Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By chance the introduction of better rigging more or less coincided with the gold discoveries in California . |
| 2 | Another time his father might have laughed or mildly remonstrated about the cruelty of the imitation . |
| 3 | For many that was Buncrana or Fahan in County Donegal where they surfed , skiied , took boat trips or just lay in the sun . |
| 4 | I thought you were here at first , or just nipped to the pub or something . ’ |
| 5 | In 1966/67 and 1973/74 six or more birds wintered in the county , but the autumn and winter of 1974/75 were quite remarkable , with a total of 45–50 birds altogether , of which at least 20 wintered ; 15 or more arrived from the south at Beachy Head on 22 October 1974 . |
| 6 | At many moments of weakness , or love , Thomas had spent far more money than he could afford or even wished for the sake of Simon 's joy in the holidays . |
| 7 | Even if a relatively highly geared mortgage can be obtained , the cost of indemnity insurance on such mortgages has doubled or even tripled since the boom . |
| 8 | Most studies do not use representative samples , and personality traits are typically assessed after the eating disorder has developed , thus making it difficult to determine whether the personality features caused , maintained , or simply resulted from the eating disorder . |
| 9 | They sat in rows and watched television or simply stared into the distance . |
| 10 | But funerals in any expensive way here with us , are now accounted but as a fruitlesse vanitie , insomuch that almost all the ceremoniall rites of obsequies heretofore used , are altogether laid aside : for we see daily that Noblemen , and Gentlemen of eminent ranke , office , and qualitie , are either silently buried in the night time , with a Torch , a two-penie Linke , and a Lanterne ; or parsimoniously interred in the day-time , by the helpe of some ignorant countrey-painter , without the attendance of any one of the Officers of Armes , whose chiefest support , and maintenance , hath ever depended upon the performance of such funerall rites , and exequies . |
| 11 | Other couples wandered in their wake , or else lingered on the hilltop by the Commemorative stone , happier in their partners . |
| 12 | The area was featureless for precision flying , with large square fields either filled with cattle or recently ploughed after the wheat harvest . |
| 13 | Competitive Regulation : here , the aim is to ensure that competition is not eliminated or seriously hampered by the formation of cartels . |
| 14 | As an undercover customs agent based in Tampa , Florida , it was his suggestion to target a small-time Colombian drug-money launderer called Gonzalo Mora Jnr that eventually led to the uncovering of a huge laundering operation centred on BCCI . |
| 15 | Although little emerged from the conference in terms of new financial proposals , it was agreed that there should be nationwide targets for literacy , scientific and mathematical knowledge , vocational training , better teacher training , a reduction of dropout rates , and drug-free schools . |
| 16 | As the hacks speculated about the cloud of black smoke that suddenly appeared over the palace roof — it did not mean that no decision had been taken , only that a chimney had caught fire — the President was browsing in his favourite bookshop , Les Arcades , just below The Sunday Telegraph 's Paris office . |
| 17 | Analysis of these omissions from the W7 showed that about a quarter were simply inflexions of words that already existed in the dictionary . |
| 18 | The document that finally emerged in the name of the committee was considerably longer than that of School F , and was very formally set out . |
| 19 | It was all so innocent but Fred 's face had darkened and he had become quiet as he went about his work , the occasional grunt of irritation replacing the tuneless whistling and humming that usually emanated from the kitchen . |
| 20 | Instead , the embryos possessed a neuroepithelium that gradually tapered towards the diencephalon ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 21 | From the head of Haweswater ascend high Street , named after the Roman road that once ran along the ridge between Blea Water and Riggindale , on a well defined path . |
| 22 | The deep beam that once ran across the deckhead in line with the forward edge of the chart table has been removed and with it the possibility of scalping tall members of the crew every time they made their way forward through the saloon . |
| 23 | The palisaded earthwork that once lay across the neck of the promontory , beside which they foregathered , was beaten half flat ; and the huts , once the two parties of principals had made their way inside , were mostly empty and ruinous . |
| 24 | Our reporter Tim Hurst has spent five days on board , as the Gloucester prepared for her new role , and also visited Albania , a country that once lived under the world 's toughest dictatorship . |
| 25 | Unknown to the Orcs , the crown was working its power upon Azhag , for it was an ancient and evil device that once belonged to the Liche Lord Nagash himself , and his power and his spirit still clung to it . |
| 26 | In fact the street names and the rest belong with the extremely important disjunctive flotsam of the book : paintpots , old rope , the odd sock , boots that once belonged to the Secretary at the English Embassy , twists of paper , egg-shells , fish-guts , frayed blood-soaked strips torn from trouserbottoms and coat-pockets , an axe-sling in ribbons ( ‘ Little bits of tom linen can not possibly arouse suspicion ! , ’ ) half-eaten meals , small change , miscellaneous pawned objects , candle-ends , trousseau-stuff ( ‘ fancy boxes , dressing-cases , ornaments , dress material , and all that sort of junk from Knopf 's and the English Shop ’ ) broken crocks ( cherepki ) , and skulls ( cherepi ) . |
| 27 | This point was well illustrated in a Church row that once broke over the head of a certain man . |
| 28 | The name is an ancient word referring to a Saxon village that once stood to the north of Darlington between Beaumont Hill and Walworth . |
| 29 | The ash which had been falling on St Pierre since the beginning of May 1902 continued to accumulate , sifting down softly to cover the ruins of St Pierre in a grey pall and burying many of the bodies that still lay in the debris . |
| 30 | That endurance was not a quality that induced ready sympathy from a class that still looked on the constable as a kind of public flunkey . |