Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got on well to start with and were definitely in love , but we both changed over the years and in the end everything went wrong . |
| 2 | ‘ The energies expended on continually fighting for funding could have been put to more practical use but the decision vindicates that effort , ’ she said . |
| 3 | One day he set off for Barnard Castle to address a meeting , but got so hopelessly drunk on the journey he was unable to speak on his arrival . |
| 4 | In time , academic anthropology became less directly associated with evolutionary ideas , and it tried to establish itself as a respectable , if not conservative , branch of the social sciences . |
| 5 | In one patient symptoms became much less marked after one month but persisted to death at three months . |
| 6 | People throughout the world suddenly became much better informed about radiation hazards . |
| 7 | In earlier chapters we saw that manic-depressive conflict between ego and superego became much more marked with the introduction of agriculture and weaning , leading to the internalization of the primal , providential mother in phantasy because of her disappearance in reality , as symbolized , for instance , in the mother-goddess cult . |
| 8 | The points used most often correspond to the Hegu ( L14 ) and Zusanli ( St36 ) points . |
| 9 | One day it was decided we would take our dinner to eat in the nearby Botanical Gardens , and we staggered down there laden with dishes , plates etc. , Mary-Anne hiding under her coat from embarrassment in case she passed anyone she knew ! |
| 10 | The sociological models described so far needed to be recast . |
| 11 | All the characteristics listed so far tell of the leader 's relationship with God ( 'looking up' ) . |
| 12 | In March 1939 he gave the Boutwood Foundation lectures at Corpus Christi College , Cambridge , in which he outlined the kind of society which he wished to see established , a society which actively advanced the values and principles which he found so signally lacking in Neville Chamberlain 's England . |
| 13 | Most of the studies reviewed so far focus on people 's attitudes to domestic energy use and equipment , an aspect of their immediate daily life . |
| 14 | The mountaintops are smothered , black crags violent spattered marks against that blankness ; the hills and forests are blanketed too , the trees are frosted and the loch is hard and soft together , iced over then snowed upon . |
| 15 | Dyson lingered , and he and Lewis found still more to say to one another , strolling up and down the cloister of New Buildings . |
| 16 | I was wearing a large theatrical ring with an enormous ‘ emerald ’ surrounded by paste diamonds and he bent more closely to look at it . |
| 17 | Would n't you just love it if you knew guys jerked off just looking at you ? ’ |
| 18 | He flicked his own eyes towards the rear seat , and his heart leapt as the black man 's eyes narrowed slightly then glanced at the figure in the back . |
| 19 | If a decision that he regarded as properly belonging to himself was taken at a lower level ( even by the prime minister ) , he invariably administered a sharp rebuke . |
| 20 | Stark however was keen to distinguish knowledge from ideology and in this he differentiated himself from Mannheim 's position which he regarded as too dominated by Marxism ( Stark 1958 : 104 ) . |
| 21 | The publication of the photograph led to increased speculation over the contentious issue of the fate of those 2,273 US servicemen listed as officially missing in action ( MIA ) in the Vietnam war . |
| 22 | Commenting on the outcome of the meeting , reported as notably lacking in the acrimony which had marred recent gatherings [ see pp. 38170 ; 38314 ] , the US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady told a press conference afterwards that the US had secured an " unequivocal commitment " from its G-7 partners to concentrate on growth . |
| 23 | Marcus went white and jerked round sharply to look at the figure behind him . |
| 24 | The fact that so few complied not only testifies to the courage of those who signed , but also gives the lie to the notion that they were somehow conned into signing or that they did so out of temporary frustration with events immediately following the Danish vote . |
| 25 | His primary commitment was to effective control ; he chose deterrence because it seemed most obviously to follow from his views on human rationality . |
| 26 | One councillor who attended the meeting , however , believed much still depended on whether BS might apply for a Department of Transport grant to enable the rail service to continue . |
| 27 | So you think this vitiated all the economic planning that you 'd so carefully prepared for ? |
| 28 | Although his head was throbbing almost intolerably , he 'd felt sober enough to ring for breakfast in his room , and had done his best to contemplate the ‘ Full English ’ he 'd so foolishly ordered for 7 a.m . |
| 29 | ‘ Ever since I first started making you question all the things you 'd so happily taken for granted ? ’ |
| 30 | To give me what you 'd so often described to me . ’ |