Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I was still interested in English , I found both Latin and Greek increasingly tedious : they were my father 's choice for me , not mine . |
| 2 | Some arsehole right is going to pick up and say oh well I phoned up this and y'know and then phoned the bloody managing director |
| 3 | I was- ’ She stopped as Ace and Petion came through the office door with a black man she did n't recognize . |
| 4 | This he described as offensive and unjust' . |
| 5 | And besides , ’ he added in a mocking drawl , ‘ you seemed remarkably grateful and content in my arms last night ! ’ |
| 6 | We had every confidence in the staff , they seemed so caring and understanding . |
| 7 | ‘ When Miss Purdue showed us those baby clothes — the little dresses and nighties for the children of the poor fallen girls in the home on Callendar Street — they seemed so stark and plain . |
| 8 | He had parties where we all played ping pong and ate ice lollies and it all seemed charmingly fun and unstraight . |
| 9 | For example in Newcastle , Foster et al , 1976 , had shown , from an assessment of a sample of elderly people living in the community , that even though dementia sufferers received more social and health services support than other groups , nonetheless they still had greater unmet needs than other groups of dependent elderly people . |
| 10 | Quietly spoken , and with the tensions of his acting day behind him , Holden now seemed more relaxed and chatty . |
| 11 | Jim took the letter to Cedric Mellings , and came back limp and weepy with happiness . |
| 12 | ‘ No sir , ’ Vologsky lied , vaguely surprised that his voice came out strong and low-pitched instead of quavering and shrill . |
| 13 | The Southern state became more catholic and nationalist in character . |
| 14 | Facial expressions became suitably harsh and drapery appropriately modest . |
| 15 | An intensive marketing campaign early in the year encouraged more small and medium sized Glasgow companies to offer training and employment opportunities for the longer term unemployed . |
| 16 | To complete the portrait took three sittings and each time , to Indenbaum 's surprise , Modigliani turned up clean-shaven and well-groomed , and behaved in a modest , almost shy manner . |
| 17 | The body is made from four pieces of deeply figured maple , bookmatched both front and back and bonded together to form a sort of sandwich . |
| 18 | Mannitol in the water lowered both osmotic and water potential , and made them almost equal , which is why the leaves adopted the form seen in air . |
| 19 | By the time the children , taught solely lipreading and speech , were 5 or 6 years old there was a certain inadequacy in the levels of communication they could reach compared by a quotation in one book to be of a level ‘ scarcely above the signals we use to our pets ’ . |
| 20 | Returned to the invisibility of the home front , where we should have been all along , unaccounted for among the statistics of unemployment , stuck with the main responsibility for unpaid community care as the welfare state collapsed , women have seen the major characteristics of the depression of the 1980s depicted as male and youth unemployment , the destruction of men 's jobs , small businessmen going bankrupt and resentment turning to violence on the streets . |
| 21 | It produced mainly copper and metal , but the high cost of its production methods and its heavy pollution have placed its future in doubt . |
| 22 | The fag became really icy and sleet and snow fell . |
| 23 | He smelled vibrantly clean and male , with a subtle trace of sandalwood , some discreetly expensive shaving lotion , heady and irresistible . |
| 24 | Once past the Oval , they got even scarcer and following became more difficult , basically because I did n't know where I was . |
| 25 | Above her the fields rose steeply , rough grass and scattered olive trees , which in that light looked immovably ancient and grotesque . |
| 26 | The Information Minister , Michel Samaha , took on additional responsibility for Tourism ; Justice Minister Nasri al-Maalouf took on Foreign and Expatriate Affairs ; and Deputy Prime Minister and National Defence Minister Michel al-Murr took on Telecommunications and Posts . |
| 27 | She was weighed down with a confusing mixture of feelings that sometimes felt so mellow and piquant , it was almost pleasant . |
| 28 | It grew to be a sort of gang , and we always called them The Gang when we talked about them privately , Anna and I. I felt so sophisticated and intellectual talking about Rimbaud and Baudelaire at two in the morning , to handsome young men with scholarships to the Sorbonne . |
| 29 | To cap this day of celebration , the ‘ Whads ’ went down 4–0 and manager Julian Ripley-Rust was sacked . |
| 30 | He thought of trying this fancy on Cameron but his face looked so closed and dark , eyes narrowed and mouth-corners turned right down , that it forbade pleasantry . |