Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took his vorpal sword in hand : Longtime the manxome foe he sought So rested he by the Tumtum tree , And stood awhile in thought . |
| 2 | It has continued to grow and expand and has since established itself as a permanent base for experimentation with education in health based on Primary Health Care principles . |
| 3 | The German occupation proved useful in one respect , however : it spurred the formation of the Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne ( CIVC ) , an organisation which has since established itself as the most successful of its type in France . |
| 4 | Escobar announced last month that he was declaring war on the state and the government has since blamed him for a series of bomb blasts in Bogota and other cities which have killed more than 40 people . |
| 5 | She has defended the Mulroney government , whereas Mr Charest has discreetly distanced himself from the old regime . |
| 6 | The CNAA , in its desire to ensure that the courses which it validates are of a sufficiently high standard , has necessarily concerned itself with the resources and ethos of institutions as a whole and has not hesitated to pass judgment on them , going , some would argue , beyond the responsibilities laid upon it by its Royal Charter . |
| 7 | And , although he had recently been known to talk to an invisible giant white rabbit and peek at his neighbours through binoculars , neither of these traits were deemed enough to blacken him in the eyes of the electors . |
| 8 | In the course of getting to know the right conditions for plants to survive well , in addition to looking their best in the overall scheme of the garden , Tricia — internationally known as an interior designer — has naturally become something of a plantswoman . |
| 9 | ‘ Tiananmen has obviously moved us towards an attitude of caution . ’ |
| 10 | They moved to Dallas , and Graham has so immersed himself in the American way of life that I am surprised he has not sought American citizenship . |
| 11 | By middle age Bartram has so educated himself in the classics , sciences , medicines and above all , botany , that he was regarded as one of the intellectuals of his time . |
| 12 | The historian , Robert Currie , has justly described it as the ‘ architectural monument to Methodist ambitions at the beginning of the twentieth century ’ . |
| 13 | Irina said , ‘ Hello Alfred , hello Ludens , hello Alfred Ludens , Franca has just compared me with a toad . ’ |
| 14 | The person who has just sent me into an inner panic of humiliated pride , anger and singeing hurt may have less responsibility in the matter than I may be inclined to attribute to them . |
| 15 | She sits at the marriage banquet , apparently in a cafe , and the harlequin has just presented her with a bouquet . |
| 16 | Colleagues , if we believe in playing the full part in the European community then as Steven Hughes has just said we as a union must back the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 17 | I believe that the accounts , whilst complying as John has just told us with the Companies Act , do give , I hope , as full and an informative picture as possible and therefore I do n't intend to talk about them in detail . |
| 18 | Len Snow , Boateng 's agent says : ‘ His principles have n't changed — he has just adapted them to the '90s . ’ |
| 19 | He has just photographed her for the latest Dolce e Gabbana campaign in New York . |
| 20 | Owner Dave Vernon has lately replaced it with a rare late-sixties single-tailed Mooney M-10 Cadet version ( right ) which he flew solo from Los Angeles to Miami . |
| 21 | has already crapped himself about the visit cause extra work of course but er the er however we should er revert maybe we 'll keep an eye on the schedule and things er but we we need to tie it up tight so we do n't get a cos I mean what 's being said now in the corridors of power is that the schedule is totally sales driven and it 's the sales department that 's put it together , I am only the administrator , I only I d I completely take my orders from the sales department quote unquote in front of everybody at the management meeting . |
| 22 | He has already blessed you with every spiritual blessing . |
| 23 | Robert can see Henry 's star quality and has already aligned him with an animal talent agency ( Satch 's Animals ) , although his one date with the cameras so far — for a Lucozade commercial — was n't exactly a smash . |
| 24 | Kirov has already supplied us with a list of the elite Soviet squadrons equipped with the modified Foxbats . |
| 25 | It has already reduced it from a peak of 36,000 to around 26,000 . |
| 26 | ‘ God has already shown him by the lightnings what I do think he already knew in his heart . |
| 27 | Kathryn Stott has already established herself as a sensitive interpreter of French music with recitals of Fauré and Debussy , and now here she is in Ravel — and in two works at least ( Gaspard and Le tombeau de Couperin ) which are technically especially challenging . |
| 28 | She has already established herself as a backing singer specialising in jazz and stands to win professional recording sessions . |
| 29 | The reformed parliament with temporarily appointed deputies has already established itself as a genuine decision-making legislature . |
| 30 | Metrogel received marketing authorisation in Britain in December 1991 and was launched by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals , Bioglan 's licensee , in April 1992 ; it has already established itself as the leading topical treatment for rosacea in Britain . |