Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 2 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 3 | Martin O'Neill only got to the eighth frame in his match against Mark Rowing . |
| 4 | He not only got through the first round but he reached the final again ! |
| 5 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 6 | ‘ But we were all so stupidly purist then , which obviously changed over the next couple of years , with Peter writing material like Man Of The World and Albatross . |
| 7 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 8 | The phenomenon of crumbling historic buildings , greatly accelerated in the twentieth century , is also attributed to the blight of acid rain . |
| 9 | The snobbish distinction between art and craft only began in the eighteenth century amongst collectors who felt it necessary to describe creativity according to their social or monetary values . |
| 10 | Described by the government as a Japanese cultural tradition , the consumption of whale meat only started after the second world war , when it filled a dietary gap . |
| 11 | Therefore the Supreme Court 's analysis of the case really only revolved around the second question presented to it , namely , conviction under the mail and wire fraud statutes . |
| 12 | But sometimes he only thought of the next performance . |
| 13 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 14 | Normally I only Listened for the first couple of minutes at a reading ; either I am preoccupied by having to read later myself , or some image causes my mind to drift away ; but N'dosi had a powerful , hypnotic voice and his poetry sparkled with fresh , delightful metaphors . |
| 15 | The incentive for Preston to win was to go top of the table … enough said in the second half Ellis ran away with it to make it three-nil … |
| 16 | So his foot went down two steps , and sure enough down came the wardrobe onto his toe and did n't do any damage and then just bounced to the next step down . |
| 17 | Tess generously tried for the last time to interest Angel in the other dairymaids . |
| 18 | It was stupid — but it just seemed like the last straw , Tom , and what can be done ? |
| 19 | The defendants argued that : ( a ) The proviso quoted above came within the first test enunciated by Lord Reid in the Esso case ( see p 7 above ) ie that it did not deprive the plaintiff of any freedom which he would otherwise have had ; accordingly that it did not operate as a restraint of trade and therefore that it was effective on the admitted facts to terminate the plaintiff 's entitlement to commission . |
| 20 | A thief just walked into the first floor office at Newman Lane industrial estate and then made off . |
| 21 | Public perception of the war in Europe was of a senseless conflict fought out in the mud and filth of Flanders , with thousands killed each day for the sake of only a few yards of territory soon lost in the next offensive . |
| 22 | Apart from some narrowing of the gender gap , this situation largely persisted through the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | The good feelings of the first day soon disappeared in the second round though . |
| 24 | There were two more changes before she finally boarded for the last leg . |
| 25 | Open cast , the earliest form of working , usually led to the second method when shafts were sunk into the hill . |
| 26 | One of Ibrahim 's former Jewish tenants still lived on the second floor . |
| 27 | Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months . |
| 28 | A HOME OFFICE minister yesterday intervened at the last minute to delay a Kurdish refugee being flown back to Turkey . |
| 29 | As we saw earlier the successful candidates are those who can muster a quota of votes , the same for all of them however great the disparity in the number of votes they respectively received at the first count . |
| 30 | As a result , illegitimacy and irregular marriage possibly receded in the second half of the century as working-class women sought refuge in chastity and conventional marriage . |