Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When the shepherd eventually limped back to civilisation and told his unlikely tale , the authorities located the treasure and imprisoned the shepherd for theft . |
| 2 | However , outwardly cool , calm and composed , and trying to use up as many minutes as possible , she slowly got out of her car and , just as slowly , moved to the stout front door of the imposing building . |
| 3 | They gamely fought back to 27-20 with a Rob Myler try 10 minutes from time . |
| 4 | Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life . |
| 5 | But , oh dear , in antithesis Freud , Jung , Fromm and the women 's movement slowly crept up on us . |
| 6 | The two mills were thus run in tandem by Marling and Co from 1883 to 1920 , when they eventually sold out to P.C. Evans and Sons Ltd . |
| 7 | Hearts0 St Mirren0 NOBODY anticipated a classic at Tynecastle and Hearts , needing to pick up both points to stay within sight of Premier Division leaders Rangers , and the doomed St Mirren duly lived up to expectations . |
| 8 | By the time she eventually got up to her room , she was out on her feet , and , if she were honest , not entirely sober . |
| 9 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 10 | So I phoned Mrs I eventually got through to her then I had to phone the prison to tell daddy because he was going to go in and erm I mean I , and then I go back to work , Grant . |
| 11 | And in the camera , when police eventually got round to checking , were 17 pictures of the last hours of their lives . |
| 12 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 13 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 14 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 15 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 16 | We eventually got back to our campsite at around 5.00pm . |
| 17 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 18 | Anyway , I eventually caught up with him in Irkutsk which is central Siberia . |
| 19 | De Chaboulon recalled : ‘ The looting delayed the enemy 's pursuit which eventually caught up with us at Quatre Bras and they fell upon our carriages . |
| 20 | Wordsworth , on the other hand , placed more value on Nature as a religious and moral agent ; he began those speculations about the meaning and direction of his own life which eventually built up into The Prelude . |
| 21 | She felt such a clown , standing before them with that vulgar object between her open legs , but she slowly sank down towards the disgusting dildo and manipulated her thighs until the blunt tip was nudging at the portals of her reluctant orifice . |
| 22 | He seemed to loom over her and she instinctively moved back in her chair with a jerk . |
| 23 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 24 | An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it . |
| 25 | They only gazed back at us with eerie little smiles . |
| 26 | Oh you only got up for a coffee ? |
| 27 | Seeing Alice 's commenting face , Muriel said swiftly , " But he only got back at three this morning , and those Channel boats … |
| 28 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 29 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 30 | I only got out of the hospital because of an old unclosed file , and a doctor from the outside who took an interest in my case . |