Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corner goes in deep Pearce getting up well and Ward got up better than anyone and good safe hands as well by the keeper . |
| 2 | Labour may also gamble that Scottish Liberal Democrats — who in the last parliament made up almost half Mr Ashdown 's party — will be reluctant to vote down a government which is trying to legislate for a Scottish assembly elected by proportional representation . |
| 3 | Nutty rode on hopefully , but when she got to the gate Mrs Smith was backing out in a large yellow Range Rover and glared at having to give way to a mere equestrian . |
| 4 | Haverford got up early , sat in the garden jotting away until , as often as not , Don Marco arrived in a small rattling car and took him off on an unknown errand . |
| 5 | An intriguing , though not widely accepted notion is that the first large organic molecules arose in very special circumstances , such as the hot springs ( hydrothermal vents ) that well up from volcanoes at the bottom of the sea . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've done nothing to hurt him , ’ Fernando argued back vehemently . |
| 7 | The genesis of political consciousness towards conservation programmes arose in very different circumstances , but its development has been moving in the same directions as family planning programmes . |
| 8 | This chapter has shown the steps that can be taken to ensure that a direct file is optimized , and if the file designer follows the rules laid down here , good results should be obtained in almost any situation . |
| 9 | He was made a trusty and the other prisoners got on well with him . |
| 10 | Biddy switched Jazz to Midnight , and Jazz got round all right . |
| 11 | ‘ The bike skidded on past ahead of me and I followed it in to the side of the road . |
| 12 | So competition for markets from the cheaper products made on newly installed machinery would hold price increases down to the existing rate . |
| 13 | The average waiting time for trial at Crown Court was 56 days in 1989 , and in that year remand prisoners made up just over one-fifth of the average prison population . |
| 14 | Dr Tom McManus of the IIRS got up again to say that an assistant to Dr Selikoff at Mount Sinai had told him they were unable to associate any increase in asbestos-related disease to exposure below 100 nanograms , while 100,000 was considered tolerable in a factory ! |
| 15 | Many years later Alison behaved in exactly the same way . |
| 16 | Importantly , too , it helps you understand the often alien terminology used in today 's teaching . |
| 17 | The board bent over backwards to help me raise funds for players and it 's been the same for Nigel Best . |
| 18 | An extra £2 billion flooded into the market as the top 100 share index rose by over 13 points . |
| 19 | Between 1986 and 1990 the UK deficit with Germany rose by over £1 billion , although this has temporarily improved . |
| 20 | Frances moved over positively to switch on the radio . |
| 21 | The tests in Malaysia came in response to complaints about foreign objects found in previously unopened packets : a fishing hook , a needle , cockroach eggs , rat droppings and various unidentified stains . |
| 22 | South West bounced back again with a try from Jeremy Guscott and completed their triumph with a Jon Webb penalty . |
| 23 | The bells crashed out again , I went quietly into the Church myself , carrying Heather . |
| 24 | Ramblers protesting near his estate said that they were watched by a large group of men with dogs and sticks in evidence , but the demonstration passed off peaceably . |
| 25 | The history of the poor law between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries was one of attempts to make this formula work — for local initiative with broad guidelines laid down centrally — despite social changes . |
| 26 | The big truck shuddered to a halt , spraying gravel from under its locked wheels , as Rocky tramped down hard on the brakes . |
| 27 | When , at last , she managed to speak , the words fluttered out so faintly that Melissa had to strain to catch them . |
| 28 | The words drawled out sleepily but there was enough light from the window now to see that his eyes were open , watching me . |
| 29 | The Juventus player 's display was one of the few bright spots as England made heavy work of beating a San Marino side made up mainly of part-time players , including postmen , bus drivers and newsagents . |
| 30 | Won thing we should tell you is that last summer Benitses sold out fast . |