Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look if you put your boat into the boat-house now , he would n't see it till he got right down here again , and then perhaps- ’ |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Betty Titford was clearly getting no better as years went by , and she must have had friends who realised only too well that 1s. a fortnight could hardly supply even her most fundamental needs . |
| 3 | It therefore looks as though a decade in which her political nerves had always been stretched was succeeded by a dangerous level of confidence when the situation became apparently so much safer ; she was no longer walking a tightrope , and she now walked too boldly on the ground . |
| 4 | Adding up all of the costs of the items mentioned so far amazingly only amounted to £230.58 . |
| 5 | Glassford had declared his intention of supporting Lord Dundas 's interest in the election , but when he was visited by Alexander Bruce of Kennet , who was managing the election for Lord Dundas , ‘ we really found all not so right ’ . |
| 6 | Very soon he stopped , juggled the engines to and fro until he reckoned the bows were a hundred yards distant from the buoy , had the anchor dropped , then moved just as slowly astern , the anchor chain being paid out as he went . |
| 7 | Next the murdering puffs of explosive charge and ragged steel fragments dissolved into weak smoke and the plane was butting through the piece of sky which , seconds before , had been laced with violence ; and meanwhile , other shell bursts erupted just as unpredictably ahead , and behind , and below . |
| 8 | Shortly after trying this out InteCalc crashed fatally anyway so perhaps having Version I.0.0.0 is tempting fate … |
| 9 | Pre-tax profit rose nearly twice as fast , gaining £20.5million to £176.5million . |
| 10 | Pre-tax profit rose nearly twice as fast , gaining £20.5million to £176.5million . |
| 11 | Propagated contractions were more often recorded in the proximal oesophagus ( p<0.05 ) , whereas non-propagated contractions occurred about twice as often in the distal as in the proximal oesophagus ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 12 | Their presence in totally inadequate police accommodation is authorised by the Prisons ( Temporary Provisions ) Act 1980 , a statute passed as an emergency measure to cope with an industrial dispute with prison officers and used almost continuously ever since . |
| 13 | But while the French did not feel encouraged to emigrate in large numbers , the 50,000 inhabitants of New France moved inland much more boldly than the Abbé Prevost might have made one expect . |
| 14 | Several boats had followed and were waiting to transport the tourists back to a civilisation that seemed so very far away from the respite of these fascinating caves . |
| 15 | It seemed so long ago now . |
| 16 | She wondered if he remembered that time he had hummed that same song on the snow-covered terrace in Rocamar — it seemed so long ago now . |
| 17 | When she first came she ate so much so often that I thought she had worms , but she settled down to a very moderate appetite , so the worming tablet the vet . |
| 18 | As she collapsed she saw the last of the assassins crumple , his body lifted once then once again as the shells ripped into him . |
| 19 | Quiss and Ajayi had carried out experiments using identical candles , lit at the same time , one hard by the face of a clock , the other in the middle of the room with them ; the candle by the clock burned nearly twice as fast . |
| 20 | It was eight days since they had last lain on the bed together , and sex seemed as far away now as then . |
| 21 | When the government decreed that student numbers should be cut , that university grants be cut , and that overseas students should pay their full fees for courses and board in the UK , LSHTM with its large overseas intake suffered initially only as badly as other London colleges . |
| 22 | His brow banged hard down once then settled gently |
| 23 | He seemed quite all right again . |
| 24 | The radial shields are irregularly tear drop shaped about twice as long as broad and separated along their entire length . |
| 25 | ‘ I think Mr Fairham means that we all share a concern over the incident that happened here not so long ago , ’ Clinton said . |
| 26 | But they were not in Great Britain in 1984 , and adjacent areas with similar relatively isolated mining communities ( notably Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire ) differed very substantially not only in their support for the strike call but also in their level of industrial militancy over a substantial period of time . |
| 27 | But he could n't , so he climbed to the disabled man 's perch , and began a sensitive , confident probe , and discovered quite soon how far the man had progressed , and finished the work , fast and easily . |
| 28 | The Tory party was more loosely structured : there were tensions between the Highflyers and the more moderate wing that emerged under Anne , and which came to be led by Robert Harley , whilst even the High Church chieftains — the Earl of Rochester , the Earl of Nottingham , and Sir Edward Seymour — worked much less closely together than the Whig Junto . |
| 29 | They pulled away again almost immediately . |
| 30 | Paige scrambled upright far less elegantly . |