Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally it was abandoned in a back street in Kingsbury , and the four students thankfully made their way on foot to Wembley Tube Station . |
| 2 | In 1861 the benighted Admiral Putiatin , Minister of Education , not only supported the idea of transferring censorship to the Ministry of Internal Affairs but also proposed the approach to the press that eventually found its way into law . |
| 3 | They punished Western support for the Israeli side with a massive price hike , and effectively maintained their control over world prices for almost a decade . |
| 4 | She stood , arms extended but bent , and slowly moved her head from side to side . |
| 5 | Frank made an intricate gesture , which , although of alien origin , never the less conveyed its meaning with crystal clarity . |
| 6 | I only used my cape at home . |
| 7 | He had been remarkably restrained until then , but when she felt him ease her jeans down over her hips she suddenly caught his sense of urgency as , with a low groan , he roughly pulled her even closer , burying his head against the soft skin of her thighs . |
| 8 | Unfortunately these conditions also much reduced their rate of march and they got only as far as Polmood , for they were now in the high uplands of the infant Tweed and the going difficult at the best of times . |
| 9 | Chester so churned my stomach at breakfast this morning I could not face my sausage , egg and Guinness . |
| 10 | It might be thought that the present generation of ‘ younger ’ retired women have , by virtue of improved access to occupational pension benefits , greatly reduced their risk of poverty in old age , which for women officially begins five years earlier than men at the ‘ pensionable age ’ of 60 . |
| 11 | Richard only estimated his age in relationship to his duties . |
| 12 | People say he only joined your team by mistake because he loves dancing . |
| 13 | For example , the extensive list of qualifications and caveats which Marshall appended to his exposition of the quantity theory of money had threatened to cast such a long shadow over its validity that Marshall appeared to take freight and retarait behind the ceteris paribus stipulation which so typified his approach to economics . |
| 14 | Amy , his wife , naturally relinquished her job as secretary to John and actively encouraged him . |
| 15 | Baron von Munchausen was an eighteenth-century Hanoverian soldier who greatly exaggerated his prowess in war — and his battle-scars . |
| 16 | Until 1 January 1977 , if for any reason — including accident , redundancy or retirement — the farm worker 's employment ceased , so did his security of tenure . |
| 17 | A flicker of something crossed his face but he said nothing , merely inclined his head in return . |
| 18 | Wilson , unlike Carter , sufficiently over-came his lack of sympathy with the system to compile an impressive record of legislative achievement early in his first term . |
| 19 | WILLIAMS ) came in at a run from the " Coriolanus " matin e e , still in his toga , and just made his position in time . ] |
| 20 | Howard finally got his gun into position and fired one barrel at their original assailant , causing him to dive headlong back behind the palm tree . |
| 21 | If Eliot largely renounced his interest in childhood and in anthropology during the few years that followed , he gave up neither entirely . |
| 22 | From Merchiston he went to St Andrews University : ‘ I largely paid my way through university through scholarships and conjuring , with a little bit of support from my father , ’ he said . |
| 23 | He was so innocent of the ways of the world that Hari just shook her head in amazement . |
| 24 | Billy did n't bother to answer , he just raised his thumb in agreement and snuggled even deeper into his coat . |
| 25 | Their starting point was to set up a model in which there were no opportunities for arbitrage by specifying an equality between those investors taking their returns solely in terms of capital gains by selling before the share went ex-dividend , and those who sold after the share went ex-dividend and thus collected their return in capital gains and dividends : where . |
| 26 | ‘ Lots of people say it must be easy for my family to carry on in music and that I must have taught them everything — but I feel they just inherited their love of music as it 's in our blood . ’ |
| 27 | The soldiers happily carried out their orders and , having lost their fruit , the inhabitants soon lost their desire for rebellion . |
| 28 | Stewart meanwhile belied his dislike of opening and played his most assured ( and highest ) innings yet for his country . |
| 29 | In the League , Thorpe A finally relinquished their grip on Division One status after being whitewashed by St Andrews A and beaten 8–2 by Windsor Buzzards , despite a couple of good wins from Dave Austin . |
| 30 | Most commonly , tales are told of mermaids who fall in love with mortal men and painfully shed their tail in order to be able to live with them on land . |