Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You heard that ? ’ asked Morse sharply . |
| 2 | ‘ Did she love him ? ’ asked Morse gently . |
| 3 | ‘ Who is it ? ’ asked Morse quietly . |
| 4 | He was beaten by an innings , scoring only 3 and 31 to his opponent 's 75 , but in 1833 , when Yorkshire played their first county match against Norfolk , he met Bradbury again and ‘ exhibited such ability with the bat that he almost ran his opponent off his legs . ’ |
| 5 | Boeing has issued a warning to airlines to check the pins after 3,000 take-offs , while before the crash they recommended checks only after more than 5,000 . |
| 6 | GA Property Services produced deficit only marginally higher at $12.1m ( $11.9m loss ) after reporting reduced losses in Q3 . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's a big girl , ’ agreed Lefevre appreciatively . |
| 8 | It was explained to the women 's meeting which took this decision that " times had changed since the inauguration , that the cost of travel made meetings now almost impossible and that with the formation of local branches of the BDDA there was not the same need for the Auxiliary " . |
| 9 | It made Times just look super elegant , you know , and yah I , that 's what 's wrong with all the foundries now , they forgot where they came from . |
| 10 | ‘ But why did he ? ’ asked Scarlet again . |
| 11 | ‘ What are you doing here ? ’ asked Marcus crossly . |
| 12 | ‘ Like where ? ’ asked Victoria incuriously . |
| 13 | ‘ Is there any well known author you do n't know already with whom you 'd like to spend all the time I have to spend with him ? ’ asked Roger plaintively . |
| 14 | They made slow progress and as there was no reason for haste they soon made camp again and this time were particularly careful to conceal themselves and their horses among the trees well away from the ride ; they also arranged for watches through the night which they had not done before . |
| 15 | To illustrate this one has only to look at the account of a pupil pursuit in a school which had thought through clearly its broad curriculum and made plans accordingly . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's got ta be the right thing to do , ’ agreed Mueller readily . |
| 17 | Conservative interests sought their own way of picturing the order of Nature , preferring images that admitted change only within the framework of a divinely preordained plan of creation . |
| 18 | This competition made conflicts more likely and meant that in any conflict rival groups of Indians would be involved ; those who traded with the French would support them , and their enemies would support the British , so that Indian skirmishing inland played a larger part in the fighting of the 1740s than in previous wars . |
| 19 | ‘ All right , Charles , ’ asked Frances softly , ‘ when was the last one ? ’ |
| 20 | Whatever his faults from the perspective of Amnesty International , those very same blots on his reputation were what made Romania much more credit-worthy than many less brutal regimes . |
| 21 | You got rules here |
| 22 | She tied up her ribbons and laid William gently in the cradle before saying , ‘ I think he will sleep now . |
| 23 | ‘ As I was saying , I 'd pushed their occupancy rates up by 40 per cent by the time I left , and headed up a worldwide promotional campaign that got Mandarin more free press exposure than ever before . |
| 24 | In Pomerania the average holding was about 5 hectares ( 13–14 acres ) of very poor soil , and even with Herculean effort on the part of the farmer it was clear that the payment of one sixth of profits made purchase almost impossible . |
| 25 | Dare n't lo stick my fingers in too much , he might bite me , cos he got teeth now Well they 're all in there scrambled up together Oh there 's Bernie and Jeff . |
| 26 | Not got buns now chocolate pies |
| 27 | ‘ Probably , ’ agreed Pascoe gloomily . |
| 28 | THE University of Southampton announced plans yesterday to more than double its student numbers over the next 35 years by building an additional campus . |
| 29 | In Chapter 14 we introduced the concept of a forward market , in which buyers and sellers made contracts today for goods to be delivered in the future at a price agreed today . |
| 30 | The same existential emphasis made Fanon acutely aware that oppositional identities emerge not simply against , but from within , the terms of their oppression . |