Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 . |
| 2 | At first many counties established county-wide committees , but these either degenerated into battlegrounds for county/district rivalries or else atrophied through lack of business ( Alexander 1982a:37 — 8 ; 58 — 9 ) . |
| 3 | Blue Boar was dropped and replaced by Blue Steel Mk 1 , an inertially guided cruise missile with a range of 100 nautical miles that eventually came into service with the V Force in 1962 as part of Britain 's Independent Nuclear Deterrent . |
| 4 | The drama depicted is something that once happened in front of the canvas — where the painter claimed to be nature ! |
| 5 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 6 | Their wails and screams rose above the crackle of their burning homes and were made even more blood-curdling by the clangorous din of the church bells that frantically appealed to heaven for aid . |
| 7 | ‘ He evolved in such a way that really came to life for me , ’ she says . |
| 8 | There had always been more in common between the front benches than either had in common with their followers in the country . |
| 9 | During the period of the first Opium war ( 1840–2 ) Jardine pursued banking and insurance in London , and successfully stood for election in 1841 as the Whig candidate for Ashburton ( Devon ) . |
| 10 | So Jessie became a secretary to a Manchester solicitor and eventually fell in love with and married an officer during the First World War . |
| 11 | I was lucky in my tutors and my college , and like so many young men before and since fell in love with the place . |
| 12 | Besides cleaning up the city 's litter , he was determined to cure its chronic pollution problem , and duly went to war on public and private traffic , proposing a total ban from some areas . |
| 13 | In 1915 and ‘ 16 he had proved he had n't lost his old touch , and so died in bed at a great age , garnished with colourful honours , many of them from grateful countries whose soldiers he had n't got killed even on purpose . |
| 14 | This new evidence was held by the defence and only came to light during the trial . |
| 15 | Lisabeth and Fenella were being moved out of the way and generally harried from pillar to post . |
| 16 | I went into London and I picked up this Tokai and just fell in love with it — it just had the perfect neck . |
| 17 | I walked up to these fellers , a few paces , and just stood in front of them , looked at them — they knew what was wanted — ‘ Clear off ! ’ |
| 18 | The propertyless proletariat , exploited and progressively immiserized in line with Marx 's expectations , are in the less developed countries . |
| 19 | It is appropriate to recall that Elementary Matrices ( 1938 ) was printed nine times in U.K. , several times in U.S.A. , was translated into Russian and Czech , and finally republished in hardback in U.S.A. in 1983 . |
| 20 | I realised the truth when I became close to a friend of a friend and gradually fell in love with her . |
| 21 | Columbine too started life as a servant of the gods and gradually rose in rank from waiting on the aristocracy to conspiring with Harlequin in such ballets as The Good- Humoured Ladies , where the two of them appear as serving maid and waiter . |
| 22 | It was always true to reality and always walked in line with man 's progress and development . |
| 23 | I advised the Camerons to ensure that both dogs always moved towards them to receive any affection , and preferably sat on command before receiving it . |
| 24 | From 1870 to 1880 he was at the office of the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt [ q.v. ] , and later went into partnership with the latter 's son Matthew . |
| 25 | Rafferty had the opposite experience to Couples on the fifth , kicking off a bank into the lake , and also went in water on the long 16th . |
| 26 | She lived out of doors and often went to work in the fields with the contadini . |
| 27 | Hence Behaviouralism , the version of a more general behaviourism specific to International Relations , which we shall meet in the next chapter , is commonly spoken of as a Positive approach and often contrasted with Realism on this score . |
| 28 | She continued to visit her former foster parents and even went on holiday to Spain with them . |
| 29 | When he spent the Whitsun weekend with John Hayward in Cambridge , he looked " very haggard and washed out and dispirited " and simply went to sleep on Hayward 's bed for two afternoons . |
| 30 | Downstairs in the warehouse , French pork was being offloaded from vehicles and immediately reloaded for distribution in Moscow shops . |