Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain said : ‘ I found out during the last few days . |
| 2 | I arrived there during the last day of it , and heard Dr. Bernardo pleading eloquently on behalf of the children he labours so unweariedly to rescue from the streets of our great cities , and also saw a gathering of the colporteurs gathered from the north and west , to get a word of encouragement in their laborious work of carrying pure literature into the homes of those who in numbers of instances live beyond the reach of the minister and the bookseller . |
| 3 | Homicide , on the other hand , is interpreted as a consequence of distinctive aspects of Sinhalese culture which changed little during the colonial period . |
| 4 | Boyd Orr 's malnourished population was drawn almost entirely from this section of the working class and it was their lives which changed little during the inter-war years as Carl Chinn , and other writers have noted . |
| 5 | Does the Secretary of State agree that , to obtain a balanced view , we must consider not only unemployment but employment and self-employment , which grew steadily during the 1980s under the Government and is set to grow further in the 1990s under the same Government ? |
| 6 | The premature declarations of imminent victory and raising of empty hopes contained the germ of the inevitable decline in confidence which set in during the following weeks , as the news from the eastern Front told a different story . |
| 7 | ‘ In the eighteenth century the city was transformed into a resort for English high society — being particularly associated , of course , with the name of Beau Nash , the great dandy and gamester who lived here during the 1740s and 50s . |
| 8 | The prosecution allege these scratches had been inflicted just an hour earlier by Mrs Chandler as she fought back during the brutal sex attack . |
| 9 | Now is the time to make a clean sweep of all the jobs you put off during the bad weather . |
| 10 | Despite this apparent vagueness there came into existence a body of individuals who may be referred to collectively as " the Left " , who were described as such by themselves and by their opponents and who acted together during the 1930s on most political issues . |
| 11 | Men and women who grew up during the swinging sixties may have a different view of sexual fidelity from those who are slightly older . |
| 12 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | Class conflict , when it broke out during the final quarter of the nineteenth century in the North and West , took the form of ‘ tenant right ’ , the demand by tenant farmers for greater security and the guarantee of their other interests against those of their landlords . |
| 14 | He spoke once during the second reading debate , spoke or intervened thirteen times in committee , once on report , and once on third reading . |
| 15 | He sat quietly during the 20 minute hearing , whilst his solicitor made an application for bail . |
| 16 | He is also extremely wealthy , and personally worth an additional Pounds 50m , thanks to the cash he raked in during the roaring 80s . |