Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maria had become Mary because the management thought it sounded more Irish . |
| 2 | Man 's increasing domestication meant he became more interested in the appearance of his home , and in the materials he wore to keep out the cold and wet . |
| 3 | As the granite cooled it squeezed out hot fluids containing mineral ores in solution . |
| 4 | As war developed he took on many treasurerships for the army and Parliament , becoming one of the treasurers for war in 1645 as well as a commissioner for the customs in 1643 . |
| 5 | But as the war progressed he became increasingly preoccupied with understanding the world order . |
| 6 | Without implying that Lanfranc was an enemy of the monks of the cathedral church , the whole drift of the pope 's account of the incident suggests that the request for a confirmation of the monastic status of the cathedral had come from someone other than Lanfranc : from whom the request came he left entirely unclear . |
| 7 | As the problem of insider trading increased it became increasingly evident that s.16 was insufficient . |
| 8 | Although he preferred to train dancers from the age of nine , by the time the pantomime season came he had so many to cast he had to accept adults and teach them after they had finished a day 's work . |
| 9 | He would also give those away , and I remember when my poor father died he brought down one , if not two , lovely lilies which Mother put in a slender silver vase . |
| 10 | Car sales were uncomfortably large , and with them the July trade deficit ; but the Treasury thought it detected more comforting underlying trends . |
| 11 | The company said it shipped over 90,000 Sparc processors during the quarter , 57,000 of which were systems , the balance being upgrades and multiprocessors . |
| 12 | Anyway , at the luncheon concerned he adopted precisely this cautious attitude and the conversation was as sluggish as it is possible to imagine . |
| 13 | As his outburst proceeded it became vulnerably autobiographical as he began to talk of certain European traditions which , he said , Bacon was not extending but leading into a cul-de-sac . |