Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked suddenly innocent and sat back in her seat , humming . |
| 2 | Oh he 's only twelve and ended up as one of the smallest birds |
| 3 | Was equipment easily available and set out for children ? |
| 4 | Under the old community the harvest was the climax of the rural year , not merely an incident in the more mechanical and depersonalized round on the farm as it has become today . |
| 5 | But it is always verbal and passed on in code from one member to another of various interlocking inner circles of the chattering classes . |
| 6 | One hot night he came home drunk and lay down on the flower-bed in the garden just outside the studio and fell fast asleep . |
| 7 | She pushed the gate further open and peered round in the twilight . |
| 8 | Inside-right John Jackson , 23 , came from Clyde for £1,000 , one of Leeds ' largest outlays , and Fred Blackman , described by the Yorkshire Post as ‘ possibly the most stylish and polished back in the Second Division ’ , was bought from Huddersfield Town . |
| 9 | Improved public health and hygiene measures — the " sanitary revolution " from the mid-years of the century — were also important and eliminated up to one-quarter of deaths between then and 197l . |
| 10 | By the late thirteenth century armies had very largely to be paid for , the feudal element being both small and hedged about with inconvenient restrictions on how long and where the cavalry might serve . |
| 11 | She walked out barefoot and turned up at her grandparents ' home in Speke with a sleeping bag wrapped around her . |
| 12 | A creature like man , completely lacking the inbred altruism seen , for instance , in the worker bee , might well rebel against the altruistic demands of his society if it were readily apparent to him that his altruism was profoundly hypocritical and made up of components of inhibited egoism , self-directed sadism ( e. g. guilt ) and de-sexualized libido ( e.g. ‘ social feeling ’ ) . |
| 13 | You see , he came from a family of ten lads and four lasses and food was the main object in their lives ; and if you were n't careful and hung on to your plate one or the other swiped it . ’ |
| 14 | For , as he explained , the point about literary sex is that it is invariably tacky and clichéd out of context , no matter how high-brow the author . |
| 15 | Her case suggests the potency of the ‘ self-fulfilling prophecy ’ ; she found maths increasingly difficult and ended up with a grade D A level . |
| 16 | If our English binge had been held in a medieval university we should have had , mixed with the bawdy songs , tragical and even devotional pieces , equally authorless and handed on from mouth to mouth in the same way , with the same individual variations . ’ |
| 17 | It started from something erm quite small and finished up with something fairly large really |
| 18 | These began around 1947 and went on for about two years . |
| 19 | What 's more they might have done him an injury if he had n't pulled off his cassock pretty smartish and turned back into Matt , which calmed them down . |
| 20 | This classic bob has been softly layered and highlighted through with delicate copper tones to add warmth , shine and movement |
| 21 | YOU sound very dissatisfied and weighed down by all that is happening in your life . |
| 22 | But when the slogans appeared on the wall of two mosques and camel dung was dropped on the entrance of one of them they were very angry and came back to Owen and said that these were godless young and should be put down . |
| 23 | Polly felt her stomach nerves flutter uneasily , but she had come too far and put up with too much to back down now . |
| 24 | She sat very upright and looked down at her green lap and the bronze toes of her boots , and the brown silk handbag on a gilt chain which contained a handkerchief , a phial of sal volatile and some of Aunt Emily 's calling cards in a mother of pearl case , since she had none of her own . |
| 25 | The bottom of it was very wide and came out into the moat . |
| 26 | They were much too wide and fell down over her hips , so she tore off a strip of petticoat to tie round her middle , tucking the other rag ribbons inside for warmth . |
| 27 | Some found the conflict too intense and retired back to the closet , perhaps for ever . |
| 28 | Prior Robert , still stonily silent and shocked out of his normal studied dignity , led away his shattered clerk to the second of the two penitentiary cells ; and it was the first time , as far as Cadfael could recall , that the two had ever been occupied at the same time . |
| 29 | Forty minutes was enough , but after a shower and a breakfast of fruit and cups of tea I felt very sprightly and strolled out to the row of shops nearby . |
| 30 | The big V remained big to the very last and went out with a flourish . |