Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corner goes in deep Pearce getting up well and Ward got up better than anyone and good safe hands as well by the keeper . |
| 2 | Luce asked as casually as possible . |
| 3 | Patrick asked more lightly than he felt . |
| 4 | To Branson 's irritation , McLaren prevaricated as long as possible , affecting the disinterest of an ingénue being courted by a philanderer . |
| 5 | At home Perdita behaved more atrociously than ever before , storming round the house , refusing to get a job and screaming at Violet and Eddie when they returned bronzed from a month in LA with Hamish and Wendy . |
| 6 | Hardly able to see a hand in front of her , but refusing to be daunted , Luce moved as fast as she dared down an alley-way little more than a metre wide . |
| 7 | Mrs Blakey asked as casually as she could , pushing a packet of wafer biscuits towards Kate . |
| 8 | On Jan. 15 Gorbachev went so far as to suggest that the country 's new liberal press law might be suspended in the wake of Soviet media criticism of the leadership 's handling of the Baltic crisis . |
| 9 | Toby went so far as to straighten his back . |
| 10 | Indeed , Stein went as far as to wish his players ‘ all the best for the future . ’ |
| 11 | Only wingers Rory Underwood and Simon Halliday went so far as to deliver confirmation of their departures from the international scene after the 24–0 win against Wales at Twickenham on Saturday . |
| 12 | Hatch looked up sharply as he placed the box of shrubs on the side . |
| 13 | Talking to Andre Malraux years later , Picasso went so far as to say that it was on this occasion that he all of a sudden received the revelation of why he was a painter at all and that ‘ I realized what painting was all about ’ . |
| 14 | Through some of his paintings of 1912 Picasso went so far as to say candidly to the spectator , ‘ j'aime Eva ’ ; at the same time he wrote to Kahnweiler of Eva , ‘ I love her very much and I shall write it on my paintings . ’ |
| 15 | The Prior questioned him closely and Corbett answered as accurately as he could . |
| 16 | The day was fabulous and David performed extremely well although he was in the blackest of moods . |
| 17 | Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes . |
| 18 | Ruth got as far as the doorway and stopped dead . |
| 19 | Granpa clapped so loud as I returned to my place that some of the mums looked round and smiled , which made the old fellow even more determined to see that I stayed on at school until I was fourteen . |
| 20 | Spain tried as early as 1852 to establish the principle of entrance by competitive examination . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , ’ Ellie added as fiercely as she could . |
| 22 | Doone arrived very soon after Tremayne had gone and came straight to the point . |
| 23 | The meeting Reccommend to Mr. McNiell of Ardnacross to get the Church yeard Dyke of Kildalton finished as soon as possible … |
| 24 | Of course gold prospecting in Ireland started much earlier than this — in 1957 Anglo-United were prospecting for gold in Clentibret , Co . |
| 25 | But in 1834 , Weeks sold the contents of his museum and the Swan disappeared once again until it emerged at the Paris Exhibition 33 years later . |
| 26 | Farr-Jones went so far as to telephone his wife Angela in Sydney saying she should expect him home within days . |
| 27 | Janice went home earlier because of Teddy 's time-keeping and the office sits in darkness . |
| 28 | But seeing off Michael Meacher proved substantially easier than seeing off the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 29 | Cornelius smiled more broadly than ever . |
| 30 | ‘ Because I 've been given my marching orders , ’ Ellie said more shortly than she 'd intended . |