Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Produce letters that are recognisably formed and properly oriented and that have clear ascenders and descenders where necessary . |
| 2 | That feeling lasted a while but after we 'd had the children something changed and I slowly realized that I did n't love her anymore . |
| 3 | So long as you keep the Looms properly oiled and follow the rules you ca n't really go far wrong . |
| 4 | It politely requested that , for security reasons , I bring my ship down to Underlight speed at specific co-ordinates , at a specific time , and prepare for rendezvous with the Emissary 's ship . |
| 5 | The courts have recently demonstrated a reaction against an absurdly over-generous approach to the construction of agreements in the employee 's favour : see Home Counties Dairies Ltd v Skilton [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 526 in which the defendant was employed by the plaintiffs as a milkman and he expressly agreed that for a period of one year after his employment terminated he would not 'serve or sell milk or dairy produce " to any person who had been a customer of his employers and who had been served by him during the six months prior to his leaving . |
| 6 | Whilst Whigs of all complexions signed with no hesitation , the Country Tories were much more reluctant to swear allegiance in such unqualified terms , although many eventually complied when signing was made compulsory . |
| 7 | However , the LF eventually relented and began the process of disarming on April 30 . |
| 8 | I knew in one case that every Saturday morning I would get a letter from a lad who was having a very trying time at an operational training unit , and he begged me week after week , I eventually relented and brought him back ; he nearly went through and completed a second Pathfinder tour . |
| 9 | Badly lamed and afterwards only able to walk with the help of a stick , Patterson was no longer of use to the Navy . |
| 10 | Though he can not be more than five or six , he wears a man 's anorak , badly zipped and uneven , a heap of purple fabric tilted to one side and a small freckled shoulder bare on the other . |
| 11 | It was she who eventually recommended that Laura go to a college she knew of — one where she would find an environment supportive of her experience . |
| 12 | Dan Rather asked if Hussein would withdraw from Kuwait . |
| 13 | He ducked under the thief 's sword arm and brought his own blade around in an arc so incompetently misjudged that it hit the man flat-first and jolted out of the wizard 's hand . |
| 14 | I do n't know what I think in view of what you say , Mary , go into to great detail as to what went wrong with this , erm because I can cut that short because the fact is that Russell eventually admitted that this programme simply was n't viable . |
| 15 | When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train . |
| 16 | He was now in close touch with the Revd M. J. Berkeley [ q.v. ] , the ‘ father ’ of British mycology , whom he eventually succeeded as Britain 's leading mycologist , but whom he always acknowledged as his master . |
| 17 | It eventually got that they were typed and put into cellophane covers which made it a lot easier . |
| 18 | Nonetheless Count Christoph Douglas , head of Sotheby 's in Germany , declared that he has ‘ complete confidence in Berlin ’ as a location and with the level and amount of bidding at the sale , some of it keenly fought and much of it this time conducted by telephone . |
| 19 | John slowly rose and sat at the table where he was soon joined by the two women . |
| 20 | Ignoring her , the captain ordered his men to carry the body aft , and the woman eventually rose and hobbled after them , still sobbing piteously . |
| 21 | This road we also notice leads from King 's Road [ Pancras Way ] as a back entrance to Professor Coleman 's residence and garden , and to his stable , coach-house and kennel for his dogs — which , however , we understood he rarely used except in the shooting season . |
| 22 | I also removed a Building Society book in the name of Francis Maclean , which I reckoned had about £450 in the account , and an Access card in the same name which I rarely used and certainly had nearly a grand 's worth of credit on it . |
| 23 | In 1775 Percival Pott recognized that scrotal cancers rarely occurred except in chimney-sweeps , an observation which has become famous as one of the earliest records of an industrial cancer . |
| 24 | Are the spine and boards badly scuffed or rubbed ? ( the euphemistically-minded cataloguer may say ‘ chafed ’ , the French , more elegantly , ‘ tired ’ ) . |
| 25 | He eventually found that the ideal mix was 55 per cent Polled Lincoln Red , 35 per cent Polled Beef Shorthorn ( he had also succeeded in polling the latter ) and 10 per cent Aberdeen Angus , which improved the qualities he desired without reducing size and liveweight gains . |
| 26 | Some tests done in was n't there , in one of those prisons , and I think they tried with very violent , very aggressive er , prisoners there , and it , they eventually found that the colours that calmed them down most of all was pink . |
| 27 | If she walked out , then he would be unable to follow her unless he 'd brought back-up with him , and somehow she rather doubted that he had . |
| 28 | ‘ I wanted to spend some time with you , and I rather doubted if you 'd be susceptible to an offer of a weekend in Paris . |
| 29 | Their main duty was to arrest wanted persons ; they rarely reported or investigated crime during the early years of colonial rule . |
| 30 | Armed with walkie-talkies so we could trail her progress at a distance , we waited until noon when she nervously approached and then eagerly ate all her dinner , with the added sedatives . |