Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without disparaging the spiritual discipline practised in the Lugard home , it seems fair to say that young Freddy , who even then possessed a lively truculence , studied too assiduously to be good . |
| 2 | The hon. Member for Hemsworth stuck , within reasonable bounds , to the conventions of the House in not making an over-contentious maiden speech , but he came very near to being contentious |
| 3 | What had appeared then to be contentment turned out now to be cold loneliness . |
| 4 | We feel that er Trevor was virtually told what to say , er we do n't think it was er a true picture of what er happened out there to be honest . |
| 5 | The reader will recall that I argued that this meant satisfactorily surmounting the three stages of psychosexual growth which psychoanalysis discovered long ago to be typical of most individuals in our culture . |
| 6 | Liza appeared not merely to be uninterested in her child , but positively to reject the dark-haired , red-faced bundle who Harriet felt more certain than ever had not been fathered by John Carrow . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've always thought I did quite well at being inconspicuous myself , ’ said Edward . |
| 8 | She began to understand that her working clothes had not just to be fashionable but also to cope with the vagaries of walkabouts , the intrusion of photographers and her ever-present enemy , the wind . |
| 9 | I only wish that the House had listened to the present Minister of State , the right hon. Member for Plymouth , Sutton ( Mr. Clark ) 10 years ago when , in March 1981 , in a highly prophetic speech against the views of his Tory colleagues , he said that far from being strong and a threat to the world , the Soviet Union was in the process of retreat and disintegration . |