Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many blamed the coming of sound not only for its enormous expense and for making producers rely on highly conventionalized and , by their very nature , static plots of theatrical origin , but also for taking all the essential fantasy out of film-going . |
| 2 | In sum , a working hypothesis is that powerlessness , or ‘ lack of control over destiny ’ , produces a susceptibility to ill-health for people who live in chronically marginalized and demanding situations . |
| 3 | One tiny window up high showed that it was light outside . |
| 4 | That lady up there said that we have experiments , I 'm sure , human experiments , you know , experiments , sorry , on human people |
| 5 | Oh , hydra-headed wrongness that should spring up again redoubled when ‘ t is smitten down ! ’ |
| 6 | And still the faint red light up ahead came and went by fits and starts , leading them on across gale-swept open moorland , through massively still pine forests , up exposed dirt tracks and over passes whose names had vanished with the inhabitants of the farms where until a few decades earlier generation after generation of human beings had eked out lives of almost unimaginable deprivation . |
| 7 | Official figures out yesterday indicated that British consumers saved at the lowest rate for 31 years while living standards actually declined 0.6 per cent between the first and second quarters of the year . |
| 8 | With a good break for lunch they came out fully recharged and in fighting spirit for the afternoon 's W. Byers Shield , a competition based on the Stableford system . |
| 9 | The fast disappearing figures of the two girls waved back then disappeared as the bike took a left hand bend . |
| 10 | But now that the Nineties are in full swing , has anyone out there discovered that the phones have stopped jangling , their Filofax is miraculously blank , or the traffic clogging our roads has withered to a trickle ? |
| 11 | All he did was throw up a question mark — was Britain doing the right thing ? — but to us it was the first sign that someone out there thought that government strategy might be wrong . |