Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One in Devon has 70 members and is carried on much as when it was founded in 1799 . |
| 2 | For instance , half a dozen A's are included much later because as Miller explained varieties of Aloe and Agave had only recently flowered in the Chelsea Garden for the first time and could not have appeared before . |
| 3 | It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination . |
| 4 | If they all have the same score then the decision to carry just one forward is arbitrary , or they must all be carried forward just as though a tree were being searched . |
| 5 | ‘ In the light of the Divisional Court 's decision , we have naturally considered very carefully whether or not we should take the matter any further . |
| 6 | Families were linked by marriage alliances , and the determination of fathers to make these locally is nowhere shown more clearly than when the son of one gentleman of the shire was betrothed to the daughter of another , but the particular daughter 's name was left blank in the bond of betrothal . |
| 7 | Town 's drugs are often made in Britain , flown to the Far East or some other convenient staging post and then brought back on the next night — to be sold more cheaply than if they had never left Britain . |
| 8 | The evening was dropping like velvet and the lagoon was fading to a deep dusky richness in which the curving palms were reflected as cleanly as though the water were a dark-silvered looking-glass . |
| 9 | And so it was as the " candidate " that he spoke to them , his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere , his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine , his lean , dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men . |
| 10 | The marker has stayed back ever since and there have been plenty of reminders of his erstwhile self ; enough , one trusts , to restore him to selectorial favour come tour time . |
| 11 | I came from Jamaica over twenty years ago and I got married in this country and I have stayed here ever since and although perhaps I might want to go back to Jamaica it 's not home to him . |
| 12 | And they 've given far more than but you or I will ever contemplate doing for God ! |
| 13 | Thus the compound operator SEQ unc can be distributed over both IF and ALT in a limited way . |
| 14 | His wrinkled face creased more deeply as though he were smiling . |
| 15 | Her garments were removed as swiftly as if she 'd done it herself . |
| 16 | The nature of a painter 's technique is never scrutinised so closely as when a work has just been cleaned , and at the heart of the exhibition will be eight of the fourteen Titians in the Louvre 's own collection that have just been freed of their treacly , dark varnishes and retouchings . |
| 17 | Thus , there is an extension in which region IV is extended as far as and is then followed by the time reverse of the entire solution . |
| 18 | The advantage of using the computer is that the answers are confirmed immediately rather than after the whole passage has been completed . |
| 19 | The hair now was white , but the baggy suits had n't altered in style a jot and she had changed remarkably little except that , as Meredith was distressed to see , the old lady now had a walking stick which accompanied her everywhere . |
| 20 | It was the first time she had been left on her own and she had managed quite well except that she had given Mrs Prichard , the colliery manager 's wife , short change by mistake . |