Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at St John 's College , Cambridge , which he entered in the summer of 1784 that matters really came to a head , however . |
| 2 | After 1918 the small shipbuilding industry at Elbing almost collapsed as a result of the creation of the Corridor simply because the cost of maintaining the river was compounded by the cost of negotiating the tariff barriers . |
| 3 | DRAYTON Asia Trust yesterday joined in a war of words with EFM Dragon , the Edinburgh-managed investment trust which targeted it for takeover a fortnight ago . |
| 4 | I return to Mr Ritchie 's point that what happened here amounted to a collateral contract , that is an independent contract collateral to the main contract . |
| 5 | No , he sa , he did , the , happen occasionally went to a neighbour and asked to them to borrow one , he 's not started again |
| 6 | Not to do so amounted to a dereliction of duty in the same way that Callaghan 's statement misunderstood the political content of media imagery . |
| 7 | For example , the Treasury 9¾ per cent stock 2002 instanced above stood at a price of £103 ( £103.09375 ) at the close of business on Friday 28 February , 1992 when the running yield could be derived as follows : |
| 8 | There was no use pretending it had n't happened : I had wished for a pure Pacific experience , a truly new world experience at the dawning of this day , yet it had become hopelessly muddied with a relic of the old world and the Ocean whose time , we are now supposed to believe , has passed . |
| 9 | But rule also depended on a degree of common purpose between kings and at least a proportion of the secular magnates . |
| 10 | Marrakesh really arrived as a marathon on January 13 when Osmiro de Souza Silva of Brazil , ran alone from 29K to a 2:09:55 ( $12,000 cash ) victory over a respectable field . |
| 11 | At the southern end of the valley where the sky was brighter , a horseman now appeared , his dark mount reined in , its head pulling to one side as it slowed then came to a halt . |
| 12 | She turned to go then paused at a shout from the foreman . |
| 13 | Here again , though , this is not by itself to say that where a co-operative can get properly started in a capital intensive business , it would find it more difficult to compete than would a conventionally organised firm . |
| 14 | The whale catches also increased until a peak in 1965 when the Japanese caught no fewer than 26 986 whales . |
| 15 | A new digital camera , which allows images to be captured then downloaded into a PC has been unveiled by Logitech , a market leader in computer input devices . |