Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're dyed also naturally in the medieval way with red for the madder and then welled to give the yellow as the basis of digris and then a woad an indigo from woad erm slightly cheating there because we could n't have enough woad , we have to use import the actual substance . |
| 2 | This model provided a way of visualizing the pattern of morphogenetic systems over the earth 's surface during the Cainozoic and so lent itself to a clear way of integrating contemporary world zones with those of the past when ice sheets were non-existent or much less extensive . |
| 3 | The contribution of wife 's earnings to total household earnings showed some increase during the 1970s and then stabilized . |
| 4 | He told Sharpe his patrol was one of the many that daily scouted south to the French border and beyond ; this particular troop had been ordered to explore the villages south and east of Mons down as far as the Sambre , but not to encroach on Prussian territory . |
| 5 | In the other compartment Sherry and Galef put a ‘ tutor ’ bird — one of the four that already knew how to open the milk containers — and a milk container . |
| 6 | This allowed a large amount of compatibility between software and peripherals of the existing and newly developed IBM machines . |
| 7 | Yeah , well before sh he was born , she stopped doing them and er she phoned up out of the blue and so said to her , no they live at Bognor I think or something . |
| 8 | Certainly this was the purpose of the protracted and much resented Quo Warranto enquiry into private franchises and liberties , an enquiry which extended from 1274 until 1294 when baronial opposition finally forced its abandonment . |
| 9 | The US stopped supporting Ho Chi Minh , believing him to be a puppet of the Chinese and instead gave their support to the French . |
| 10 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |
| 11 | When she sank to the seat she had recently vacated he paced about a little and then swung to face her , his dark eyes angry . |
| 12 | The reference is to the three cantons ( Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden ) which originally got together to form the Swiss Confederation , along with the fourth that soon joined them , Luzern . |
| 13 | Armstrong could also be among the all-weather winners with the improving and well weighted Quattro in the Ascom Tele-Nova Handicap at Lingfield tomorrow . |
| 14 | Everything needing a temporary home found its way into the stable and then became a permanency . |
| 15 | The tentacle pores are quite large each is armed with a rounded or slightly pointed scale-like tentacle scale . |
| 16 | Two hot records from the obscure but heavily collected Hooj Choons label from Felix and Hyper Go-Go , plus The Ragga Twins ’ fine ‘ Shine Eye ’ , Peter Bouncer 's ‘ So Here I Come ’ , plus Finitribe , Phuture Assassins etc . |
| 17 | The discovery of the three devices in the past two days may mark a reappearance of the ‘ tartan terrorism ’ which flared in the 1970s and mostly disappeared as the perpetrators of various bank robberies and explosions were jailed . |
| 18 | In contrast the United Kingdom and what was West Germany saw a small increase in the 1970s and then stabilised their share through the 1980s . |
| 19 | Wherever the records of mankind 's history and prehistory are to be found , whether in the ancient and strangely charactered , but nevertheless understandable by the learned , writings of bygone civilisations , or in the numerous findings of decades of archaeological investigations into the past history of human life , there is always evidence of belief in some form of ‘ god ’ . |
| 20 | The issue played an important part in the recent and well publicised Barlow Clowes affair , and resulted in the case . |
| 21 | In fact this banal verse , which forms a part of the novel At Swim-Two-Birds , is a satire on the cult of imbecile proletarian writers that began in the thirties and later reached its apotheosis under Joan Littlewood . |
| 22 | He opened up the Museum to scholars and architectural historians by writing many articles on Soane and his collections for the architectural press in the 1920s and also embarked on a series of publications about Soane : The Works of Sir John Soane ( 1924 ) , an edition of Soane 's Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture ( 1929 ) and The Portrait of Sir John Soane ( 1927 ) , as well as a number of pamphlets . |
| 23 | A FOSSIL originally found in the 1920s and recently rediscovered in the collection of the Institute of Geological Sciences in Edinburgh , has solved a major problem in palaeontology — the zoological interpretation of conodonts . |
| 24 | She went there in the Fifties and never came back . |
| 25 | Showing no remorse , Parrott compiled a 75-break ; he took the lead for the first time with a more orthodox run of 83 in the next and then forged 4–2 ahead with a superb 70 clearance to black in frame six after trailing 58–0 . |
| 26 | Robinson became much more confident and outspoken in the 1950s and eventually criticized the NAACP for its gradualist policies . |
| 27 | Like Shawell school , St Peter 's was built in the 1860s and so preceded the Elementary Education Act of 1870 that called for large numbers of schools , mainly in crowded urban areas , to be built with public rather than private money . |
| 28 | The pub manager put the takings in the safe and then locked up . |
| 29 | However , the book , which as a whole survives only in a revised and partially expurgated Latin translation by Rufinus made in 398 , damaged his reputation for pure orthodoxy . |
| 30 | I have now had the opportunity to look over the attached and also asked a colleague to do a quick proof-read . |