Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men and women of Mandru 's household interacted rather more freely than was common among the upper class of Shanariah . |
| 2 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 3 | Unfortunately these conditions also much reduced their rate of march and they got only as far as Polmood , for they were now in the high uplands of the infant Tweed and the going difficult at the best of times . |
| 4 | Tree-living kangaroos got only as far as New Guinea . |
| 5 | Katy and Jamie got ready very quickly and Mum gave each of them two wee spoons . |
| 6 | The time passed all too quickly but later all were able to see the resultant masks of heads and hands thus produced . |
| 7 | The book sold so well locally that she 's now published it for sale countrywide ; available from WH Smith , Sherratt & Hughes and Waterstone 's bookshops or direct from Barbara Geere at 15 Stamford Drive , Bromley , Kent BR2 0XF ( 081–460 3646 ) , priced £2.30 ( inc p&p ) . |
| 8 | Murray and Ramsay rode together as far as the ford at Sunlaws , a wooded terrain of bluffs and hillocks , another Heiton peel-tower and the riverside mill . |
| 9 | In the nineteenth century this all changed because opiates became much more widely and cheaply available so er babies were dosed with paregoric to stop them crying erm er and subsequently in the twentieth century that stopped and we do other things now . |
| 10 | The result was that events moved perhaps too quickly and brought with them , almost inevitably , an element of confusion . |
| 11 | And Clara , overcome by the wonderful , felicitous acceptability of his offer , an offer so familiar to her , so marvellously manageable , trembled only most slightly as she said , staring down at the limp arrangements of her hands , " Oui , surement . " |
| 12 | King lived in an age when growth rates changed only slowly so that his greatest concern was the possible end of the world ! |
| 13 | At this point the Jews were being deconcentrated , were being channelled back into society , and it fell to us to help dismantle and disperse the ghettos , where the light was always failing and where the children all looked so old and full of knowledge , and everybody moved much too slowly or much too fast . |
| 14 | There was , however , one man she regarded perhaps more highly than any other , and that was the retiring , talented and very muscular boxer Marcel Cerdan , who unfortunately already had a wife and three sons . |
| 15 | If we glued little pictures of galaxies to the surface , we would see that they moved progressively further apart as we inflated the balloon . |
| 16 | The mortaring stopped just as suddenly as it had started , and it was quiet again . |
| 17 | With difficulty she stared up again at the unreachable sky beyond the bars and wire mesh of her cage and though she tried to say more she was unable to , for her wings sagged ever more weakly and she seemed barely able to hold up her head . |
| 18 | A dog yapped frantically somewhere inside and was subdued . |
| 19 | Mainly , the leading eugenists devoted themselves to preparing ‘ pedigree studies ’ of pauper families in order to establish that the residuum was a degenerate sub-species , genetically afflicted by feeble-mindedness , insanity , al holism , venereal disease , criminality , tuberculosis , and infant mortality , which multiplied far more quickly than superior members of the race . |
| 20 | The final question which arises is whether , in the exercise of our discretion , we should let mandamus go bearing in mind that the events with which we are concerned occurred as long ago as 1989 and then occupied no more than perhaps three quarters of an hour . |
| 21 | Once round the corner , I moved forward as fast as I dared , though the going was very uneven . |
| 22 | ‘ Yeah , but I got away as fast as I could , ’ I said . |
| 23 | Passing close to , and parallel with , Sturgis ' southbound command , the Nez Perce band silently traversed the now unguarded Clark 's Fork Canyon , ‘ where rocks on either side came so near together that two horses abreast could hardly pass ’ . |
| 24 | He came so often afterwards that Ackroyd began to look out for him when Saturday came round . |
| 25 | His dissenting and mercantile interests came together most poignantly when he attacked the East India Company under the leadership of the court-connected Sir Josiah Child [ q.v . ] . |
| 26 | JR was suspicious by nature , and even more so when figures came together as easily as this . |
| 27 | Frank Gray flopped all too quickly when his predecessor might have succeeded in taking the same squad to safety . |
| 28 | A detective said : ‘ Some of the murders he says he committed so long ago that he has difficulty in remembering where the bodies are buried . |
| 29 | my copy of the constitution that I filed away so neatly when I received that months ago . |
| 30 | The he made a U turn and drove away so rapidly that she could not make out his number , only the red tail light diminishing , at more than legal speed , down the deserted Embankment . |