Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The generalized conclusion ( first widely popularized by Martinson ( 1974 ) ) that ‘ nothing works ’ became widely accepted less because of its validity than because it was a message suited to its time , and because the disappointment of the high hopes invested in reform led to an over-reaction against the rehabilitative ideal .
2 Having been gently reminded by Lady Rutherford , ‘ We are all philanthropists here ; we do not need to put our hands up if we wish to speak ’ , William Morris completely forgot his shyness and at one stage became so carried away that he stood at the front of the room shaking hands with himself .
3 It was understood that everybody became so frustrated occasionally that they tried to escape , but to desert and to fail was considered despicable in their eyes .
4 Anyway I got so carried away that I ca n't remember the game in detail so this report is crap , all I can remember is the Elland Road wall of noise and the fury of the Leeds attack once Batty was on the pitch .
5 I caught an early edition , read about the ruckus , and thought I 'd better come home and see what was happening about the five grand . ’
6 She 'd only pulled away because she knew what was happening was wrong , not because she had n't been enjoying it .
7 I was we were playing this and erm they were really good because they 'd obviously played before and I could n't and they just kept it was really funny cos I kept getting like two and getting like two thousand or whatever and I want to do it really well , I 'm playing them again but they would n't so it
8 There was never any budget and so I was just using stuff that I 'd already recorded here and there — hence the roughness of it .
9 He 'd already escaped twice and three prison officers were with him … but as the taxi drove along the A34 he pulled a knife and ordered the driver to stop at this layby near Bicester .
10 It was so far outside anything he 'd ever seen before that his mind was n't letting him worry about it .
11 As far as I knew , she 'd either thrown away or burnt Dad 's possessions — ’
12 Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went .
13 Dexy 's Midnight Runners yeah so it was there were a few other weird names that I did n't that I 'd never heard before or since .
14 It was a completely unique event as far as we were concerned it 'd never happened before and hopefully it 'll never happen again .
15 Another potentially lethal hazard has been identified when baby-walkers are used ( Gray , 1987 ) ; it is easy for the child to reach out and pull on a kettle flex or iron flex which perhaps seemed safely tucked away and despite the apparent pleasure derived from baby-walkers , there is enough evidence of related accidents to recommend that they should not be used .
16 In her wake , mud or no , came another French author , even more broad-minded , in the person of François Rabelais , while in the nineteenth century the spa 's literary connections became more exalted still when the great Romantic writers , Alfred de Vigny , Chateaubriand and George Sand all visited it .
17 Following the strong showing of the UNP , Chung Ju Yung also hinted strongly that he was considering a bid for the presidency .
18 Fascist resources became increasingly concentrated here and recruitment of anti-semitic elements and adolescents was actively encouraged .
19 Aunt Lou looked mildly taken aback but not for long .
20 He became quite carried away as with dexterous strokes he carved a particularly exquisite right breast and set to work on the delicate fluting of the ribs .
21 Endoscopic laser Doppler flowmetry was used to measure neoterminal ileal blood flow in 16 patients who had undergone ileocolonic resection for Crohn 's disease and had since remained clinically and biochemically free of disease , and eight control patients who had undergone similar surgery for colonic carcinoma .
22 Ludicrous though the description might sound in print , for an organisation that had never numbered more than sixty followers and had rarely mustered more than twenty , it was strictly accurate and hardly to be dismissed by a regime uniquely devoted to National Socialism .
23 Indeed , until he was summoned home from King 's College , Cambridge , in 1698 , after the death of his elder brother , Walpole had rarely spent more than a few weeks at his Norfolk home in any year since he was 6.17 Not all families , however , sent their children away from home so early , or for so long .
24 It will be recalled that Sutton depôt was built to house 60 cars , but up to now had rarely held more than 20 , so even with the overhaul facilities , there was plenty of space to spare .
25 Her initial nerves had all gone now although it still felt strange to be on a catwalk rather than the carpeted floor of the room at the Grand Hotel .
26 As well as the letters that poured in , the other guests on the programme had all said privately that they would do what they could to help ; Ian Hislop , the editor of Private Eye , had already printed a Friends of John McCarthy ad for free , and Gerald Scarfe had agreed to design a programme cover for the upcoming Benefit .
27 Woil 's escape was over , and it had all taken less than a minute and a half .
28 Jonquil had not herself changed very much , her skin had only grown harder and more obdurate , she had swapped the steel earring for an earring of bone , and all her hair was grey .
29 Borne away to commence a decade of training in the School of Assassins , she had stubbornly insisted longer than most recruits on maintaining her identity .
30 As is turned out , Gold Award winner Fairbrother 43 at the time had already done more than enough to guide his side towards a commanding score on a pitch where stroke play was never easy .
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