Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary , my eldest sister , had taken the day off work and had washed the curtains but for lack of time to dry them properly had hung them back up wet . |
| 2 | In the end , it worked out very much better than expected , essentially because the two companies had outstanding chief executives , both of whom eventually succeeded me as chairman . |
| 3 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 4 | All of them eventually died of cardiac failure without the return to normal bowel function . |
| 5 | With them eventually came dashing British sports , like steeple chasing , cricket , golf and fox-hunting , the last of which had runs in the nearby countryside called ‘ Old England ’ , ‘ Leicestershire ’ and , best of all , as a concession to the French , ‘ Have Leicestershire ’ . |
| 6 | Nothing apparently happened for two months after the Institute 's delegation . |
| 7 | The air between them suddenly seemed static , as she fought for the words to justify her decision . |
| 8 | ‘ So one of them suddenly got rich , hey ? |
| 9 | And Karen last weekend , after you were sitting for them suddenly took ill on the Saturday I think , and Sheila was n't in any great shape , so he went back home er , from the office an over his lunch hour to see if he could just go and lend a hand , ge generally help out over his lunch hour . |
| 10 | And Dalglish must have gone into shock again as the side who have so far swept all before them suddenly surrendered their 100 per cent home record . |
| 11 | That did n't take them long did it ? |
| 12 | He got me so riled I lost a race this afternoon I should have won . |
| 13 | At the Council of Arminium forty-five years later , there were four British bishops , one of whom apparently paid his own way — which would seem to indicate some degree of prosperity . |
| 14 | Nothing so riled a sixteenth-century conquistadore as the knowledge that some men indulged in sodomy , and Balboa felt no compunction in setting the dreadful war-dogs on the culprits and having them tom to pieces in full public view . |
| 15 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 16 | The Italian government , concerned that the better things should remain in Italy , were delighted to hear that many of them only made the journey by canal from the Cannareggio to the piano nobile of the Palazzo Malpiero . |
| 17 | But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation . |
| 18 | The 1982 and 1984 BCS between them only uncovered two cases of attempted rape and 17 and 18 sexual assaults respectively ( Jones et al . |
| 19 | She says she was taken to the Plaza Hotel , to a party where Hoover sat in a fine black frock and insisted on being called ‘ Mary ’ ; after a while , he retired to the bedroom to be petted by two bought boys , one of whom prudently wore rubber gloves . |
| 20 | The friend who watched them together recalled : ‘ Camilla was not what one would call a truly beautiful woman . |
| 21 | The tug which had linked and drawn them together had gone . |
| 22 | The actual process of putting them together proved to be an awful lot more difficult than we first thought . |
| 23 | The Shah would gesticulate to him to stop it , but finally the Prince and his younger sister were allowed to perform a spirited disco dance while everyone below watched and the applauded . |
| 24 | She , Esther and Alix had known one another since their Cambridge days , and often met , but an evening with them necessarily excluded Charles : Esther and Alix did not much care for the world that Charles represented , and his presence inhibited all three of them . |
| 25 | Some of them obviously exceeded their duties in their zeal for examination improvement , as a memo of December 1942 makes clear : These examinations are to be regarded as a domestic affair of the Local Education Authorities for the conduct of which no responsibility must rest upon Inspectors … |
| 26 | It hoped that the involvement of neutral states like Austria , Sweden and Switzerland — all of whom obviously did not see membership as compromising their neutrality — would persuade the Soviet Union that the new association was sufficiently politically innocuous for Finland to be able to join it in the not too distant future . |
| 27 | And saying that , in the last three years I since discovered , and it was quite difficult to , which I did find , that there was alternative erm therapists , which was lots of groups that were going on and once I got into it erm the , it opened up a new , you know I ne I 've never saw the light at the tunnel that is shining brightly now ! |
| 28 | Whether or not Dom Pérignon added sugar is of little importance here , but it is likely that someone somewhere had engaged in the practice and , in all probability , the sugaring of wine may have been quite commonplace . |
| 29 | When I nervously entered the breakfast-room I looked up at — a black column ! |
| 30 | Derive an expression for the magnetic field H at a point P distant a from the centre line of a long thin conducting strip of width b ( Fig. 3.19 ) which carries a longitudinal current I uniformly distributed across its section . |