Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her view , women in rock fought against male supremacy and got little further than choosing their earrings , with the moneymen conspiring to craft an image suitable for their market . |
| 2 | The wartime bombers did n't seem to care what went up ; by contrast the PIRA did and cared so deliberately as to set out selectively to destroy what is now an illusion — the sanctity of hospital in which , regardless of loyalty or background , so many thousands of victims of our vicious little civil war have received care since those nights in August 1969 . |
| 3 | They said they would send it , they got so far as taking her address , but she changed her mind , she wanted to wear it that night . |
| 4 | It applied only prospectively and did not have the effect of rendering unlawful conduct which had previously been lawful . |
| 5 | Did you enjoy your holiday with the family she asked gently , knowing that Art lived alone now and welcomed the invitations from his eldest son Toby and his wife Lynn . |
| 6 | As it spread , its uses diversified so fast as to make any introduction to twelfth-century sources on the scale attempted in the earlier parts of the book ( pp. 17–26 , 124–32 ) impossible . |
| 7 | But she moved extremely well and rallied consistently with precision and confidence . |
| 8 | Alexei followed Burun 's example , and knelt once more and prostrated himself . |
| 9 | More and more , simple ways of saving money will be found : lights will be turned off , as may water supplies during the holidays : cheaper estimates for repairs/maintenance will be sought and outside bodies charged more realistically when letting school premises . |
| 10 | They were heading westwards to where the land rose more precipitously and broke into a grey surf of scattered granite . |
| 11 | With the increasing growth and concentration of activities that accompanied urbanization , pollution nuisances occurred more frequently and affected larger numbers of people , yet pollution was essentially perceived to be a problem of dense smoke emission to be dealt with at the local level ( figure 8.1 ) . |
| 12 | Our hypothesis was that hypoxaemia occurred more often than suspected clinically from the presence of cyanosis and that selected clinical signs , including respiratory rate , would be useful to predict its presence . |
| 13 | Theda stopped still suddenly and faced him . |
| 14 | The eyes narrowed even more and became inverted and reddish ; the mouth thinned and slavered ; there was the white gleam of teeth , pointed and dripping with saliva … |
| 15 | The woods were almost black ; sheer trunks of pine and fir , some of huge dimension , crowded on the land , towered high above and blocked out light ; they reduced the world to silence , and the depths of fallen needles below her feet made every movement quiet ; even the snorting of her horse sounded dull , sucked into the black wood . |
| 16 | While the bishops were very much at the heart of Innocent 's system of church government there were papal expedients that Innocent used quite extensively that minimized their power . |
| 17 | The scattered crowd drew closer together and listened quietly , but when he gave his warning about the Riot Act , glances were exchanged , a few grinned openly , and a wit called out , ‘ They must know the law here — that is why they have all stayed at home . ’ |
| 18 | Philippa 's hand jerked forward anxiously and knocked over the bottle of varnish remover . |
| 19 | As she watched , a small car drove slowly past and made for a cottage at the far end and on the other side of the narrow track . |
| 20 | She seemed all right and coping . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd better away and check Lucky Lady . ’ |
| 22 | It was definitely a case of two points lost , but I am more disappointed that we played so well and did not win . ’ |
| 23 | Mark Prudhoe played extremely well and saved one certain goal , while one or two crosses went across the face of goal without anybody getting a touch . ’ |
| 24 | The requirement against memory ‘ bundling ’ had been important when the EC first looked at the complaints back in 1977 ; but in the period 1977–84 memory prices dropped so steeply as to make the point relatively trivial . |
| 25 | It is doubtful whether any other golf course , with the exception of St Andrews , has been written about so much , photographed so lavishly and expanded upon so frequently . |
| 26 | The crowd came together again and hid Filmer and his flower and I felt the tension in my muscles subside , and realized I had n't known I had tensed them . |
| 27 | ‘ In the end , we played positionally rather than going for an all-out assault , otherwise we might have had an even bigger score . ’ |
| 28 | I came home later and found Kelly shaken . |
| 29 | Her husband came home then and found them quarrelling , engaged in a power struggle in which he felt he had no place . |
| 30 | Pascoe came carefully forward and took it . |