Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first edition of his textbook , intended mainly for lawyers and police officers , became widely popular also among scientists and technicians interested in forensic problems . |
| 2 | She became suddenly aware again of the man sitting beside her . |
| 3 | Mr Dods , of Coatham House Farm , Coatham Mundeville , said : ‘ When I was young I would barely get on a bus on my own but I got so much out of Young Farmers . |
| 4 | Yes , yes , do you think that one of the reasons that they , that they became less popular apart from fashion was that , that they , erm wo that , that you had , the way that you cleaned them , that they caught the dust or |
| 5 | A recent survey found only three out of ten women started a business of the same type they had worked in previously . |
| 6 | However , their tests found only 2 out of the 183 possible risk premiums to be significantly different from zero . |
| 7 | To my utter astonishment the motion was passed unanimously and thereafter , and to my lesser astonishment , completely ignored ; at a by-election at Pollok the Liberal candidate devoted just ten out of the 150 lines of his election address to it and came bottom of the Poll . |
| 8 | If there had been a fire the tragedy was doubly sickening ; frequently there was not a fire and it all seemed so unreal rather like some still life tableau . |
| 9 | The hesitancy of the vigilantes seemed only due now to mutual dislike , which would soon resolve itself one way or another . |
| 10 | It seemed hardly large enough for a child . |
| 11 | He seemed more sober out from behind the wheel . |
| 12 | The same year 1960 , saw the Pedler 's retire to live in the flat over the Ladies ' room , although Bill still involved himself helping his replacement — Derek Craik — who came as Assistant shortly before Bill 's retirement ( replacing Keith Mercer , an earlier assistant brought in on the crest of the membership boom ) . |
| 13 | The path seemed otherwise smooth enough with a no-redundancy policy having been agreed . |
| 14 | It seemed faintly sinful not to be at work on a weekday . |
| 15 | Smoking for women became socially acceptable only in the 1939 — 45 war and after . |
| 16 | THE doors of the Queen 's dressmaker Norman Hartnell opened as normal yesterday despite receivers having been called in . |
| 17 | Andrew Beattie arrived around 9.00 a.m. at Central Strike Headquarters . |
| 18 | ‘ 12 ’ Passed as suitable only for exhibition to persons of 12 or over . |
| 19 | ‘ 15 ’ Passed as suitable only for exhibition to persons of 15 years or over . |
| 20 | ‘ 18 ’ Passed as suitable only for exhibition to adults . |
| 21 | ‘ I became really sick here for the first time and did n't know what was going on , ’ he recalls . |
| 22 | Civic disturbances increase , but prompted as much probably by impatience as anything else . |
| 23 | My doorbell rang about ten o'clock on the Friday evening before Christmas . |
| 24 | In practice , he or she became increasingly dependent also on ministers for advice . |
| 25 | As radio caught on , politicians became increasingly aware also of the latent , intangible influence of the medium and its possible danger if unchecked . |
| 26 | When they came out of it they often grew crazily rapturous simply at returning to ‘ a world of colour , meadows and flowers and woods … where rain on the roofs sounds like a harmonic music ’ |
| 27 | Besides — and in the way the French Army of those days functioned it is hard to believe such considerations did not pass through Joffre 's mind — if things went badly wrong henceforth at Verdun , the Generalissimo 's responsibility would now be shared by another . |
| 28 | I felt right faint then for a minute . |
| 29 | In fact , something went technically wrong almost at once . |
| 30 | She felt absurdly safe here with Felipe de Santis , grieved that he wanted to get rid of her . |