Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As well as William I also spoke to Jim .
2 And on Sunday afternoon I often went to Kidlington , to eat large teas and remember another world .
3 It was one of the worst trips I ever made in Venturous and it was my last .
4 In fact , the first piece I ever wrote about fish was on this topic .
5 It will be noted they provided the bulk of the players for the Canadian side which so impressed against France and New Zealand in the World Cup .
6 Such scalability is also at the heart of Sun Microsystems ' Sparc design , steadily gaining favour with manufacturers which formerly concentrated on PCs .
7 They seem , however , to have had little support amongst the lords , and the opposition which undoubtedly existed to Gaunt 's reversal of the acts of the Good Parliament lacked leadership and co-ordination .
8 The parents agreed that the priority problem was temper tantrums which always occurred after refusal of Joanne 's demands .
9 The outcome of this meeting however , was that the Task Force not only decided to question the research priorities of the ARC , but also their methodology which typically relied upon research contracts awarded to outside firms of consultants to whom : —
10 There seemed to be wide horizontal bands of light which slowly changed in intensity , with brighter spots growing and fading in places mysteriously against the deeps of eternity .
11 I 've been seriously caught out more than once on early ambitious trips — the ice axe which nearly stayed at home was worth its weight in gold .
12 She was the only midwife in our district and if the women could n't afford her the neighbours helped , a practice which often ended in tragedy .
13 She experienced a sense of detachment before cutting herself , and the act seemed to relieve feelings of anxiety and tension which usually arose from problems in her relationship with her boyfriend .
14 He failed to appear at court to answer a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm which allegedly happened in Durham Prison last July .
15 Corporal Wix was the retired soldier who now worked for General Francis .
16 Ballymena worked hard but it still was n't enough against a low-key Portadown side who only clicked into gear at the finish .
17 Restored in 1960 for the Temora Aero Club she eventually fell into disuse and was sold to Ray Windred of Dungong , New South Wales , as a basket case .
18 Secondly , the young stranger who also passed through Godstowe at the same time — was it just a coincidence , or was he connected with the murder victims ? ’
19 Thus , low CD4 counts without HIV infection , immunosuppressive therapy , or other known causes of immunosuppression occur in Ethiopian Jews who recently arrived in Israel .
20 The cause of all this activity was an illfated meeting in December , up north in the District of Columbia , between Mr Marion Barry , DC 's mayor , and Mr Charles Lewis , a St Thoman who once worked for Mr Barry 's government .
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22 Barker and Greenfield were working-class lads who both arrived at Cambridge University in 1968 and were repelled by their first ever contact with the upper classes .
23 And Lisa 's heart brimmed over as , with a look of adoration , Alexander responded with the words she never tired of hearing .
24 The Belgian authorities immediately commenced an investigation with the active participation of the UK accredited representative , Geoffrey Wilkinson ( who happened to be top of the list at the time ) , and his team of advisers comprising Geoffrey Feltham , who subsequently took over as head of the AIB engineering section , Jimmy Lett and the RAF consultant pathologists who normally worked with AIB .
25 Walesa argued , however , that such a system would politicize the union , and that it would undermine the rights of the thousands of non-government supporters who currently belonged to Solidarity .
26 ‘ Passion 's prisoners , ’ she offered with acid amusement but none of the simple pleasure she usually took in alliteration .
27 Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident .
28 Though it was a thriving concern for several centuries it eventually fell into decline and finally out of existence with the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537 .
29 Well my Lord , all we know is that erm when the report was served on the defendant it then came through court they were going to have to call Mr and then last week it was suggested er that er not only did they not agree but that they were going to try to prevent it being admitted in evidence .
30 The Italian diva , whose operatic performances he faithfully attended from La Scala to the Met — for four months ?
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