Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ivy crept slowly up the walls before the house had even noticed she was there . |
| 2 | While suspicion as to the source of the leakage had fallen on a variety of people , I agreed wholeheartedly with the decision that Wilson , and presumably the National Executive , had arrived at . |
| 3 | Some such unfortunates ultimately abandoned the East Indiamen for a place in the pilot service in India , after they had acquired sufficient influence with important passengers to secure such an appointment , while others might take a place as an officer of one of the so-called country ships , which operated only in the East and did not return to Europe . |
| 4 | Fenella , who had found Tara a place of breathtaking beauty and who would have very much liked to explore it , saw how it gleamed gently against the night and seemed to have some inner radiance of its own . |
| 5 | The final alignment began at Haifa Bay , passed overland through the Jezreel and Bet Shean Valleys , and followed the Jordan Rift Valley southwards until it reached the northern shore of the Dead Sea . |
| 6 | More recent changes in female employment , and the increasing ‘ liberation ’ of women from a life centred entirely around the home and the family , will make such an assessment increasingly outdated . |
| 7 | Something similar must have happened to Middleton 's crew because we met together at the station and took the train on the last lap to Cambridge . |
| 8 | But administration lawyers said that limitation now applied only within the US and not beyond its borders . |
| 9 | For this reason , when asked to host a Commonwealth conference in Ottawa , the Canadian government agreed only on the condition that the USA was also invited , to avoid charges of ‘ ganging up ’ . |
| 10 | After long discussions with Prof Spitz and his team , who had performed two similar operations before , the Holtons agreed only on the basis that each child would have an equal chance and organs would be shared equally . |
| 11 | The men lived together in a compound or — to use their term — a cage . |
| 12 | So much so that even when I had abandoned hopes of luring her into my narrow and uncomfortable bed , we frequently got together for a drink or a cheap meal . |
| 13 | On Tuesday they all got together in the Trades and Labour Hall and they were very excited at that stage . |
| 14 | Material draped all round the walls and swords and things hanging on them . |
| 15 | But the main deterrent is that in much of Russia and Ukraine the bureaucrats , Servicemen and scientists who rode roughshod over the locals while living ‘ abroad ’ can not find homes or jobs . |
| 16 | The ducks gazed thoughtfully at the sky and flapped their wings , but not so much as a peep was uttered by any of them . |
| 17 | As we receded from the mainland we ever sighted new mountain ranges : we saw them growing fainter and dipping out of our sight ; to the southward the Skye hills lent a charm , and the Isle of Lewis loomed bigger and broader , till we steamed alongside of the pier and were landed ‘ mid the curing of a fine catch of herring taken during the night . |
| 18 | And then it rolled away down the hill and then it went over the road and then it stopped right on the railway and then … and then … ’ |
| 19 | They wandered slowly into the study and sat down . |
| 20 | He entered the next carriage , his hand gripped tightly around the railing , and moved slowly down the corridor until he reached his own compartment . |
| 21 | As he kicked and struggled , it tilted and then , while the rabbits watched from the bank , moved slowly across the pool and grounded on the opposite side . |
| 22 | They all waited in silence behind the vestry door until a large shadow moved slowly across the path and finally enveloped the church all the way to the trees . |
| 23 | Kathleen moved slowly from the doorway and shook her head , without speaking . |
| 24 | Then , still without speaking , Mr Dakin moved unhurriedly between the cows and a faint chink of metal sounded as he fastened the chain around Blossom 's neck . |
| 25 | She sank slowly to the bottom and opened her eyes and saw the legs of the four underwater . |
| 26 | He staggered slowly towards the Monument and at last sat down opposite Jack 's stepfather with painful slowness . |
| 27 | I stopped at a pub I used rarely near the BBC and had a ploughman 's and a couple of orange juices , no alcohol , partly because I wanted to keep a clear head and partly to fit in with the cab-driver persona . |
| 28 | The turnpikes , though important in the history of roads , contributed little to the landscape that did not exist before . |
| 29 | There is also a continuing technological backwardness I think I , I probably mentioned right at the outset that in nineteen fifty India had six times as many tractors per acre in cultivation as China did . |
| 30 | After a while a toothless old woman peered nervously round the door and smiled . |