Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After snarling a few choice remarks at them from the corners of our mouths , such as , ‘ Get lost ! ’ or ‘ Beat it ! ’ , which we understood to be good American for , ‘ Please go away , we do not wish for company , ’ we managed to rid ourselves of a few of them , but two of the most persistent followed us until we were clear of the town , and then we realised that the only way to be left alone was for us to be really rude . |
| 2 | From the roof rafter of the most stable hung their ‘ bundle ’ swing . |
| 3 | Most importantly this project is a microcosm of the best of the Highlander ideas — the people who were most disadvantaged pooled their energies into a collective involvement which identified the sort of information which they needed in order to take further action . |
| 4 | So extensive did his collection become that he built a special picture gallery at Northwick Park in 1832 , and some years later he acquired Thirlestane House in Cheltenham , the 1846 guide to which listed over 500 pictures . |
| 5 | I shuddered , the very thought of anyone being so foolish baffled me , the steps were so rotten that it would n't have taken any weight to have snapped them and sent anyone plunging down causing a bad injury . |
| 6 | So popular did they become , that their decoration , usually with scraps , became one of the amateur arts to loved by Victorian ladies . |
| 7 | The elder Pinney , owner of the largest sugar plantations in Nevis , would certainly have been less pliable had he realized that his sons were allowing the new tenants to have Racedown rent-free ; but in the event he quickly warmed to the young poet , and welcomed him as a guest to the family 's town house in Bristol during the autumn of 1795 , the period which first brought Wordsworth into contact with both Coleridge and Southey.7sup18 ; |
| 8 | It is just that it could have been more meaningful and less unpleasant had it felt a touch more like a pilgrimage than a harsh , faceless drive for productivity . |
| 9 | So lively did it get on occasions that Bishop Story had to order the pilgrims to carry crosses and banners in 1478 instead of the coloured staves with which they were prone to hit each other at the height of their religious fervour . |
| 10 | In fact , so contemptible did I find his dismissal of my judgement as to what constitutes talent on the football field , that I flatly refused the £200,000 fee they were willing to pay for Colin Webley and let the useless git go on a free transfer ! |
| 11 | She would have been less relieved had she known that the second girl had been attacked by an ex-boyfriend , who had been arrested . |
| 12 | It 's possible her daughter-in-law 's injuries would not have been so serious had she done the same . |
| 13 | She was a woman who trusted her senses , and to discover them so deceptive distressed her . |
| 14 | Another recently asked my advice about the finer points of his own computer program so that he might catalogue more accurately his card collection , so vast had it become ( if any one has a mint Drummahoe No 1 , he would be most indebted ) . |
| 15 | This would have been so easy had they dug narrow trenches , the practice of the past , as this method can produce only scraps of unrelated evidence . |
| 16 | So Soapy left his seat , and walked slowly along the street . |
| 17 | Perkin 's absence was to me almost a shock , so accustomed had I become to his being there . |
| 18 | Mike added : ‘ Feel so Fine taught us a lot about how the music business works which we 've now put into practice — like having a good distributor for the single . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's in there , ’ she said , and something so sad and so wistful entered her voice that Caspar , who was by no means insensitive , looked at her more intently . |
| 20 | So feeble had my efforts become that my last entry was concerned with nothing less than my manner of dribbling . |
| 21 | So great had his concentration been on finishing the maps that Green had had little time to do anything else in those difficult years excepting for a brief visit to Buttermere in 1791 , and in 1793 he went to Wales and the Lake District with his stalwart helper Thornton ; but in 1794 he revisited Cumberland for twelve weeks two of which were devoted to Buttermere . |
| 22 | The public would have been less impressed had it known the facts . |
| 23 | Cessation of hostilities reduced its political weight , but so effective had it been in the 1918 election and so important was the ex-servicemen 's vote , that it could have been played a while longer . |
| 24 | There was something in his face that had no right to be there , and the fact that it was so unexpected made it hard for her to recognise ; but recognise it she did , and its presence bewildered her . |
| 25 | thinking , where is he , and then he came back I was so angry made me sick , because |
| 26 | She turned from him and went out of the room , across the hall and pulled open the front door , which she did n't bother to close behind her , so angry did she feel . |
| 27 | He could have done with something , fish and chips even , but the place was so goddamn countrified they probably did n't rise to things like that . |
| 28 | It did not please him ; almost he wished the first pledge back again , so naked did he feel now without his armour of obstinacy . |
| 29 | Seeing BMW today you might think its success was preordained , so crystal clear is the company 's model development , so single minded its pursuit of those qualities now synonymous with BMW . |
| 30 | The public at home would have been rightly outraged had we not taken this action , while the lessons that would have been drawn by other countries overseas were incalculable . |