Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes … ! ’ he said deeply , and then his mouth closed over hers , burningly sensual as his hands moved slowly up to tunnel into her thick black hair , and as her mouth opened beneath his the hunger swept them both again , their breathing quickening as the kiss took fire and his mouth was fierce , hot , demanding , his hands moving over her body as she heard his heart thudding violently at his chest , and she knew she was in danger of losing her mind with the sweet , hot rush of excitement . |
| 2 | Dyson lingered , and he and Lewis found still more to say to one another , strolling up and down the cloister of New Buildings . |
| 3 | I was wearing a large theatrical ring with an enormous ‘ emerald ’ surrounded by paste diamonds and he bent more closely to look at it . |
| 4 | The Newry keeper parried Liam Smyth 's angled drive but sub Victor Welch moved sharply in to score in 70 minutes . |
| 5 | She tried hard not to complain to her father . |
| 6 | Masklin tried hard not to look like a minor organism . |
| 7 | So I abandoned the ‘ jazzy white number ’ and tried hard not to think about the comments of the other athletes who had watched the race with Colin in Portugal . |
| 8 | Asik simply wished he could live closer to the village but he knew there was no way his grandparents would survive the move , so he trundled on and tried dearly not to think about it . |
| 9 | His primary commitment was to effective control ; he chose deterrence because it seemed most obviously to follow from his views on human rationality . |
| 10 | She drove so frantically to begin with that it finally occurred to her that she was running the risk of being stopped for speeding . |
| 11 | Then we all came together again to go through the material before we started to teach it . |
| 12 | Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers , but of folk singers , bearded or otherwise . |
| 13 | Well , she 'd lost her bonus now , she observed ruefully to herself as the tall dark stranger turned once more to look at her and remarked in a scathing tone of voice , ‘ I would say that , considering the state your car 's in , about the only thing it 's good for is to be used as a battering-ram . ’ |
| 14 | I did the best I could with the five keys that would produce a sound and vowed never again to sit in a cupboard . |
| 15 | He made no sketches in advance but got straight down to work with pencil and ruler , drawing the outline before filling in with emulsion paint . |
| 16 | The biggest of the children , a girl with a sweet , oval face and a stout stomach that strained the buttons of her green print dress , handed the baby she was carrying to a smaller sister and stepped eagerly forward to stand beside Martha . |
| 17 | It was only with the American-led development from the 1900s of geriatric medicine as a new specialty , followed in the interwar years by self-help books and clubs encouraging older people to keep fit , travel , keep working , and — at least from the 1950s — stay sexually active , that informed European opinion began once more to swing towards a positive view of ageing . |
| 18 | He glanced quickly across to check on Delaney and Nell , and was turning his attention back to the others , when he frowned . |
| 19 | I eventually got tired of the sad lady and the mantenuta and started once again to look for something different . |
| 20 | The Arab group at the UN decided yesterday not to press for a vote on upgrading the PLO 's UN status after the General Assembly President , Mr Joseph Garba of Nigeria , urged the sponsors to drop their resolution . |
| 21 | The Arab group at the UN decided yesterday not to press for a vote on upgrading the PLO 's UN status after the General Assembly President , Mr Joseph Garba of Nigeria , urged the sponsors to drop their resolution . |
| 22 | The Arab group at the UN decided yesterday not to press for a vote on upgrading the PLO 's UN status after the General Assembly President , Mr Joseph Garba of Nigeria , urged the sponsors to drop their resolution . |
| 23 | She took her drink to the salon , where the remains of the fire still glowed , and after a while she put on the lamps and went slowly across to look at the paintings . |
| 24 | He managed furthermore discreetly to put into circulation the audacious proposal that he should be the first Governor-General of the two independent states . |
| 25 | Accomplished compere that she is , she knew just when to stick in the ‘ but seriously , folks ’ bit . |
| 26 | He knew exactly where to look for the nest of any bird we were likely to come across and by certain local circumstances was unerringly guided to a nest hidden deep perhaps in a thorn bush … . |
| 27 | Christie , so adept at getting the aid of Administration for his own business , knew exactly where to look for help , and approached Lord Ilay through his deputy , Lord Milton , and without any attempt to bargain simply asked for an appointment for his son , promising that it would ‘ forever laye me under the deepest obligationes ’ . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , she had the whole afternoon to prove to Mr All-too-sure-of-himself Blake that she knew exactly how to behave like a lady . |
| 29 | He turned away , and went downstairs again to drink at the bar . |
| 30 | Greatbatch and Thomson — again to the arm ball — were swept aside in the space of four deliveries , Patel chose once more to live by the sword and this time died by it , and Cairns fell meekly , to the ever-increasing cluster of fielders around the bat . |