Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . |
| 2 | Especially since I 'd only just arrived back from Paris . ’ |
| 3 | Of course , he 'd long since grown out of it . |
| 4 | While the Roman law had perhaps never died out in the north Italian cities and was studied in the early eleventh century at Pavia , where the great lawyer , Lanfranc , archbishop of Canterbury under William the Conqueror , taught for a while , an interest in the texts of Justinian was not widely aroused until the discovery of a manuscript of the Digest in c. 1070 . |
| 5 | All the inhabitants of La Valdieu turned out to be English and when they had explained that they had all independently ended up at the farm without having had any conscious intention of doing so , my sceptical antennae started twitching . |
| 6 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 7 | ‘ We destroyed him because he betrayed The Law ! ’ said Hasan , in the kind of voice that suggested Hasan the Second , the Twenty-third Imam of the Nizari Ismailis , had only just popped out of the room for a cup of coffee instead of being stabbed nearly a thousand years ago . |
| 8 | It was disappointing to discover on asking if I could have them to find that the museum had only just got round to registering what appeared to be Audubon 's proofs . |
| 9 | He did not think there would be any point in Sara travelling to Wellingham that evening , especially as she had only just got back from abroad . |
| 10 | Both Gary Smith and Barry Dowdeswell , chief executive of the Royal Victoria Infirmary , Newcastle 's oldest teaching hospital , agreed that the acute hospitals had only just woken up to community care . |
| 11 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 12 | But he admitted : ‘ It is a crashing diappointment for Rob because he had only just come back into the side — and his return coincided with two successive clean sheets . ’ |
| 13 | The windows have heavy moulded oak mullions mortised into massive oak sills and lintels , a reminder that in the heyday of the Lugg valley , medieval stone mullions had only recently gone out of fashion . |
| 14 | This was BBC Television , an off-shoot of the world-renowned and world-respected BBC Radio service that had so admirably lived up to its motto to ‘ educate , inform and entertain' the general public throughout the war . |
| 15 | I was amazed and terrified at the change I had so casually brought about in her . |
| 16 | There , as Blair had so persuasively pointed out to Sloane , he diligently tilled his soil to cultivate the beautiful flowers and shrubs of which , in later writings , his own appreciation was always apparent . |
| 17 | He also knew that the next few minutes could lose what chance had so miraculously delivered up to him at long last . |
| 18 | Translucent shapes undulated through the jungle , glimmering in the sunlight : the only life the Lucifer System had so far offered up for study . |
| 19 | His mouth was clasped to her breast but she had long since run out of milk to feed him . |
| 20 | And the Postman 's spectacle was covered in greenflies from the vigorous activity up the tree : " No , but I says to him " — " Really , all right " — " Well " — " and " — " Oh , you 've done it " — " Must go down to the " — " Taps , got to get some " went the song to the rhythm of empty beer bottles dropping into the side pocket receptacles of tree-holder number 29 on the dustmen 's route — and the tip-holding pockets for the dustmen were not full or anything cos the ladies had all forgotten their purses , and the paper , folding , crumpled , torn money had long since fluttered down from their knicker-elastic banks . |
| 21 | She had long since grown out of her disco dingbat phase . |
| 22 | They would instantly begin questioning the way the world had been running since their enforced absence , and they would not approve ; whereas those who lay softly beneath the blowing grasses , the quiet slate , had long since turned over in rest and when they woke would wake like children and smile at the sky . |
| 23 | All landmarks that he knew had long since sunk out of sight beyond the rise . |
| 24 | Now i d in our debate we , we had separately actually come up with very similar f processes . |
| 25 | ‘ He told me he had once nearly gone in for psychiatry . |
| 26 | It was quite pointless having a runner who saw the whole thing as a social outing and had once even sat down in a kitchen and said she 'd just rest for a minute . |
| 27 | In 1648 he was serving as a commissioner for the militia and for the collection of tax arrears in London , by which time he had also already branched out into commerce , being recorded as a shipowner . |
| 28 | It immediately reminded her of the unforgettable night at Ali 's Alley when she had met Sanborn , her jazz idol , who had then discreetly found out from her friends which of his songs was her favourite and made an impromptu appearance on stage to play it especially for her . |
| 29 | Tonight , wherever she looked she saw herself reflected and transformed , her face shining as though she had quite suddenly woken up after a long sleep , filled with lovely dreams . |
| 30 | A young woman who had evidently just got out of the Mini was approaching . |