Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually found that the ideal mix was 55 per cent Polled Lincoln Red , 35 per cent Polled Beef Shorthorn ( he had also succeeded in polling the latter ) and 10 per cent Aberdeen Angus , which improved the qualities he desired without reducing size and liveweight gains . |
| 2 | Some tests done in was n't there , in one of those prisons , and I think they tried with very violent , very aggressive er , prisoners there , and it , they eventually found that the colours that calmed them down most of all was pink . |
| 3 | I suddenly realized that the surrounding buildings were full of soldiers — and then the shooting began . |
| 4 | He suddenly realized that the impact of this too-vivid memory had slowed him down and finally arrested him in the middle of the wet pavement Two girls in a shop-doorway were staring at him and giggling . |
| 5 | The trees shook , even the ground beneath me shook , as I suddenly realised that a salvo of heavy shells was passing over at tree height , and everyone — including the prisoners — scattered in the direction of the dug-outs ; the salvo hit the ground a short distance away with an almighty roar , the explosions throwing debris over a wide area . |
| 6 | Gazing down below me , I suddenly realised that a huge curtain of mist and rain has swept across the water and was fast obscuring the tundra below . |
| 7 | He suddenly realised that the French really did believe that he was here on a secret and delicate diplomatic mission on Edward I 's behalf , that his interest in Alexander III 's death was mere drapery , a trick to conceal his true task . |
| 8 | As she spoke she suddenly realised that the whole thing made sense simply because of that , the only thing that mattered . |
| 9 | Then reality returned with a rush as she suddenly realised that the music had stopped and that they were the only couple still left on the floor . |
| 10 | Mowbray 's hand fell to his sword hilt as he realised that great brass tongue only tolled when the Tower was under attack . |
| 11 | Now it so chanced that the king of the country passed through Marko 's village , and he saw the golden-fleeced ram and set his heart on it . |
| 12 | Even the speaker who was to tie the whole thing together admitted that the monkey data would be put to better use in various studies on the general subject of immunoregulation . |
| 13 | It should hardly be necessary to mention that every partners ' meeting should be duly and sufficiently minuted and the minute approved at the next meeting . |
| 14 | How do you think they would react if I suddenly announced that the new man in my life is the man who ditched my sister five years ago ? ’ |
| 15 | Following this move of the ducal seat the palazzo fell into disuse and disrepair , a state from which it only recovered when the Spanish governors took it over many years later . |
| 16 | And Thiercelin wondered whether of all the men in the Grand Army , he alone realized that the charmless , unpopular Davout was a better soldier , and a better man , than the emperor , and might have served as an example to princes , had he only possessed a little more humanity . |
| 17 | She only realised that the meal had ended when Piers summoned across for the bill . |
| 18 | He only maintained that the present forms of Church government which the laws of the land had established were such as ‘ No law of God nor reason had proved them to do ill . ’ |
| 19 | Virginia was staring at Horatia , her lips almost blue , her pupils so dilated that the eyes looked black . |
| 20 | He merely maintained that the non-recurrence of the same complexes of qualities was a probability , not a certainty . |
| 21 | Main shock and aftershocks together demonstrated that the fault runs north-south . |
| 22 | She said she and another officer had been pursuing a red Ford Sierra car on the road between the villages of Hillam and Burton , North Yorkshire , when it suddenly stopped and a gunman got out . |
| 23 | ‘ Miss Pritchard only stopped when the officers put their siren on . |
| 24 | We only stopped when the weather made it impossible : the snow confused us and we could n't find our way . |
| 25 | The major limb bones also showed signs of erosion , particularly of prominent ridges and crests , but breakage did not occur until very advanced stages of abrasion when the bone was worn right through across a prominence , and this only occurred after the bones were extensively rounded . |
| 26 | This only occurred while the current was flowing . |
| 27 | High increments in gastric juice ascorbate concentrations only occurred if the subjects had final plasma vitamin C concentrations above approximately 30 µmol/l . |
| 28 | In comparison with the inhibition effect , however , this facilitation only occurred when the subject was given a relatively long time to read the context . |
| 29 | Mungo could not understand how the price constantly rose while no one seemed to bid . |
| 30 | It swiftly transpired that the document handed to the fathers for discussion was not that drawn up by the Preparatory Commission , but one revised by members of the Commission who were also members of the curia . |