Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This led on in later generations to a widespread belief among orthodox Christians that the Bible should be looked upon as a compendium of truths directly revealed by God , inerrant and totally consistent in all its parts , and thus the supremely authoritative source of information not only on points of doctrine but on any other matters on which it might touch . |
| 2 | This went on for 13 months until my parents realised that I needed medical attention . |
| 3 | This went on for two weeks . |
| 4 | This went on for three hours , by which time they 'd attracted a sizeable body of fans into the hotel foyer , much to the consternation of the management who had to call the police to break up the party . |
| 5 | This went on for three hours while the rest of us were preparing for the move to Canjuers . |
| 6 | Mr Young said that now the trust had its core holdings , the second tranche of money would be invested more slowly with some held back for new opportunities . |
| 7 | This type of information used to be held on an IBM mainframe computer , but this closed down for financial reasons . |
| 8 | It is late evening and Marianne , Walter and I have just finished a large couscous washed down by several bottles of heady local wine . |
| 9 | These came up in some numbers right from the beginning to the end of this strip . |
| 10 | These went on for fifteen minutes , again under the hard gaze of Sister Mary . |
| 11 | These went on for several hours , rattling doors and windows almost continuously . |
| 12 | Compared with the compensation payments introduced during the first stage of price liberalization , these went up from 750 lei to 2,100 lei per month for workers , and from 400 lei to 1,470 lei for pensioners , while there were also increases in child benefits , maternity benefits and student grants . |
| 13 | Niall Hammond , of the Bowes Museum , said the three trenches they dug all came up against Victorian foundations of a disused cellar . |
| 14 | On collecting these names I began to wonder whether I was being taken in but so many came up on independent lists that the villagers sent in that I am sure they are authentic . |
| 15 | And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were . |
| 16 | The kids at my new school all went round in little gangs , spoiling for a fight — nothing serious , just pushing other kids over and jeering at them . |
| 17 | The nurse had n't been round yet to close the curtains and Charles Paris and Harry Chiltern looked out on galvanized frames of blackness . |
| 18 | ‘ We all grew up with American films , but looking like me there was no way on earth that people would think I was an actor . |
| 19 | ‘ We all grew up with American films , but looking like me there was no way on earth that people would think I was an actor . |
| 20 | K. R. Whenever they had a raid on the Chinese gambling , they took them all in the cells and they all sent out for Chinese meals , and when they 'd all gone to the Main Bridewell in the middle of the night — ‘ 125 , scrub out ! ’ — and I had to take my tunic off and scrub out after the Chinese had been . |
| 21 | For framework knitters in the hosiery manufacture of the east Midlands , their historian William Felkin described a golden age lasting from 1755 to 1785 , but a more recent authority has suggested that although knitters by the time of Luddism 's outbreak in 1811 looked back to pre-war wages of 10 to 12s ( 50-60p ) for plain work and up to 30s ( £1.50 ) for skilled , they were generally prosperous down to 1809 . |
| 22 | In Glasgow , Fazzi Brothers ' Caffe-Bar , adjoining the Cambridge Street branch of the family 's 70-year-old delicatessen business , fits in nicely with the Glaswegian notion of la dolce vita : sparky but unhurried conversation , compulsive people-watching , searching critiques of the nearby Sauchiehall Street shoe shops , and comparative study of each other 's purchases , all washed down with copious amounts of coffee and a plate of voluptuous cakes . |
| 23 | She watched as night-grey filtered out to recognisable shapes : the beached boats , the shifting edge of the sea , the low houses slung along the road . |
| 24 | News for the 1990s backed up by 60 years of authoritative reporting . |
| 25 | She noticed that the horses drawing the ‘ olde ’ cabs were not all that well cared for , and several clinked along with loose shoes . |
| 26 | Ali Cemali , who had in the years between 888 and 891 moved on to other posts , was the first appointee to the new medrese and , though his salary is not specified , the course of his career to this point suggests that it can not have been less than 50 akce a day . |
| 27 | Roughly one-third of these children were in institutions ( community homes and approved schools , or assessment centres ) , one-third boarded out with foster parents , and one-third in their own homes . |
| 28 | Peter Shuker , principal of the Darlington College of Technology , said half of the county 's over-16s stayed on in sixth forms or colleges like his . |
| 29 | Except perhaps , another New Zealander , Professor Ernest Rutherford , who , at Manchester University , succeeded in splitting the atom and in the process started off a chain of events that would be even more shattering than that set off by two shots . |
| 30 | They both sat back with smug smiles on their faces and looked at Jacqui , like favourite uncles watching a child unwrap their Christmas present . |