Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb past] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the month after her father 's death each of them had discovered the need to explore hitherto suppressed areas of feeling and half-knowledge that stood between them and a clearer knowledge of the selves they were now fully determined to offer to each other . |
| 2 | In relations between the two ‘ opposing systems ’ , conflict clearly took precedence over competition . |
| 3 | We should , of course , widen the context even further for , if in the movies preaching usually came hand in hand with melodrama , this should remind us that films were still firmly in the hands of showmen and they were free to use social comment and social settings as they thought best . |
| 4 | Aeroplane pilots used to wear similarly tinted glasses as haze filters . |
| 5 | Onyx notably lacked inclination for housework , not to mention motherly instinct . |
| 6 | However , given simply worded questions on computation , and time to complete their working , most of the lowest attaining pupils had no more difficulty with written than with orally presented questions . |
| 7 | The shock of falling behind sparked Wolves into life and they were level nine minutes later when the former Doncaster midfielder Mark Rankine scored his first goal for Wolves with a powerful header from Ashley 's centre . |
| 8 | After the bubble burst and concerns about the market grew , annual Show results became closely watched indicators of market strength . |
| 9 | Sarah 's demand that Hagar and Ishmael should be sent away ran counter to custom . |
| 10 | In order to prove it was not composed of ‘ patsies ’ , as Reagan put it , the United States insisted that Arafat repeat specifically worded concessions concerning terrorism and recognition of Israel , and when he failed to do so verbatim , it required him to repeat the authorized US version . |
| 11 | An Institute of Directors survey published today showed 63pc of company directors were more optimistic about the economy now than six months ago . |
| 12 | The Forum has tried to collect views through a biennial request to individual organisations and associations to bring forward suggested areas for research but this did not prove fruitful . |