Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in the main town , we explored twisting alleys which eventually led us to the old Frankish quarter . |
| 2 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 3 | She was not there and after running frantically around the garden he eventually found her beside the old hanging tree at the bottom of the path . |
| 4 | And a decade later , when the term ‘ has-been ’ seemed almost an understatement , she not only gratefully accepted but gleefully flung herself into the high camp , Low Gothic shenanigans of Robert Aldrich 's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ? ( 1962 ) , in which , with a gloating relish that neither her baby-doll fright wig nor her impenetrable pancake make-up could conceal , she set about tormenting her immemorial screen rival and alter ego ( or egoist ) , Joan Crawford . |
| 5 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 6 | Sean recalled : ‘ I suddenly found myself on the same side as the shark and got out of the water as fast as I could . |
| 7 | Then , in the middle of the election campaign , he suddenly found himself among the accused . |
| 8 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |
| 9 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 10 | Ribble 's failure to provide the service paid for will have caused inconvenience , and distress to elderly residents of Scorton and perhaps involved them in the extra cost of missed appointments or expensive taxi fares . |
| 11 | The former England batsman also claimed that Donald was not a one-day cricketer and that Warwickshire only used him with the new ball in such games . |
| 12 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 13 | Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world . |
| 14 | Innocent of intrigue , Meredith suddenly discovered it in the dark depths of Lucenzo Salviati 's eyes . |
| 15 | Um well we did n't know what to do with the money , so we basically gambled it on the Grand National . |
| 16 | The king personally rewarded him with the Victorian Order , fourth class , but broke off relations when the disgruntled recipient of the decoration returned it the following day . |
| 17 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 18 | I only meant it for the best . |
| 19 | ‘ The sessions not only pointed me in the right direction for obtaining information , they taught me a lot about the sort of questions I should be asking . ’ |
| 20 | It obviously recognized him as the only being that had ever showed it kindness . |
| 21 | Manager Goodman quickly spotted that Harry 's lack of inches ( he only stood 5ft 6in ) were something of a handicap when playing down the middle in Second Division football and successfully transferred him to the outside-right spot . |
| 22 | ‘ And I just found myself in the right place at the right time ! ’ |
| 23 | They skirted the city , threading their way through the still-silent streets and , following the Prior 's careful directions , soon found themselves on the broad beaten approach to the port of Leith . |
| 24 | But I did n't tell her everything at first , I just told her about the first two instances . |
| 25 | Newcastle 's natural nervousness soon reasserted itself for the French had clearly not abandoned their plan and had even managed to bring the transports at Nantes , on the River Loire , to join those further up the coast at Vannes in the Gulf of Morbihan , about midway between St Nazaire and Lorient . |
| 26 | In my maths in school we just finished them on the last day . |
| 27 | Starting each hymn on the right note was a great problem for most of us , but I found that if I did not think too deeply about this but started off almost instinctively I generally hit something like the right note , thanks to my years as a choir boy in Maidenhead . |
| 28 | No problem though for Tony he just hit it to the other side . |
| 29 | He pointed up the fairway and said : ‘ Just hit it at the wee stone marker . ’ |
| 30 | But she no longer treated him with the old irritable dismissiveness ; she knew of Edouard 's reputation as a businessman , and obviously had heard his abilities praised , for she now regarded him warily , as if trying to decide whether , after all , she might have been wrong , and her younger son might be of use to her . |