Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The well-known debates over the religious implications of evolutionism were symptomatic of the social tensions that built up within an increasingly industrialized society . |
| 2 | I have seen two crows gang up on a mallard with a brood of young , and , while one bird tormented the duck into chasing it , the other sneaked in and made off with a still struggling duckling in its beak . |
| 3 | Again , a graphical function is generated and inserted on to an appropriately scaled graph . |
| 4 | Nigger barked in annoyance , and moved out into the more bearable climate of the dry heat rooms . |
| 5 | We turned left , took a deep breath , and changed down to the very smallest chaining . |
| 6 | of all surgery conducted , and came up with a most impressive figure . |
| 7 | McNeill Alexander adopted a different analytical technique , and came up with a much slower dinosaur than Bakker 's . |
| 8 | The second Lady Deverill , also riding side-saddle and turned out in a quite immaculate habit , pulled up alongside Artemis on a bay Artemis had n't seen before . |
| 9 | The drinkers , drunk as they were , full of glasses of wine , fell back from the man , who , with the rags he wore , had surprisingly clean white underpants — what struck Rab — raised his coat and squatted down as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 10 | Benin eased the velvet curtains apart and looked out over the brightly lit garden . |
| 11 | Julius strolled over and looked down at the quietly flowing water . |
| 12 | She emerged at the bottom of the hill and stared up at the brilliantly burning pyres by the cruig-morn . |
| 13 | Thus they were , in majority , from professional and administrative families , and grew up within the newly regularized ( reformed ) educational system of ‘ public ’ school and university . |
| 14 | A light , shone on to the mirror and reflected on to a fairly distant surface , would provide an initial doubling in amplification of the movement of the mirror , and the farther the light was projected , the greater the subsequent amplification of any change in potential difference . |
| 15 | So he went back to bed and slid in beside the now silent , still figure of Emily , and nursed his throbbing right wrist with his left hand and imagined himself as one of those recumbent stone knights you sometimes see in churches , stretched out with arms crossed at the breast , cold and grey and dead , feeling no pain . |
| 16 | ‘ We were frustrated at the time but came out with a completely proven business plan , ’ Mr Church says . |
| 17 | The press had been hostile at the beginning of the 1974 general strike , but swung over to a more balanced view once the electric power went off and the country came to a halt . |