Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Craven family of Ashdown Park eventually bought Compton Beauchamp in the middle of the nineteenth century , but never lived there . |
| 2 | This division eventually led to the departure of some of the laboratory 's senior staff , a loss that became the universities ' gain . |
| 3 | Lacuna slowly shook her great head . |
| 4 | They gave a spurious reassurance : so friendly , so warm , so protective ( ‘ … but God is round about me , and shall I be afraid ? ’ the computer within suggested doubtfully , but I rejected the idea at once . |
| 5 | The Australian Board eventually withdrew the stigma of ‘ unsportsmanlike ’ and the tour continued . |
| 6 | Last year 's British election duly wreaked it . |
| 7 | In 1984 , 35 Squadron regretfully retired its Shackletons , as spares became impossible through the bite of sanctions . |
| 8 | Although a large proportion of Karavas were poor , some members of this caste successfully took advantage of entrepreneurial opportunities within the expanding market economy . |
| 9 | Yolland recommended that the Board of Trade authorise the BCR to open its line for running between Stretford Bridge and Bishop 's Castle only , and the Board presumably did so . |
| 10 | In other words , the information as experienced by the user rarely took the forms in which it was held in the memories of the system or network . |
| 11 | If the West eventually gave the world the Enlightenment , it was Greeks who had provided much of the light . |
| 12 | M. duly gave up possession . |
| 13 | The Tenant paying the rent hereby reserved and performing and observing the covenants on the Tenant 's part herein contained the Landlord hereby covenants with the Tenant as follows : |
| 14 | SGS-Thomson Microelectronics BV and Mitsubishi Electric Corp duly announced their agreement to work together on development of Flash memory chips , designing 16M-bit parts using a 0.5 micron CMOS process : the agreement is considered to be of equal value to both companies , so no financial compensation will be made by either ; SGS-Thomson has begun production of 1M Flash memories but no-one is doing 16Ms yet . |
| 15 | Sun Microsystems Computer Corp duly announced its Sparcstation 10 systems last week , claiming they deliver up to ten times the performance of existing systems and feature the lowest-cost multiprocessing RISC server on the market . |
| 16 | Recklessly deciding that the appointment was to become effective on All Fools ' Day , April 1 , IBM Corp duly named Louis Gerstner to the posts of both chairman and chief executive . |
| 17 | The earliest extensions or additions may be discreetly sited and carefully designed , but very quickly the hut syndrome is underway and the house is rapidly surrounded by one- or two-storey flat-roofed extensions of the very utilitarian kind mercilessly caricatured by Osbert Lancaster . |
| 18 | On Tuesday , the Queen was wheeled out for her first-ever appearance at the European Parliament to give what the Guardian wittily described as the ‘ royal oui ’ to the EC . |
| 19 | The crusade eventually produced Jess Willard , who , in April 1916 , challenged Johnson in Havana , Cuba . |
| 20 | It also gives the outside temperature , which in our case rarely exceeded zero . |
| 21 | The LTTE effectively took total control of the north when the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) pulled out in March 1990 . |
| 22 | But the peasant plaintiffs in the Mitry case presumably made the journey to Compiègne believing they might win . |
| 23 | Parliament duly emerged , at the end of the seventeenth century , ‘ sovereign ’ in this sense , but it is doubtful if , in doing so , the claim was being formulated in its full , modern sense . |
| 24 | ( The vet eventually amputated and Tulley became a different dog — getting about so much quicker . ) ; |
| 25 | Me being Miss Know-it-all did go out , and lo and behold I got arrested . |
| 26 | The tow truck eventually arrived three hours later , but broke down on the way to her fiance 's home near Norwich . |
| 27 | The Prince laughingly trod some capering steps about the bedroom . |
| 28 | Nonetheless , in the mid-1950s , Dr J. G. O'Mara of Iowa State University successfully applied Givaudon 's colchicine technique to a hybrid of rye and durum , and hence produced hexaploid triticales ; one set of chromosomes from rye , plus two sets from the tetraploid durum makes three — and double it , to make six . |
| 29 | Have new television channels , satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only ? |
| 30 | My chest duly received its dose of milirems . |