Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernie laid right into me , telling me I was stupid for losing them . |
| 2 | One of his associates was the noted bibliophile Richard de Bury , later Bishop of Durham , and it was he who informed the Pope , in response to a message conveyed verbally , that requests which the king himself really wished to be carried out would bear the words Pater Sancte in his own hand . |
| 3 | The play tottered on like this for a quarter of an hour . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course not , ’ she countered politely , meeting the smiling eyes of the hovering waiter with a touch more warmth in her face . |
| 5 | Land that is cultivated or grazed intensively near the croft is often referred to as inbye to distinguish it from common grazings and more distant fields . |
| 6 | The Type I disease is usually seen in calves grazed intensively during their first grazing season , as the result of larvae ingested 3-4 weeks previously ; in the northern hemisphere this normally occurs from mid-July onwards . |
| 7 | On the following day he condemned it as " illegitimate and invalid " and rejected opening formal negotiations , this position being reiterated in a resolution passed overwhelmingly by the Congress on March 15 . |
| 8 | Soviet efforts to minimize the impact of his resignation internationally included a Congress resolution passed overwhelmingly at the end of the debate affirming the continuity of foreign policy . |
| 9 | A resolution passed overwhelmingly empowers the republican government — which has effectively taken charge since the disintegration of Soviet central authority after the failed coup in August — to close the second reactor immediately and to bring forward the closure of the whole complex from 1995 to 1993 . |
| 10 | It should be said , incidentally , that the remastering of the original 78s has , without affecting the overall frequency range , virtually eliminated their surface noise and produced remarkably quiet backgrounds : the only exception is the Prokofiev sonata ( which Horowitz introduced the USA ) , where the 1945 recording ( the earliest here ) is also more resonant and in which , just occasionally , a little to much pedal is used : the tremendous drive of his rhythm nevertheless makes for a compelling performance . |
| 11 | Rowntree 's stringent poverty line produced remarkably similar results to those of Booth . |
| 12 | He became eventually a conscientious objector . |
| 13 | Bitterness , frustration and jealousy crept slowly in and only proud bar room nostalgia ( ‘ I remember one night when me and Pete Shelley got pissed and spent the night in Piccadilly Gardens … ’ ) remained . |
| 14 | As they crept slowly forward over the plain his eyes searched for those tiny villages made of mud with their bamboo groves and their ponds ; and though the plain was perfectly flat the villages were somehow hidden in its folds , blending with it . |
| 15 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |
| 16 | The two men were no longer at the bottom of the stairs , and , envisaging all sorts of dramas , including murder , she crept slowly down . |
| 17 | He crept slowly towards the main corridors . |
| 18 | Ivy crept slowly up the walls before the house had even noticed she was there . |
| 19 | By a notice of appeal dated 6 September 1991 the solicitors appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) under section 6(2) of the Act of 1986 the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of section 3 of the Act to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell and ( b ) under section 61(1) of the Act the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of any rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell ; ( 2 ) the court had no jurisdiction under sections 6(2) and 61(1) to award claims for compensation for loss against persons knowingly concerned in such contraventions in contrast to sections 6(3) to ( 7 ) and sections 61(3) to ( 7 ) ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) the power of the court under section 6(2) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court might direct for restoring the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into and ( b ) the power of the court under section 61(1) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention of the rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to take such steps as the court might direct to remedy it included power to make a financial award against such person directing payment by that person to individual investors of sums equivalent to the amounts paid by such investors pursuant to the said transaction , neither subsection empowering the court to order restitution by the repayment of moneys outside the possession or control of the person concerned ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law ( a ) in his construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) in failing to have regard to the principle ‘ generalibus specialia derogant , ’ in particular in holding that there could exist within each of sections 6 and 61 two parallel powers to order financial redress at the suit of the plaintiff , one derived from sections 6(3) and 6(4) and sections 61(3) and 61(4) respectively , which was subject to the limitations set out in those and subsequent subsections , and the other derived from section 6(2) and section 61(1) , which was subject to no such limitations ; ( b ) in rejecting the submission that sections 6 and 61 were essentially procedural and did not create new substantive legal rights and remedies ; and ( c ) in failing to have regard to the fact that the orders sought under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim required payment to the plaintiff or alternatively into court of moneys recovered thereunder from the solicitors despite the absence of any provisions for such orders in the Act , his dismissal of the summons being inconsistent with his finding that there was no provision in sections 6(2) or 61(1) directing payment into court and that any order under the sections would have to direct repayment of the sum paid to each individual investor who had made the original payment . |
| 20 | " Father , " she interrupted eventually , " why would you be telling me these things when I know them already ? " |
| 21 | Hon W.L. MacKenzie King , Prime Minister of Canada , admitted shyly to Edna Jacques that he had been an ardent fan for over 20 years , and Mrs Nellie McClung , the Canadian novelist , said to her ‘ You have the gift , Edna dear , to ring bells in the hearts of the people ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ But you were n't supported and it did n't work … so what have you achieved ? ’ she asked sarcastically . |
| 23 | Mark asked sarcastically . |
| 24 | When I was foolish enough to laugh at a preposterous and provocative statement made by Mr Dinsdale — who had surely modelled himself on Dickens 's character Mr Bounderby — he gave me a withering look and asked sarcastically : ‘ Is this a reason to laugh ? ’ |
| 25 | Hayman asked sarcastically . |
| 26 | ‘ An' what 's the matter with you ? ’ she asked sarcastically . |
| 27 | Are you worried I 'll take away the magic , or what ? ’ he asked sarcastically . |
| 28 | Forcing herself to meet his gaze , she asked sarcastically , ‘ Finished ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Another ? ’ she asked sarcastically . |
| 30 | ‘ Poached or fried ? ’ he asked sarcastically . |