Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruthven suddenly rose as if to suppress some excitement inside him . |
| 2 | The further away from a time-piece you were , the more it not only seemed to but did drag . |
| 3 | ( a beating ) Though my whole inside felt as if clutched in an icy grip , I had gone too far to retreat . |
| 4 | In a strong judgment the Court also claimed that the ‘ dignity and freedom of an individual in a democratic society can not be ensured if his communications of a private nature , be they written or telephonic , are deliberately , consciously and unjustifiably intruded upon and interfered with ’ . |
| 5 | Subjects are taken back to childhood by being put in nappies , bottle-fed and alternately shouted at and hugged , which leaves them feeling helpless and vulnerable . |
| 6 | Conducted professionally , regression therapy does not involve subjects being taken back to childhood ‘ by being put in nappies , bottle-fed and alternately shouted at and hugged … ’ |
| 7 | He says , just walked by and ran up the stairs ! |
| 8 | We still behaved as if to sleep were a waste of time . |
| 9 | She jerked her head round quickly towards where the Men usually came from and stared fixedly . |
| 10 | They did not look like the kind of people she usually associated with but seemed inimical , common , even savage , and with truculent , peevish faces . |
| 11 | I tell the truth , honest I do ! " one was shouting , and it and a few others tugged at the lower edges of the few furs he still had on and pulling on his under-breeches where they appeared out of the top of his boots . |
| 12 | Was Burgess more sinned against than sinning ? |
| 13 | ‘ More sinned against than sinning , if you follow me . |
| 14 | Also in India , there appeared a number of radical critiques of its own programme which both contributed to and benefited from the conference on population at Bucharest ( e.g. Weissman 1970 ) . |
| 15 | Darwin 's thinking both drew upon and transcended the conventional ideas of his time . |
| 16 | Only through his marriage , which for him was unconsciously rooted in an identification with the bereaved , did he create the conditions where it became more difficult to drive out or cut off from the attachment he both yearned for and feared . |
| 17 | Go back to the west coast where you probably came from and join the other vagrants there . |
| 18 | Every moment I was in a fever of anxiety lest I should be missing , by so much as a second , the vital news I both longed for and dreaded . |
| 19 | So she sat , with the sleeping Jacqueline on her lap and waited , it seemed forever , for the moment she both longed for and dreaded . |
| 20 | ‘ But it was really hard to deal with sometimes , especially when I got the thumbs down on something I really believed in and did n't want to change . |
| 21 | About 10 foreigners were among the victims of political violence in 1989 , with the result that foreign aid workers , archaeologists and tourists increasingly withdrew from or avoided rural areas . |
| 22 | She immediately set to and tried to establish some order . |
| 23 | It might have been assumed that the corollary was that the prosecution did not have to prove that the accused assumed the rights of the owner contrary to the owner 's wishes but in Morris it was held that a person appropriated only if he adversely interfered with or usurped the rights of the owner . |
| 24 | He paused , and then gestured as if to dismiss the subject . |
| 25 | This ensures that the modules have not been inadvertently or maliciously tampered with or corrupted and gives you confidence in their integrity . |
| 26 | This ensures that the modules have not been inadvertently or maliciously tampered with or corrupted and gives confidence in their integrity . |
| 27 | On an afterthought , she said ‘ Thank you very much , children , ’ and then paused as if trying to come to a decision . |
| 28 | That 's because large events involve extra considerations you never dreamed of when doing a small conference . |
| 29 | This continually looked at and responded to data being put into temporary text files by the VARPRO programs that were rested under tablet key file instructions . |