Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One important distinction between the two writers is that Bentham became much more favourably disposed towards the prison as a medium of criminal reformation than Beccaria appeared to be ( a point to which I shall return later ) . |
| 2 | After he had finished with his mathematical work and he was embarking upon that epistemological work , Russell , partly through his , the internal evolution of his character , and partly through the onset of the First World War , became much more deeply engaged in practical affairs . |
| 3 | The ones described so far probably represent the major positions available to fans , but it is vital to note that simply having a strong relationship with an occupant of one of these role-position holders also afforded some degree of status . |
| 4 | I can only assume she tried once too often to enter the nest , as the female died during the night . |
| 5 | The flat string of squares flickered slightly just sufficiently to show it was a projection , nothing real ; but although it was apparent the line of squares itself was merely an image , on its surface sat seemingly real and solid wooden chess pieces made from black and white wood , and set on that strange line like tiny isolated guard towers on a chequered frontier wall . |
| 6 | So that flying club that you mentioned earlier on just finished ? |
| 7 | But the cops exercise restraint , and the huge crowd gathered to watch the spectacle laugh and chant as unfortunates caught red-handed inside individually beat a hasty retreat . |
| 8 | When Amelia had had her serve the drinks , Nina realised just how far gone she was . |
| 9 | As they became progressively more heavily taxed , that responsibility , instead of going to companies , went to government and government has been seen to do it very badly . |
| 10 | He 'd much more likely kick a drunken beggar , but that 's what most people are like and you can put up with it . |
| 11 | Ten minutes later , he was standing as a customer in another shop , the kind of shop that he 'd only previously ever visited in a raid . |
| 12 | I 'd expected some Chart Show clothes horses purveying diluted Techno , not an androgynous keyboardist , a commanding dancer and the mad hatter MC who 'd just as soon sing the praises of spliff as he 'd stare out the crowd , bug-eyes in effect . |
| 13 | For example , I really liked the Jowett Javelin but by then they 'd already pretty much disappeared . |
| 14 | But he 'd still much rather have a new pair of football boots at Christmas . |
| 15 | I graduated from Salford in June 1987 and came straight out here to teach in a privately-owned Academy . |
| 16 | This plaque and this tower and museum , we have dedicated it as a memorial to those days when you suffered severely yet still struck your targets . |
| 17 | Araminta , a vision in grey , came forward somewhat reluctantly to greet Auguste . |
| 18 | Learning now seemed no longer even to require two cells in culture , but could be completely mimicked by squirting serotonin onto an isolated motor neuron . |
| 19 | The disappearance of manned bombers as well as fighters would reduce the RAF to a missile and air-transport force — not an inviting prospect , but one that seemed too far ahead to worry about unduly in 1957 . |
| 20 | Naturally , his owner learnt very rapidly never to handle another horse in his presence . |
| 21 | The local contests showed just how racially polarised Chicago politics remains . |
| 22 | A MASSIVE shake-up of local government unveiled yesterday almost certainly sounds the death knell for ‘ unloved ’ county councils such as Cleveland but could mean the return of the Yorkshire Ridings . |
| 23 | But subjects that experienced a reminder treatment ( unsignalled foot-shocks given in a different apparatus ) between the conditioning trials and the test session showed almost as much conditioned responding as control subjects that had not been pre-exposed to the noise . |
| 24 | She wished she had n't ; vivid fragments of the previous evening 's escapade sprang only too easily to mind . |
| 25 | For someone over seventy her descent of that great staircase was as good as a frolic ; her satchel swung wildly round merrily bumping her large bottom , her sensible suede shoes skippetty-hopped like the finest quality glass slippers , while her honest tweed skirt flirted up her legs in order to give her long beige knickers their first sight of the sunshine in quarter of a century . |
| 26 | The pretence that statutes merely declared existing law was dropped ; they occupied areas of national life which before they had only occasionally entered ; they became far more precisely drafted and the judges interpreted them a good deal less freely ; they were , by the reign of Elizabeth , the outcome of a definite and recognized procedure . |
| 27 | I decided long ago Never to walk in anyone 's shadow ; If I fail , if I succeed At least I lived as I believe , And no matter what They take from me , They ca n't take away my dignity . |
| 28 | He pulled away long enough to strip off the rest of his clothes , and she followed , unable to bear losing contact even for a second , dipping her head forwards to taste his skin , her fingers stroking his muscled back . |
| 29 | A big grey five-year-old , Sunset And Vine jumped well in the Lily Tree Novice Hurdle and stormed home well clear looking a horse with a real future — some of it , I hope on the right channel . |
| 30 | Charles worked very hard indeed to strengthen this fusion , under the single role of emperor , as leader of all human endeavour and development . |