Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You heard that ? ’ asked Morse sharply . |
| 2 | ‘ Did she love him ? ’ asked Morse gently . |
| 3 | ‘ Who is it ? ’ asked Morse quietly . |
| 4 | He was beaten by an innings , scoring only 3 and 31 to his opponent 's 75 , but in 1833 , when Yorkshire played their first county match against Norfolk , he met Bradbury again and ‘ exhibited such ability with the bat that he almost ran his opponent off his legs . ’ |
| 5 | We went out for dinner that evening and I asked Sheila why she 'd brought an egg poacher . |
| 6 | Boeing has issued a warning to airlines to check the pins after 3,000 take-offs , while before the crash they recommended checks only after more than 5,000 . |
| 7 | GA Property Services produced deficit only marginally higher at $12.1m ( $11.9m loss ) after reporting reduced losses in Q3 . |
| 8 | I asked Pamella why she thought the press had treated her story with such virulence . |
| 9 | ‘ Fortunately , the United States and Irish camps came to our rescue , and we got Marcus out on to the track . |
| 10 | ‘ I got Colin on to them . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She 's a big girl , ’ agreed Lefevre appreciatively . |
| 12 | It was explained to the women 's meeting which took this decision that " times had changed since the inauguration , that the cost of travel made meetings now almost impossible and that with the formation of local branches of the BDDA there was not the same need for the Auxiliary " . |
| 13 | It made Times just look super elegant , you know , and yah I , that 's what 's wrong with all the foundries now , they forgot where they came from . |
| 14 | When Kisling asked Beatrice why she had not turned up , Modigliani replied : ‘ I am responsible . |
| 15 | ‘ But why did he ? ’ asked Scarlet again . |
| 16 | ‘ What are you doing here ? ’ asked Marcus crossly . |
| 17 | ‘ Like where ? ’ asked Victoria incuriously . |
| 18 | ‘ Is there any well known author you do n't know already with whom you 'd like to spend all the time I have to spend with him ? ’ asked Roger plaintively . |
| 19 | I asked Roger how he managed to establish this kind of control , to reproduce with twenty or more disruptive pupils the semblance of a ‘ model ’ lesson . |
| 20 | So I got Peggy up from Somerset , on the same farm you see , and that was much better , and erm we 've been cycling to Stroud , to the pictures you know , 8 miles there and 8 miles back , and erm but the awful job he gave me to do for a few days was along , there was a young lad there and he was going to drive the old heavy fords and tractor and I was going to walk behind , and he 'd got converted horse drags I suppose they call them |
| 21 | They made slow progress and as there was no reason for haste they soon made camp again and this time were particularly careful to conceal themselves and their horses among the trees well away from the ride ; they also arranged for watches through the night which they had not done before . |
| 22 | This manager stuffed money down their throat under the guise of being their friend and adviser . |
| 23 | A little later Bacon appeared , walked up to their table and asked Minton why he did not look after his back numbers . |
| 24 | To illustrate this one has only to look at the account of a pupil pursuit in a school which had thought through clearly its broad curriculum and made plans accordingly . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's got ta be the right thing to do , ’ agreed Mueller readily . |
| 26 | Conservative interests sought their own way of picturing the order of Nature , preferring images that admitted change only within the framework of a divinely preordained plan of creation . |
| 27 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 28 | This competition made conflicts more likely and meant that in any conflict rival groups of Indians would be involved ; those who traded with the French would support them , and their enemies would support the British , so that Indian skirmishing inland played a larger part in the fighting of the 1740s than in previous wars . |
| 29 | ‘ All right , Charles , ’ asked Frances softly , ‘ when was the last one ? ’ |
| 30 | Whatever his faults from the perspective of Amnesty International , those very same blots on his reputation were what made Romania much more credit-worthy than many less brutal regimes . |