Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 2 | Throughout the 60s we watched incredulously as the HVS category bulged evermore lopsidedly as these great pioneers stuffed it with their goodies — Wombat , Carnage , Macabre , Vagabond , Sundance Wall — today as touch a collection of E points as you 'll find anywhere . |
| 3 | The following night Mr Newman went to the address , but was ambushed as he left his car and attacked so violently that half his face was battered beyond recognition . |
| 4 | The kustar' system , which recovered much faster than heavy industry , had 122 arteli in the city in 1922 . |
| 5 | But I suppose the old house has pulled down under pressure and built on now but that was the only house going up through there in them days . |
| 6 | Joyce retired on April 2 after 14 years service and was delighted not only to receive gifts , including a hi-fi system , but also to be wined and dined on more than one occasion before her departure . |
| 7 | In the nineteenth century it provided little more than ten per cent of government revenue . |
| 8 | His teaching programme was far more ambitious than the Cook 's tour round the library shelves plus a l:and-out , which was probably the best typical kind of library induction up to then provided in further and higher education . |
| 9 | But the local publican told Jane that these maligned outsiders behaved much better than drunk Councillors . |
| 10 | Prior to Puhlhofer , failure to obtain leave to proceed by judicial review occurred in less than 10 per cent of the applications . |
| 11 | Two accidents occurred in less than three hours on the A171 Whitby to Guisborough road during Saturday 's foggy conditions . |
| 12 | The proportions among the older mothers rose more steeply than those among the younger mothers over the three years . |
| 13 | Sales to these consumers ( which had been more effectively restrained in the difficult 1940s ) rose more rapidly than those to domestic consumers in the first ten years of nationalisation . |
| 14 | In the early sixteenth century the prices of essential goods rose more sharply than those of inessentials , and at the same time wage differentials increased again , so it is likely that by this date population was rising again , and that as real wages declined a higher proportion of them was being spent on essential goods and less on luxuries . |
| 15 | I waved my arms and shouted as loudly as possible . |
| 16 | But not out yet , his savaged leg : and he had to turn — the door opened in on him — and Anton , sprung as a cat ; this opening , what he had sought , again flung himself at the foreman , who , caught by surprise , new horror , staggered back so that both of them , locked as one , a horrific beast , fell out against the far wall , the urinal , where : so long ago , as aeons past , Parker had first made his move . |
| 17 | They innovated as far as possible under the 1948 Act but eventually secured a further Act , in 1963 , which legitimated ‘ preventive ’ work . |
| 18 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 19 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 20 | In our first Report we tried as far as possible to avoid the word ‘ grammar ’ , and to explain how important it was for children to use linguistic terminology . |
| 21 | ‘ The measure as revised by the committee tried as hard as possible to accommodate the views of those who object to women priests . |
| 22 | Spain tried as early as 1852 to establish the principle of entrance by competitive examination . |
| 23 | To Branson 's irritation , McLaren prevaricated as long as possible , affecting the disinterest of an ingénue being courted by a philanderer . |
| 24 | The oppressive regime I had anticipated was not apparent and the whole complex seemed clean , active and designed as far as possible to provide reasonable conditions and amenities for its inmates . |
| 25 | The reputation of number eighty-two was widespread , and prior to the outbreak of the Great War , it ranked as highly as any of the European brothels , and was reputed to number amongst its clients the very highest in the land . |
| 26 | Substantial supplies had to wait on the mining of reefs first found as late as 1880 outcropping on the Tawmaw plateau . |
| 27 | For this reason it would appear likely that bones modified as greatly as these would be uncommon in the fossil record , and the predators that produce them unlikely to be important contributors to fossil bone assemblages . |
| 28 | The ferry across the Derwent , mentioned as early as 1315 , was last mentioned in the middle of the 17th century . |
| 29 | Instead , I invested in my future by buying a word processor and kept on those visits from counsellor and healer and maintained as far as possible — even over Christmas itself — my ‘ stay well ’ diet . |
| 30 | The first split occurred as early as 1948 when Yugoslavia was denounced by the Soviet Union and its allies for supposedly giving too much favour to peasants at the expense of the working class and for exercising party authority in an insufficiently decisive manner . |