Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Attlee and Greenwood were ready to accept the invitation , they did not do so at once but made sure that both the National Executive and the annual Conference , which were conveniently meeting at the same time , it being the Whit weekend , were fully consulted and in agreement with their acceptance of office . |
| 2 | ’ He did look at her then , rather sadly and searchingly as if he were going away for ever and wanted to remember what she looked like . |
| 3 | We left there soon after 3pm and had a lovely ride through the counryside to one of our favourite haunts , Heaven Farm , near Uckfield . |
| 4 | Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus arrived just before 6am and took more than two hours to bring the blaze under control . |
| 5 | She had turned away at once and gazed again out to sea . |
| 6 | And he 's coming down on all the way through there and he landed just across there and landed , I think he very . |
| 7 | TV raid : Ram raiders smashed a car through the front window of a Granada TV store in Westgate , Guisborough , yesterday at 5.40am and made off with more than £2,000 worth of video recorders . |
| 8 | ‘ Edwards rang Barnet yesterday at 1.40pm and asked to speak to Stan who was n't there . |
| 9 | After a minute or so , Ramsbum opened his eyes , gazed fixedly at Amiss and recited : |
| 10 | ‘ We worked from 9.15am to 5.30pm and got a slice of toast and a cup of tea when we arrived . |
| 11 | If he was born by then before then and lived in the village his name would be in the censors . |
| 12 | It passed almost at once and gave place to what seemed to him an assumed and slightly truculent indifference , but it had been there . |
| 13 | I closed my eyes tight for once and placed my palms together . |