Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 2 | Then , on the second day , we dropped down into the lowest part of the crater to reach the hot springs . |
| 3 | It was warm and sunny , and for a brief time , as she cycled along to the nearest shops , she almost forgot what was to come that day . |
| 4 | When the programme 's ratings dipped immediately after the November revamp , Focus came in for the heaviest criticism . |
| 5 | Myra flopped down on the nearest chair . |
| 6 | We went to the Hamble area 's Volvo agent , RK Marine , for an estimate of the likely cost and they came up with a worst figure of 42,520 including parts — which for any Volvo is very expensive . |
| 7 | A most extraordinary ebullient , character , he was one of those lovable teddy-bears , but highly charged with emotion which spilled out at the slightest touch . |
| 8 | Zurachina came out of the largest yurt . |
| 9 | Across the nation aristocratic backwoodsmen , a tribe previously thought to be on the verge of extinction , tottered off to the nearest railway station to obey the summons . |
| 10 | The European champions got off to the best possible start when the full-back Graeme Rutjes headed them into the lead after 12 minutes . |
| 11 | Abingdon got off to the best possible start when the live wire , Liam Herbert latched on to a ball in the penalty area , only to be brought down by Egham keeper , Paul Allis in the second minute . |
| 12 | The Israeli-Syrian track got off to the fastest start last year , when the new Rabin government promised to trade at least some of the Golan Heights for peace . |
| 13 | ALLAN Lamb 's day got off to the worst possible start as flooding in London forced a quick change of travel plans . |
| 14 | A presidential decree , reported in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of June 18 , allowed state enterprises which failed to pay their debts to the state and to private creditors within three months to be declared bankrupt and either liquidated or auctioned off to the highest bidder for a limited period of time for independent management ( the new managers to be treated as owners , but debarred from dismissing more than 30 per cent of the work force ) . |
| 15 | On holiday I teamed up with the nicest boy I 've ever met — but everyone says it 's just a holiday romance . |
| 16 | Even after the Union of the Crowns there remained a long period during which old traditions and suspicions simmered uneasily , and old local enmities flared up at the slightest provocation . |
| 17 | Yet all turned out for the best : on 20 July 1836 , Daniel Jones returned Benjamin his indenture , only too pleased to inscribe on the back of it the fact that he had appreciated the boy 's seven years with him , and making him a generous gift of five pounds in the process . |
| 18 | So it , it was it turned out for the best . |
| 19 | When Tiananmen finally broke their reserve , a million or more , a fifth of the population , turned out for the biggest of several demonstrations in sympathy with the Peking students . |
| 20 | Judging by the loud protests when the girls had to be evacuated to Norfolk , the enterprise lived up to the best expectations . |
| 21 | Making alterations and additions to the waste side of a two-stack system is relatively simple : the new branch waste pipe simply needs to be taken out through the wall and angled down into the nearest hopper head or gully . |
| 22 | I should have then gone on to the next cleanest one and finished off with the cleanest one . |
| 23 | The thorny question of divorce was discussed and argued out in the frankest tones . |
| 24 | Cornelius scooped up his chum and scrambled on to the nearest table , scattering antique French tennis racquets . |
| 25 | They talked on for the best part of an hour , ending in agreement that there was no solution to this problem , short of the mass emigration of millions . |
| 26 | Wroughton airfield near Swindon was the busiest in the world this weekend , as more than fifteen hundred aircraft flew in for the largest rally of its kind outside the United States . |
| 27 | Ignoring her , he looked through a small pile of paperbacks on the bedside table then settled down with the latest Ken Follett . |
| 28 | Immediately the engine noise grew even louder , drowning out the sound of Delaney 's own voice as he shouted an acknowledgement to the sergeant and settled down in the nearest side seat , strapping himself in . |
| 29 | Boxers , footballers and athletes who eventually broke through at the highest level , in championships in football league , in international meetings , made it not so much in spite of their blackness but because of it . |
| 30 | A most striking combination of stylish , individual shops and glorious architecture , covered over with the largest stained glass roof in Europe . |