Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [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 | There was a red light up , and he was stopped by a policeman as he reached the opposite pavement and duly asked for the appropriate number of marks . |
| 3 | In February 1974 the original lessee assigned the lease to the second defendant , a company , which duly entered into the required covenant directly with the landlord . |
| 4 | The issue rarely surfaced in the showery south-east until a string of droughts in the 1980s . |
| 5 | The danger and the extra effort needed to shoe a colt for the first time was recognized by a custom called in some districts of East Anglia by the term First Nail which presumably referred to the violent shock the first nail would give to the colt . |
| 6 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 7 | I he opportunity for doing so arose in the Middle East . |
| 8 | Martin O'Neill only got to the eighth frame in his match against Mark Rowing . |
| 9 | He not only got through the first round but he reached the final again ! |
| 10 | I only got inside the front door cos it 's Tuesday night her night in the kitchen , so I went back home and he did n't half swear at me , he said you bloody well go again you want your head tested , I could have cried I thought oh well cos I did n't feel like rushing around |
| 11 | The decline of Woodstock relative to Oxford merely led to the increasing importance of the present main road . |
| 12 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 13 | It worked out and then they only lived in the other half while they were doing it , was n't it ? |
| 14 | In the tenth century the Kiev merchants used to half-drag , half-row their small boats , monoxyla , past the Dnieper rapids on the way to the Byzantine markets , constantly menaced by the ferocious Pecheneg people inhabiting the southern steppes . |
| 15 | He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | He very much objected to the inevitable contraction of Nicandra to Nico , which seemed to him common . |
| 18 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 19 | And the , the water to bathe in came from the local river and er it was very very sandy and it just looked like mud that you were having to get in and do your bath . |
| 20 | Perhaps hindered by the unflattering acoustic of the concert hall , the result was all too often lost in a welter of sound and over-stressed consonants with all the control of a recalcitrant Sunday school outing . |
| 21 | The phenomenon of crumbling historic buildings , greatly accelerated in the twentieth century , is also attributed to the blight of acid rain . |
| 22 | Because the tall , dark and extremely handsome man — whom she only recognised as the mega-rich industrialist , Ross Wyndham when it was far too late to do anything about it ! — seemed to move across the pavement with the speed of light . |
| 23 | The Gedge boy , who apparently spied on the entire population of Dynmouth , had no doubt seen him . |
| 24 | That child labour not only existed in the pre-factory economy but was strongly approved of does not of itself make blinkered sentimentalists of those who reacted so strongly to the " dark , satanic mills " . |
| 25 | On one occasion a friend of mine , resplendent in new sports jacket and flannels , rather unwisely walked across the diagonal market path . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Thrilled with the sight of the hot coffee , Mother took a paper cup and gingerly walked towards the darkened screening room . |
| 28 | Some researchers had become so daunted by the devious nature of the virus , which can hide within the cells of the body , that they felt a vaccine would be impossible . |
| 29 | .. When , at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon we rounded the last promontory which separated us from what was once the magnificent panorama of St Pierre , we suddenly perceived at the opposite extremity of the roadstead the Riviere Blanche with its crest of vapour , rushing madly into the sea . |
| 30 | This time she did n't wait to see if anyone would come , but swiftly glanced to the small instrument tray . |