Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I waited most for whoever had acted Lily . |
| 2 | ‘ He told me a little about what happened to you in the States , ’ I encouraged . |
| 3 | ‘ Whenever I used to feel on top of the world , I would just open my mouth and sing , and not care too much about what came out , ’ remembered Kylie . |
| 4 | He was clearly embarrassed about what had occurred , but at first was unwilling to say much about what had happened . |
| 5 | What was really wrong with Eldorado was that nobody really cared much about what happened to the characters . |
| 6 | Noticing the creative/fantasy element in their talk , the teacher encouraged them , once the castle was finished , to make up a story together about what happened in the castle , while she wrote their ideas down for them . |
| 7 | It sets the scene perhaps for it said it is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich and he adds no sorrow to it . |
| 8 | Now I suppose it 'll be all about what went wrong with Villa . |
| 9 | A dreadful tragic place — elderly rheumatics dressing for dinner at the hotel ; artists not good enough ; beach-combers not young enough nor well enough off It filled me with pity and terror . |
| 10 | And welcome to the lunch time phone in with me John Simpson , and I 'm here through till erm one o'clock as you heard . |
| 11 | Everything continues more or less as it had before , and it becomes increasingly evident that Jesus 's death has accomplished nothing . |
| 12 | Leaving everything more or less as it had been and closing the drawer , she turned her attention to the rest of the room . |
| 13 | She could n't blame him entirely for what had happened . |
| 14 | ‘ Put me down , ’ she whispered through dry lips , and only after what seemed an eternity did he slowly lower her to one side . |
| 15 | If the person who owned the book , regardless of who got stuff of the book |
| 16 | As far as he was concerned , both she and her sister were two of a kind — cheap and unprincipled , living for the moment , regardless of who got hurt in the process . |
| 17 | Under the terms of the new law ( much of which remained classified ) covert action was defined as any " activity or activities of the United States government to influence political , economic or military conditions abroad , where it is intended that the role of the United States government will not be acknowledged or apparent " . |
| 18 | This is partly because , at least in the cases of Montenegro and Kosovo , large foreign loans were raised for investments in infrastructure and heavy industry ( much of which turned out to be unprofitable ) . |
| 19 | On most of the nationalisation stock ( paid to compensate former owners ) and earlier long-term borrowings they inherited at nationalisation ( much of it raised at the low interest rates of the 1930s ) they paid only 3 per cent . |
| 20 | The lottery of life is an enticing work — not least in showing how one of the most exciting sectors of applied biomedical science in the 1990s rests on the curiosity-oriented work ( much of it conducted in Cambridge , England ) of the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 21 | The position of Agnos had been undermined by a large budget deficit ( much of it inherited ) , the effects of the country 's economic recession and the legacy of the 1989 earthquake [ see pp. 36970-71 ] . |
| 22 | Jimmy-One-Arm … a great many people who played unwarily against him died unexpectedly in their early forties . |
| 23 | If one failed to arrive in response to his appeals he felt ‘ bitterly , bitterly sad ’ , alone like someone shipwrecked , ‘ absolutely cut off from the outer world ’ . |
| 24 | For comparison purposes , there are fundamentally two choices , ie either the attainment levels can be assessed against an agreed target , or relative comparisons can be made , eg against what happened in the past if records are available , or what is happening at the start of the exercise compared with what happens at selected future points in time , effectively establishing better or worse levels , as summarised in Fig 13.6 . |
| 25 | Much like it did . |
| 26 | Of course , the price and income range varied , and so with it did the ‘ life-style ’ — a term for which the Fifties were still groping . |
| 27 | So up it went higher . |
| 28 | The second concerned the shops ; ‘ They were still like a jumble sale inside with everything crammed on the rails . ’ |
| 29 | Ace looked up from where she was starting to fit the parts together into what looked like a home-made machine gun . |
| 30 | All the years of waiting and longing and wondering poured together into his braced hands and poised , quivering feet . |