Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that the simplistic socialist argument — that all would be well if only Labour stood up for its class interests with the same vigour that the Tories stand up for theirs — is correct . |
| 2 | Perhaps this came about in part because his idol and friend , Wordsworth — to whom he was in some way in thrall — had left the district to go to France and make a settlement with his French mistress and daughter as a prelude to marrying his childhood sweetheart back in England . |
| 3 | Only 2,222 turned up at the Vic for the 3–1 win against Exeter on Tuesday well below the average attendance for the season , 3,500 . |
| 4 | ‘ I informed everyone in local league cricket , including 21 clubs of Asian boys , but only three turned up for the first week . |
| 5 | What no one told the audience was that although the band 's instruments were apparently all wired up for sound , Shakatak was actually miming to a tape it had recorded in a Shepperton studio the night before . |
| 6 | On collecting these names I began to wonder whether I was being taken in but so many came up on independent lists that the villagers sent in that I am sure they are authentic . |
| 7 | Not so many went out to work as they do now . ’ |
| 8 | So many turned up for this emergency meeting of Swindon 's railway pensioners , that more than a hundred had to stand outside . |
| 9 | But anyway this went on for weeks and weeks , and I kept on it down the lift shaft . |
| 10 | There 's not many left out of the companies . |
| 11 | Not many spoke out against sending the Taskforce — and I also admired him for taking over the Liberal Party in very difficult circumstances . |
| 12 | She looked daunting and she went downstairs all geared up for trouble . |
| 13 | He would he 'd been identified as a character that was at least stirring up trouble , but gradually this filtered through to the authorities . |
| 14 | From the window of his room on the top floor of the tenement building , Joe could see down into old Mr Webb 's office at the rear of the shop , and the outline of scores of books were clearly visible poled up against the filthy windows . |
| 15 | Cameron was thinking : Those upland folk who were at Kenmore this morning — they nearly all kept on towards Tummel when we forked north-west for Rannoch . |
| 16 | They nearly all started out in Paris or were influenced by Paris artists , taking Rodin , Bourdelle and Maillol as their role models . |
| 17 | Sunday mornings I wake up All wrapped up in |
| 18 | A woman of about 30 lurched out of the Post Office in front of us and staggered down the road a few steps before falling — her exposed thighs and palms making a sickening ‘ slap-smack ’ sound on the pavement . |
| 19 | A small boy of about six came up to Jackson and stared at him from a distance of two feet before pulling a face and running away . |
| 20 | Bushes and shrubs , uncared for , burst bonds like fat women who have left off their corsets , and now many spilled out in mantraps of thorny undergrowth . |
| 21 | The purely Chinese came over from the mainland with Chiang Kai-Shek . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Maybe this is an old-fashioned viewpoint , but last night I thought something fairly important went on between the two of us … ? ’ |
| 23 | Suddenly , a girl aged about 16 walked up from one of the scattered houses in the village and stood in the same spot he intended to use for his photography . |
| 24 | Two touchdowns in a five-minute spell early in the second-half from Tony Smith gave Castleford the cushion they needed as Northern came back with four late tries . |
| 25 | Here JR lived up to his title , Mr Knitwear , by donning a Peter Scott number beneath his bailie 's robes . |
| 26 | Jukeboxes as we know them today first showed up in the 1940s . |
| 27 | if they ca n't , we 'd better enquire about that I wonder how little went on with his knee ? |
| 28 | Unfortunately this fell out on the third ascent . |
| 29 | Unfortunately this turned out to be a wasted effort , as the closure of Arkwright Colliery was announced soon after the first train had used the spur . |
| 30 | ‘ I thumped one of them then another turned up with a gun . |