Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that sense it 's a glorified soap — and I 've heard it dismissed more than once as a yuppie Dallas , though I find it as difficult to understand how anyone could see it that way as those people would find it to understand how I can curl up , laugh and cry with the characters each week and carry their dilemmas around with me in the days in between . |
| 2 | Between these two , an unequivocal dividing line made the plateaux of Leon and Burgos a kind of no-mans-land , across which the two forces ranged more or less in a continual dispute until the middle of the tenth century . |
| 3 | She concentrated on the clouds , which moved quickly and smoothly as a train across the top of the hills . |
| 4 | In 1921 Lloyd George came suddenly and dramatically to an accommodation with Sinn Fein . |
| 5 | It is best to use small amounts of food , for you might not notice tiny pieces nibbled here and there from a large lump . |
| 6 | Tensions submerged in the earlier campaign now came to the fore and led more and more to a coercive policy of sexual regulation , especially of working-class prostitutes . |
| 7 | ‘ Very well , thank you , ’ she replied politely and then with a trace of irony in her voice , added , ‘ I finished Buddenbrooks and walked only in the garden . |
| 8 | If a slab of stone fell on her head now and flattened her , it would serve her right for prying , she thought wryly , as the door opened slowly and reluctantly with a grudging squeal of rusty hinges . |
| 9 | She was seated in her chair like a cold stone statue , her face turned upward and away as an indication of her contempt . |
| 10 | Sour old Mr Piggott , who had looked in at St Andrew 's , let fall an ejaculation quite unsuitable to its surroundings , and emerging from the vestry door , crunched purposefully and maliciously upon a piece of coke to relieve his feelings . |
| 11 | Frankie was rubbing his hands together and Chopper merely nodded now and then with a silly expression on his face . |
| 12 | Lunch 8 oz. minced beef cooked slowly and thoroughly in a small saucepan with a level dessertspoonful of dried onion , a little black pepper and a Swiss Knorr beef stock cube , dissolved in a quarter of a pint of hot water from the kettle . |
| 13 | Using an efficient computer program in which each lattice-site is represented as a pixel of the screen , we have explored the asymptotic behaviour of this system for various values of b , and with various initial proportions of C and D arranged randomly or regularly on an nxn lattice ( n=20 and more ) . |
| 14 | Maleczek has shown that from Innocent 's sixth year in office , 1203 – 4 , as the reign progressed , the pope worked more and more with a smaller group of cardinals , of whom the key members were Hugolinus , Pelagius and Guala , and there was less consultation of the whole college . |
| 15 | These rules were to apply to property bequeathed unconditionally or else under a term ( dies ) . |
| 16 | He died suddenly and unexpectedly of a coronary in 1962 . |
| 17 | It was too big , a great covered space where people strode backwards and forwards in a hurry . |
| 18 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 19 | Then it surged upwards and forwards with a noise like a washing machine spinning itself to oblivion , and crashed into the underside of the platform . |
| 20 | ‘ I felt again and again as an actor that we simply were not gaining the audience 's confidence . |
| 21 | Garments fluttered over her head and she emerged more or less inside a pleated tennis dress , sailor-collared but daringly short . |
| 22 | We take our orders , issued here and there in a whisper . ’ |
| 23 | As a labour film Hamilton thought that it got nowhere and even as a film about a mining community he thought that ‘ everything is too neat and tidy and well-ordered to hint at what actual conditions may be ’ . |
| 24 | Her teeth gritted together to stop herself screaming , she rocked backwards and forwards like a child , oblivious to the drizzle that had begun while she 'd been in the kitchen with Gwen as disjointed sentences jostled in her brain for supremacy . |
| 25 | He drank with Brendan Bracken , the red-haired Irishman who many thought was Churchill 's bastard , and slept more than once on a settee in the great man 's flat in Morpeth Mansions when they had all drunk too much whisky — although never while Churchill was in town . |
| 26 | With slow wrinkling his stiff face relaxed now and then into a feminine tender smile . |
| 27 | — There was no way , though , she was going to step into that pit : Simon 's warning , ‘ Making a fool of you — not as daft as you think — making a fool of you , ’ replayed again and again like a commentary to the pictures in her head . |
| 28 | So erm he travelled backwards and forwards for a year prior to us coming to live here permanently . |
| 29 | Her hair was heavily oiled , perfumed and washed again and again in a henna mixture . |