Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are no longer so much nibbled as jostled . |
| 2 | All her agitation of the summer she suddenly saw as moving towards this end — she had known , without knowing it , of this tragedy , she had been what her old mistress had called ‘ pre-sentimental ’ . |
| 3 | Probably they had not so much disappeared as retreated , with the local dialect , into the private and unofficial underworld of non-literate culture . |
| 4 | If it is true that kings only legislated when faced with an urgent need to enhance their standing with their subjects by prestigious acts of law-making , the appearance of royal codes of law in Kent and Wessex at this time may reflect something of the very considerable crisis through which these regions had recently passed . |
| 5 | Charles and Alex drank a lot , but Charles did n't feel the relaxation he normally experienced when getting quietly pissed with a fellow actor . |
| 6 | The invention of back stairs and corridors rendered the family rooms increasingly private , since they now needed to be entered only for specific purposes , and no longer functioned as thoroughfares . |
| 7 | The facts , as we perceive them , do suggest the existence of a coordinating intelligence at work behind the scenes , possibly an aspect of that same life energy , or vital force , which we already saw as having an organizing and integrating function in the individual living organism . |
| 8 | No sooner had than lost . |
| 9 | Well I just wondered if turning it down made any difference . |
| 10 | He was known for wanting to be photographed from every conceivable angle and vigorously applauded when making his inflammatory speeches , and I was looking forward to seeing in the flesh this extraordinary man of whom my parents had brought me up to disapprove . |
| 11 | The chief inspector shivered with an indefinable dread , the fear she always experienced when faced by a hatred that could only be satiated through violence . |
| 12 | Saying Grace is not always a prelude to conventional manners in Free Kirk households as I once found when asked to offer the Grace in a cottage in Point , Lewis , in which the great aunt of a friend lived . |
| 13 | Boil rapidly uncovered until reduced to one third of its original quality . |
| 14 | He let out the incredulous , admiring little snort of laughter he usually did when mentioning the stationer 's : " Greeting cards ! |
| 15 | ‘ Well , come along , come along , Miss Quinn , ’ Dr. Briant said , using the bright rallying voice he always did when speaking to her , and obediently she picked up the baby and carried him to the scales . |
| 16 | She became assertive-in-spite-of-herself , and marching rapidly from one end of the kitchen to the other , which she always did when entrusting him with a home truth , said , ‘ It 's not , Henry . |
| 17 | Once inside , Charlie crossed himself the way his grandfather always had when entering St Mary 's and St Michael 's in Jubilee Street . |
| 18 | And here 's a typical example of Lady C. C. 's way with quotation marks : ’ ‘ I fall in love quickly ’ , Prince Charles once said while speaking about romance and marriage . |
| 19 | The stomach now appears more distended when compared with the fasted sequence and powerful pyloric contraction can be seen ( arrowed ) . |
| 20 | Another of Joni 's masterpieces , the ‘ Madonna and Child ’ ( fig.4 ) in the style of Matteo di Giovanni , which Perkins also listed as belonging to Lehman , is a similar case . |
| 21 | I have read his highly critical speeches in the other place about the difficulties that he repeatedly encountered when trying to pursue European legislation and the obstruction that emanated from senior Ministers . |
| 22 | Mark Coates crashed when fifth in the 125cc race on lap two and his cousin Adrian also crashed when lying 11th . |
| 23 | Thomas Dawson also died when serving with the RAF and Henry Kane of the Royal Navy died at sea . |
| 24 | Mr McWhirter had summoned a taxi to take him home , as he often did when afflicted with the snap and bite of chilblain pains . |
| 25 | Yet , said Mr. Watkinson , Lord Bridge can hardly have had it in mind that the private law right which he plainly regarded as coming into existence when the duty laid down in section 65(2) arose could give rise to a public law duty as to the manner in which the private law right was to be satisfied . |
| 26 | VZV 140k DNA binding domain deletion polypeptides were expressed to high levels in E.coli and partially purified as described for the VT2 polypeptide . |
| 27 | The children viewed him with wary respect , since , in spite of his air of benignity , he frequently exploded when faced with old chewing-gum stuck under the pews , the choir guardedly shooting craps during the sermon , and similar juvenile straying from the path of righteousness . |
| 28 | Those examined by Kanwisher simply froze when exposed to extremely cold air . |
| 29 | I even wondered whether to make him into soup or pâté . ’ |
| 30 | The only parts of the experimental area where there are no facilities for cyclists are in those residential streets that are sufficiently lightly and slowly trafficked as to constitute no danger to cyclists sharing the roadway with cars . |