Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | These are now privately owned and only emerged from obscurity again a few years ago : sphinxes and winged sirens , the heads of minotaurs and owls , personifications of night and masks with invisible eyes . |
2 | Extra guests could be put up in the boat itself , which had a permanent skipper and crew , enabling Bernard and Laura to escape at short notice to idyllic , inaccessible Mediterranean islands , Laura still could not swim and often groaned with seasickness . |
3 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
4 | She has been hopelessly sentimentalized and hopelessly magicalized by tradition , with the result that Christian feminism has come to be uncomfortable with her . |
5 | Duhem is suggesting that individual non-observation sentences can not be conclusively verified or conclusively falsified by observation , by the evidence of our senses . |
6 | A 250 bp 32 P-end-labelled DNA fragment containing deoP2 sequences from -116 to +18 was mixed with CRP and/or CytR , protein-DNA complexes allowed to form and then reacted with hydroxyl radicals . |
7 | When maturation is complete , the bottles are chilled , opened under pressure into a tank , filtered and then rebottled after dosage , all under pressure . |
8 | The local overlords , the magnates of the neighbourhood , who had spent a frenzied few weeks petitioning and being petitioned by their would-be superiors , had not been invited and therefore sat at home , drinking behind closed doors and not available to enlighten their countrymen . |
9 | The grim 132-page report names British nationals arrested but never prosecuted for child sex crimes in the Phillippines . |
10 | I do n't know if he was sexually assaulted and maybe died of shock . |
11 | Elections were held in June 1973 but the assembly was first paralysed by the Protestant-led ‘ workers ’ strike' and then prorogued by Parliament . |
12 | I 've climbed or just walked in Range West on many occasions . |
13 | The history of the game is littered with talented players who were never capped and so defected to league . |