Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For readers there were books and rooms set apart as libraries , and there were people who learnt a great deal and people who read furiously and learnt nothing . |
| 2 | For the first time Benny realised properly that they were going to live separate lives though in the same city . |
| 3 | So Sullivan recommended rather that the Shah enter the States through an obscure air force base in either Maine or South Caroline , and best of all at night , . |
| 4 | In fact , the legal force of any particular rule depends partly on the source of its authority ( essentially , whether it is supported by statute or not ) ; partly on the way it is drafted ( rules which are drafted in precise technical language are more likely to be given some legal force than are rules drafted loosely and non-technically ) ; and partly on its contents . |
| 5 | It was a ferociously aggressive world , and the Minoans lived successfully and competitively within it . |
| 6 | But he knew from experience it was often best with Blanche simply to answer a question she asked rather than seek to question why she posed it . |
| 7 | I then asked rather than erm wait for er Dr to come back , er we changed onto a different product which did n't involve conductivity but before doing that , I asked for ten pallets of to be run off with the nutrient mix reduced from two K Gs per metre to one point five K Gs per metre . |
| 8 | Intercourse is safe throughout pregnancy , unless you had a previous miscarriage , in which case it should be avoided during the first 14 weeks and avoided altogether if you have a history of miscarrying . |
| 9 | She fought bitterly as he came back to her . |
| 10 | Er yeah exclude your short story , otherwise it could mean on you know it could be taken out and sold somewhere and then in interest you would sell your own for selling your own word you know that could be a possibility . |
| 11 | I asked politely but coldly . |
| 12 | Fairley asked politely as they took the floor . |
| 13 | It will take a little practice to get right , but a tie made properly and firmly in this way will ‘ feel ’ right , and it will at once be clear how and why this method does a job that other methods and materials do not do . |
| 14 | [ I ] bFGF ( 1 µCi ) applied subcutaneously or intragastrically accumulated in two to threefold higher amounts in the ulcer area than in the intact mucosa , particularly in rats treated with sucralfate . |
| 15 | The only comprehensive attempt to measure venereal infection , which plainly had a strong connection with some kinds of extra-marital sex , revealed little except that in Prussia , not unexpectedly , it was much higher in the megalopolis Berlin than in any other province ( tending normally to diminish with the size of cities and villages ) , and that it reached its maximum in towns with ports , garrisons and institutes of higher education , i.e. with heavy concentrations of unmarried young men away from their homes . |
| 16 | ‘ How much sort of ? ’ she asked weakly as vague memories of vast station properties stirred . |
| 17 | The former met rarely and for purely formal purposes . |
| 18 | Here the shearmen fought vigorously and , as Dr Randall has demonstrated , with some success against two innovations . |
| 19 | Despite the backing of the LDP , in particular Hiroshi Mitsuzuka , chairman of the ruling party 's policy research council , the Ministry of Finance argued successfully that such changes require rewriting Japan 's finance laws . |
| 20 | However she did not work in isolation of the sales figures and shop reports , which she read avidly and , as she wrote to Moira : ‘ I feel that we hit it in many respects but we do n't seem to repeat the exciting things fast though . ’ |
| 21 | Dubois asked slowly as the Doctor ushered him and Petion back out . |
| 22 | It was a cold and damp winter , but he recovered slowly and indeed seemed cheerful ; he sat beside the open coal fire in the drawingroom and would sometimes sing music-hall ditties as his wife ministered to him — " coddling " , he used to call it . |
| 23 | Either the mental strategy worked or the weather became slowly but imperceptibly better , for I was not air-sick and have usually been a ‘ good sailor ’ by air or by sea ever since . |
| 24 | E coli and other enterobacteria were isolated on either Columbia horse blood or MacConkey agars ( Oxoid Ltd ) incubated aerobically or microaerobically at 37°C for between 18 and 48 hours . |
| 25 | Demand switched , from charters produced locally and confirmed by the attachment of a princely seal , to those written in a prince 's name by his own clerks in his writing office . |
| 26 | The funeral home had an extensive array of coffins , from handmade ones produced locally and beautifully finished to ornate caskets shipped in from America , some had fur linings . |
| 27 | ‘ You should know you 'll not change your father now and he means everything for the best for the whole house , ’ she argued forcibly but the strain was showing on her own drawn , anxious features . |
| 28 | The long day passed slowly and it grew very hot . |
| 29 | Time passed slowly and the men worried about their families and jobs . |
| 30 | Those five hours passed slowly and painfully , I was definitely going to miss my family and friends but I just wanted to go and have my holiday . |