Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her view , women in rock fought against male supremacy and got little further than choosing their earrings , with the moneymen conspiring to craft an image suitable for their market . |
| 2 | When the man had had his face washed ( by stella ) and been given a drink , and one of the barmen had called for a taxi , Mother got right up and got on the stage and told Gary she was ready for her song now . |
| 3 | The wartime bombers did n't seem to care what went up ; by contrast the PIRA did and cared so deliberately as to set out selectively to destroy what is now an illusion — the sanctity of hospital in which , regardless of loyalty or background , so many thousands of victims of our vicious little civil war have received care since those nights in August 1969 . |
| 4 | Dolly quivered all over and buried her face in the pillows to smother her shrieks of laughter . |
| 5 | They said they would send it , they got so far as taking her address , but she changed her mind , she wanted to wear it that night . |
| 6 | It applied only prospectively and did not have the effect of rendering unlawful conduct which had previously been lawful . |
| 7 | Did you enjoy your holiday with the family she asked gently , knowing that Art lived alone now and welcomed the invitations from his eldest son Toby and his wife Lynn . |
| 8 | He slowed down to pick his way among the ! patches of white water quite close inshore , at one point even vanishing between a towering sea-stack and the main cliff , then , once past the headland , he throttled right back and motored tamely into Otters ' Bay , making for the jetty there . |
| 9 | Fen moved on abruptly and threw open a door . |
| 10 | He sent for a pallium for the new archbishop , Eanbald ( 1 ) , in 780 or 781 ( ASC D , s.a. 780 ) and in 786 received the papal legate , George , bishop of Ostia , who had come to York to inquire into the state of the Northumbrian Church , at a council attended by all the chief men , ecclesiastical and lay , in the kingdom , when the legate pronounced on much that displeased him . |
| 11 | The rain pattered down softly and dripped off the Mini 's rusty edges , trickling to join the puddle they were already lying in . |
| 12 | She drew in deeply and exhaled through her nose , then snapped the cigarette briskly from her mouth and pointed it at him with a flourish . |
| 13 | He stood at the bottom of the steps and looked up at her so fiercely that she stopped halfway down and felt quite uneasy , wondering exactly what she had done wrong . |
| 14 | As it spread , its uses diversified so fast as to make any introduction to twelfth-century sources on the scale attempted in the earlier parts of the book ( pp. 17–26 , 124–32 ) impossible . |
| 15 | But she moved extremely well and rallied consistently with precision and confidence . |
| 16 | She bent down quickly and retrieved the folder that , as she 'd sat down , she 'd laid on the floor by her chair . |
| 17 | Averting her head , she bent down quickly and finished stuffing some sheets of paper and pencils into a plastic bag . |
| 18 | Alexei followed Burun 's example , and knelt once more and prostrated himself . |
| 19 | More and more , simple ways of saving money will be found : lights will be turned off , as may water supplies during the holidays : cheaper estimates for repairs/maintenance will be sought and outside bodies charged more realistically when letting school premises . |
| 20 | They were heading westwards to where the land rose more precipitously and broke into a grey surf of scattered granite . |
| 21 | With the increasing growth and concentration of activities that accompanied urbanization , pollution nuisances occurred more frequently and affected larger numbers of people , yet pollution was essentially perceived to be a problem of dense smoke emission to be dealt with at the local level ( figure 8.1 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Theda stopped still suddenly and faced him . |
| 24 | However , Ell moved quickly over and picked up the raw meat . |
| 25 | Erm and so I wandered up there and had a look at it and photographed . |
| 26 | We do not believe he just wandered up there and lay down to die . |
| 27 | I drew back immediately and gasped , " I 'm sorry — " He said , " I 'm sorry , too , " in a quiet , dead voice . |
| 28 | It bounced back hard and left the pillar splashed with paint and some of the trim as Carson fishtailed the Mercedes out into the road and away from the house . |
| 29 | There was something strangely prurient about a total freedom to examine someone else 's personal tastes , but all her artistic antennae were quivering as she moved back inside and began to look carefully around her . |
| 30 | As the Rallye dropped to about thirty feet above the runway , Miranda throttled back completely and held the stick back . |