Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter he became better known as a forensic scientist achieving such professional distinctions as presidency of the Medico-Legal Society and of the Forensic Science Society ( of which Grant was a founder member and secretary ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |
| 3 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 4 | The methodological challenges sketched above are considerable , and seemed best tackled in a stage-by-stage manner . |
| 5 | Herr and Frau Nordern came home contented after a pleasant evening . |
| 6 | Preston sometimes thought that Mother Bernie and William between them had ruined whatever chance he 'd ever had of a normal sex life . |
| 7 | Salisbury , an eager nightwatchman , held out against some torrid deliveries midst some frantic appealing , and all seemed well set for a gripping fourth and fifth day . |
| 8 | He warned his players to expect a hostile reception in England and said : ‘ We came mentally prepared for a hard time and determined to give our answer out there on the field . |
| 9 | Our business location strategy became more focused through a major review , which identified key opportunities for marketing , product improvement and sectoral priorities . |
| 10 | I , too , felt deeply attracted to a female colleague . |
| 11 | Whatever the uncertainties of the precise dates , events and social connections in Rolle 's life it is clear from external and internal evidence that he felt increasingly compelled towards a solitary life because it facilitated contemplative inner life which was for him the reality to be cultivated above all other . |
| 12 | She felt almost overwhelmed by a deep physical longing to leave this busy city — and the increasing tension of her life in Lady Wyndham 's house . |
| 13 | ‘ Similarly , a region which felt hard done by a national government does not really have a remedy within the commission or the Court of Justice . ’ |
| 14 | [ For bloodshed resulting from ethnic power struggles in 1963 and 1973 see pp. 20085-86 ; 25814 ; for massacres in Burundi in 1988 , where the Tutsi-dominated government had since embarked on a power-sharing experiment with the Hutu , see pp. 36328-29 . ] |
| 15 | Wijeratne 's other enemies included the Janata Vimukti Peramuna ( JVP ) , the Sinhalese group whose southern-based insurgency he had effectively destroyed in a ferocious campaign in late 1989 [ see pp. 37042 and 37353 ] , and the gambling industry , a casino operator having been deported in February . |
| 16 | The councils had effectively agreed to a ministerial veto in sensitive areas including ‘ matters liable significantly to involve ministers including highly contentious and politically sensitive matters of moment ’ . |
| 17 | The fetid stench of the darkened hut , the mind-dizzying rice alcohol , even Paul 's mocking laughter had all fused into a delicious composite memory now . |
| 18 | ( Over the past two days , the platoons had all competed in a punishing forced march against the clock , followed by a shooting match . ) |
| 19 | She and her husband had only moved to a government-sponsored caravan park south of Miami after Hurricane Andrew destroyed their home last August . |
| 20 | Clevedon Veals skipper Ray Bazeley had only planned for a small squad outing after their first choice match on the Nene at Peterborough was cancelled . |
| 21 | I was excited to use it since I had only painted onto a stretched canvas once before , and I stretched it eagerly and tightly . |
| 22 | Though dawn was approaching , he had only loomed as a huge shadow to her . |
| 23 | A constant eerie keening sound , which she had been only vaguely aware of until then , had suddenly risen to a blood-chilling shriek , before being abruptly cut off . |
| 24 | It was as if two distant times had suddenly met in a single second and two different women in a single gesture . |
| 25 | Maybe Matthew would look at her with fresh eyes , realize that the innocent freckled little creature he used to take swimming ( or riding , or bicycling or something ) had suddenly grown into a beautiful woman . |
| 26 | Lewis was enjoying that Tuesday , the day on which Morse had suddenly spurted into a frenetic flurry of activity . |
| 27 | The red stripes on the overall 's outer seams had long faded to a dull purple . |
| 28 | Bissett had once met the gaunt technician from A45 who had apparently received through a faulty glove a particle of plutonium the size of a pinhead and whose body had been cremated six months later before there could be an inquest . |
| 29 | A female cuckoo , ready to lay her egg , had apparently fixed on a particular reed warbler 's nest as her destination . |
| 30 | Mayr ( 1963 ) puts this more succinctly : " the different chromosome numbers and habitat preferences had apparently developed during a previous isolation of the 13- and 18-chromosome types without , however , leading to reproductive isolation . " |