Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meal was finished , his father had returned to the newspaper , rather deflated at his family 's lack of appreciation of his vice-presidency , and his mother had finished her ice cream and was rising from the table . |
| 2 | The dissolution of CENTO left ASEAN as the primary multilateral body of states in Asia predominantly oriented towards the Western powers in its security outlook and ties . |
| 3 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 4 | In February 1940 at the Labour Exchange at Devizes , I duly registered for military service . |
| 5 | MP for 20 years , when he successfully fought against the closure of Shildon wagon works . |
| 6 | He ignored this and leisurely got into his undershirt . |
| 7 | Michael Banks clutched at his chest and slowly tottered to his knees . |
| 8 | He looked at his master rather anxiously as he spoke , and Cornelius Fennell , catching that warning eye , perversely asked for another piece . |
| 9 | People rarely asked for your invitation card . |
| 10 | Zborowski supplied the charcoal , paints , canvas , and brushes ; he also hired the models ( Modigliani insisted that they must be paid three to five francs an hour ) and any accessories , although the painter rarely asked for anything but the human figure for his work . |
| 11 | But the social tact of the Masai was most impressively demonstrated by the fact that they rarely asked for anything . |
| 12 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 13 | Joe Maitland his boss was very often out buying and selling and he rarely interfered with the running of the store . |
| 14 | But then , encouraged by her parents , she slowly got to grips with her studies . |
| 15 | He remained there for a few seconds then slowly got to his feet and moved to the door leading into the hallway . |
| 16 | She slowly got to her feet , her eyes wide with fear . |
| 17 | Then I slowly got to my feet and they all started laughing happily as if I was n't dead after all . |
| 18 | Peter glowered back at his brother , then slowly got to his feet . |
| 19 | Bradford slowly got into the game and nearly took the lead when Mark Prudhoe could only parry a piledriver from Mike Duxbury , then punched the ball away from the onrushing Sean McCarthy . |
| 20 | Bradford slowly got into the game and nearly took the lead when Mark Prudhoe could only parry a piledriver from Mike Duxbury , then punched the ball away from the onrushing Sean McCarthy . |
| 21 | After about 20 years of critical success which rarely translated into public acclaim , his new novel , Affliction ( Picador , £12.95 ) , has hit big in the US . |
| 22 | The Bishops of Rochester now mostly lived at their Palace at Rochester or Lambeth , the houses at Halling and Trottescliffe being allowed to decay owing to the expense of maintaining them . |
| 23 | Thomson was born in Kansas City in 1896 , studied at Harvard , and then mostly lived in Paris until 1940 . |
| 24 | She mostly lived in the country and she was rich . |
| 25 | My relationship with Crossman eventually became in some ways a comic one . |
| 26 | The UN Security Council on Nov. 29 approved Resolution 678 authorizing member governments to use " all necessary means " to ensure Iraq 's complete withdrawal from Kuwait , if by a deadline of Jan. 15 , 1991 , the Iraqis had not already done so and thereby complied with the UN 's previous resolutions . |
| 27 | Er , and I got up and I protested about it , on the grounds that if they could n't run a great big pop hall for , and I wholly agreed with the idea , of of them providing the facility . |
| 28 | Although I duly applied for the Fellowship , I was unsuccessful , no doubt to my lasting benefit , as similar failures have served to prove . |
| 29 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 30 | On a minor , but parallel line , from the 1740s onwards the aesthetic rich began building rustic , Gothick and Chinese garden houses and this picturesque style slowly crept into small house architecture . |