Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] and [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here there was a delay , for Fiver — surrounded on all sides by the quiet summer evening — became helpless and almost paralysed with fear . |
| 2 | They became friendly and eventually fell in love . |
| 3 | It was not until the Local Government Act of 1889 and the Burgh Police Act of 1892 that the Scottish spelling ‘ Burgh ’ became universal and firmly established in Scotland . |
| 4 | Domestic ovens are not constructed to take continual punishment : the door might be opened and closed over 50 times a day , frequently slammed shut and generally abused by the busy caterer . |
| 5 | Rory made left and right turns in quick succession , seemed to go back on himself , seemed at times to be driving blind . |
| 6 | Reports about light aircraft landing accidents often say that the aircraft bounced or ballooned , pitched nose-down and then flew into the runway in a series of worsening crashes , smashing the nose gear and engine . |
| 7 | She spent little and even caring for her lodgers generously she did not need half the income she found she earned . |
| 8 | A figure appeared , running past the blaze and stumbling his way to the gate , which boomed open and then closed behind him . |
| 9 | Their withdrawal became temporary and increasingly associated with the presence of young children . |
| 10 | I took early and late turns with the Chief Clerk , you see , and er well there were two lads who did a middle turn but I need n't mention that , but they did a sort of nine to six you see |
| 11 | Yes , that 's right down there , down there , down and as I say who I took early and late turns with and er why I same as at Cambridge . |
| 12 | and I took early and late turns with him |
| 13 | She was an attractive , red-haired woman , but she looked sad and always dressed in black out of respect for her dead husband . |
| 14 | Certainly there was the occasional spectacular apostasy from civilized values , as in the case of Jack Driberg , a Kenya Masai official who went native and then proceeded to a distinguished career as a lecturer in anthropology at Cambridge ; but on the whole the records , in so far as they can be relied on in such matters do not support this view . |
| 15 | She moistened lips that still felt tender and slightly bruised from his kisses . |
| 16 | He spoke a little French and was plausible , but he looked unreliable and indeed proved to be . |
| 17 | These so-called ‘ Zubatov unions ’ proved abortive and indeed contributed to the explosion of protest which was to shake the regime during 1905 . |
| 18 | Small-scale and localized in the early nineteenth century , it became large-scale and increasingly concentrated in several main trawler ports as the century wore on . |
| 19 | Because of this ritual we wondered if Madame was privy to his secret , if she knew the story , if she sat by him because she knew that O 's great self-possession and his quietness were in fact the signs of a pain which had to be kept hidden , a pain which stayed fresh and so had to be controlled every hour of the night . |
| 20 | Preparations were incubated with the primary antibody for 60 minutes , rinsed in Tris buffered saline and then incubated with the secondary antibody ( mouse anti-rabbit , diluted in Tris buffered saline/normal human serum ) for 30 minutes . |
| 21 | Cells were detached from flasks by first washing three times with Ca 2 + - and Mg 2 + -free phosphate buffered saline and then incubating for three minutes at 37°C with the same phosphate buffered saline to which 0.02% ( w/v ) EDTA had been added . |
| 22 | As Lexandro sat caged and almost stupefied in the humming iron chair , his naked body suffering intermittent shocks and needle pricks while spinning flashing lights disoriented his vision , he distantly heard the reports of the tech . |
| 23 | But the business community remained muted and far removed from the assertive bourgeoisie of Western Europe . |