , q.v. , and Walter Geikie q.v. , got together and established the Congregational Church for the Deaf and Dumb , Edinburgh , in June 1830 .
30 ‘ If we had been away and had a long night-time car journey ahead of us , ’ he said , ‘ we used to put the children in their pyjamas and wrap them in blankets before we started .
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