Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was the same friend who eventually led Jean to the dead man 's ‘ passion wagon ’ caravan . |
| 2 | Soon after the liberation of Poland he joined the Polish regular army as a war correspondent and eventually entered Berlin with the First Polish Infantry Division . |
| 3 | Hateley , who virtually single-handedly beat Leeds in the last round , said : ‘ We could have been 4–0 down . |
| 4 | Rosa gently teased Erika about the vestigial romance but was serious about the advice she gave , that Erika was not , repeat not , to get involved with a boy-friend , especially with the Indoor Championships drawing nearer , and with the Ministry of Sport keeping an eye on her . |
| 5 | Computer Reseller News and its vendor sources say Intel , which already bumped Pentium into the first quarter , will be delaying it until late next year because of those heat dissipation and manufacturing problems we told you about ( UX No 410 ) . |
| 6 | The British insisted that it be worked by British operators — reluctantly agreed to — and it finally entered Australia in the Northern Territories . |
| 7 | Tall and elegant , her silver-grey hair styled into a smooth bob , she stood in the doorway and coolly surveyed Rachel with the same steady , grey-eyed gaze of her son . |
| 8 | None of it is local stone : there is a tradition , perhaps connected with the Venetians or , later , the Turks , who successively occupied Crete till the late nineteenth century , of importing these stones and making jewellery . |
| 9 | The seventeen-year-old all-round sportsman , who plays his tennis at Matchpoint Bramhall tennis club Stockport , duly faced Carrara in the following day 's final with a great sense of expectation . |
| 10 | yeah no its twenty five to ten though , still got Poirot on the other side |
| 11 | Barthelsson was over the line at the start , put in his 720° turn and still beat Österlund to the first mark , a lead which he held until the end . |
| 12 | The World Boxing Organisation yesterday installed McMillan as the mandatory challenger to Palacio because of the ‘ unusual circumstances ’ surrounding the defeat , which keeps the Hoko show-down still a possibility . |
| 13 | Whoever we saw , they always said Bonjour in the friendly manner of cross-country skiers everywhere . |
| 14 | Wavell Wakefield not only organised , selected and captained the first RAF side to win the Inter Service tournament but also led England during the golden era of the 1920s . |
| 15 | Dorahy , 38 , played with Leigh and Hull Kingston Rovers and also led Halifax to the Regal Trophy final as player-coach before returning to Australia as number two at Newcastle Knights . |
| 16 | She also warned Quinn of the abrasive Kevin Brown , who had chosen her for this mission and had established himself in London with a team of eight to ‘ keep an eye on things ’ . |
| 17 | This episode — involving his own stage-managed ‘ resignation ’ as Prime Minister — definitively established Castro as the Maximum Leader and arbiter of power in Cuba . |
| 18 | Shortly afterwards , he probably ceded Lothian to the Scottish king Kenneth , and received his submission and that of other princes , including the kings of Gwynedd and Strathclyde . |
| 19 | A comedy of errors as Collegians tried to clear from a defensive line out presented McCall with the simplest of scores . |
| 20 | A family drama five years ago awakened Steilmann to the ecological crisis — his daughter had taken a strong dental painkiller and was close to death because of an allergic reaction . |
| 21 | And Mrs Reveley immediately pinpointed Kempton as the next target . |
| 22 | As it happened , Walter Kamm almost dismissed Joyce after the first audition . |
| 23 | Trying to control the trembling in her legs , which felt as though they were made of cotton wool , Laura silently followed Ross across the green lawns to their guest cottage , where Carole had laid out the cold supper . |
| 24 | Graham and Laidlaw exchanged relieved glances then followed Jenkins into the white-walled corridor . |
| 25 | He then followed Duncan through the small terminal to where they could look out of the window at the tarmac ramp , on to the military side , where Duncan had seen the transporter . |
| 26 | The ‘ Cats ’ stormed through the Leinster championship and then destroyed Antrim in the second half of their All Ireland semi-final . |
| 27 | Songs like Heroin , Venus in Furs and Sister Ray firmly established Lou as the sleaziest bard on the block . |
| 28 | Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner . |
| 29 | A delegation of eight parliamentarians led by the president of the Senate , Dejean Belizaire , subsequently met Aristide in the Colombian city of Cartagena on Nov. 21-24 , but no agreement was reached . |
| 30 | Since the day of Rosie 's wedding reception , Huw had been a regular visitor at the Watermen , though Connor never told Ruth about the attempted assault on the young man by the Brotherhood 's Punishment Squad . |