Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I have n't done anything — except be an absolute misery , ’ she added honestly as she realised for perhaps the first time what a wet blanket she had been . |
| 2 | Erm we also know that base five formwork is up so we started on base five as soon as we can , put as many resources into it as we can we mentioned earlier that er having five hundred people in there made life quite congested but we decided the more people that helped in there the better and er our objective was to get the er wall steelwork up . |
| 3 | This occurred in both the proximal and distal colon . |
| 4 | When he was joined in the Test team by Desmond Haynes , one of the most dependable and successful of all opening partnerships was created , and as the senior member in his late twenties Greenidge matured at just the right time . |
| 5 | She was told that , unless insemination occurred at exactly the right time each month , her acid levels would kill off the donor sperm . |
| 6 | The Rowdies group provided by far the widest range of available roles , and it is with a discussion of these that we start . |
| 7 | It is possible to infer from these passages and others in The State of the Prisons that Howard believed in both the good man theory , and in control by the courts . |
| 8 | Well Christopher came in here the other day and he says that cake is |
| 9 | Cos a I I 've got the contracts right in the Body Shop , we got Karen she used to work in Superdrug , and she came in there the other day and I 'm saying , och , do you know Michelle ? |
| 10 | The majority of his 49 international goals came from outside the 18-yard box , and they turned many a game . |
| 11 | The sound came from inside the golden orb of hair . |
| 12 | You could n't maybe do the ploughing and that but if you were out spreading dung you or neeps you 'd to just the same as the men and the the man may man might be getting maybe about twenty pound in the half a year and the boys maybe only getting twelve or something like that . |
| 13 | She recognised at once the well-built woman who turned from some chore at the kitchen sink as the woman who had opened the door to her last Friday . |
| 14 | It was along one such barren track that Val came across more the gaunt pillars of volcanic rock , ‘ They were like giant effigies presiding over their parched and desolate kingdom . |
| 15 | It was the best lesson I 've ever had , and it came at just the right time . ’ |
| 16 | He never came to a conclusion for Angelina and Oliver came at just the wrong moment , just as the fish required the hand of the maître . |
| 17 | It was very difficult to concentrate on football , and then my injuries came at completely the wrong time . |
| 18 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
| 19 | In the first place it comprised by far the largest number of workers in one industry . |
| 20 | Below this group came by far the largest and the least known group , the common people of Sussex . |
| 21 | That meeting consisted of practically the whole business community of Belfast . |
| 22 | CHAIRMAN Sir Peter Parker was doing his best , but the 1980s opened with much the same worries of insecurity over government policy , lack of investment , and working practices which harked back to the old company rules . |
| 23 | Others were picked up opportunistically because a visitor or student arrived with just the right skills or interests to move ahead on a front I might otherwise have neglected . |
| 24 | It was just one of those things that happened to even the nicest people , and the sensible thing to do about it was pay £25 and turn up at a London hotel for a glass of sherry and an implicit promise of no humiliation if things did n't work out . |
| 25 | Florence ’ — she turned to where the two sisters were hovering in the background — ‘ get back upstairs and light the gas ; and stir up the fire ; it is n't out , so use the bellows . |
| 26 | They were just poling away and Matt shouted ‘ Hey , fellers , cut ’ but they did n't take any notice and I remember thinking maybe they 're testing the rope to see if it works , and Matt and I turned at just the same moment and saw where the Indians were heading us — straight into a pile of rocks and foaming water — and I knew the rope must have broken or something . |
| 27 | In fact your letter arrived at just the right time , since I am now planning the Spring ‘ 93 Edition of Rural Wales . |
| 28 | Before leaving the counter Maggie glanced to where the tall one was sitting . |
| 29 | Lucy glanced to where the tall man stood at the window , his back turned towards them , apparently deep in thought , because he made no reply . |
| 30 | As Seb stood beside Nahum in the chapel , awaiting Anna 's arrival , he glanced to where the six gipsies stood in the front pew of the chapel , brightly dressed , but decidedly ill at ease . |