Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this would be to simplify things for , as I have argued , black kids generally come from the kind of family backgrounds which are not suited for their own educational needs — for reasons which I spelled out in the last chapter , but will summarize as ‘ neglect ’ or ‘ unattainable goals ’ . |
| 2 | Likewise as I pointed out in the last chapter , in dramatic playing a boy may be required to adopt the function of an Abbot of Durham Cathedral , and in so far as he continues to see himself in that role he will continue to signal to others that that is what he is doing . |
| 3 | As I pointed out in the last chapter , working-class attachment to institutional religion never picked up from the moment that peasants moved off the land and became urbanised . |
| 4 | The town itself is in most respects unremarkable by comparison with its Devon neighbours , and like many of them flourished especially in the seventeenth century , heyday of the West Country cloth trade : when Celia Fiennes passed close by in 1698 , she found all Exeter and the country around making ‘ an incredible quantity of serges ’ which were sent from the port of Topsham to be sold in Europe . |
| 5 | ‘ Tell me how you got here in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | You seem to specialise in these narrow victories ; you went away in the last round , up to Greenwich and also had a narrow one there . |
| 7 | This we mentioned briefly in the last chapter . |
| 8 | ‘ With the fear of God in us , we played passionately in the second half and ran out 3-2 winners , so Cloughie 's unpredictability in letting us stay up late on the Friday night was vindicated . ’ |
| 9 | We went out in the first round and Lee did n't ask me anything until he 'd hit his drive . |
| 10 | ‘ I think we did well in the first game at Ibrox , despite the result . |
| 11 | As we pointed out in the last chapter , not only is the amount of redistribution to be undertaken by the government a pure value judgement on which different individuals and different political parties will disagree , but there is an inevitable trade-off between the competing objectives of efficiency and equity . |
| 12 | The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue . |
| 13 | In some years in the 1430s wages failed to keep pace with high prices , but they rose again in the next two decades . |
| 14 | He said they played well in the first half , but then things went wrong in the second half , when Orrell had a bit of luck in scoring after a knock on . |
| 15 | They came out in the second half a much more committed side and proceeded to alter the whole complexion of the game with two goals from Paul Doney and Andrew Milne . |
| 16 | Although average 1989 wage increases , at 9.5 per cent , ran well ahead of output , they slowed down in the fourth quarter , possibly helping to reduce the budget deficit to about 75 per cent of its planned level . |
| 17 | They died out in the eighteenth century as a result of deforestation and hunting . |
| 18 | United nearly drew first blood , but they fell apart in the second half . |
| 19 | They went ahead in the 30th minute when Tommy Gaynor skipped away from a couple of tackles and let fly from 25 yards : no sign of gratitude there for Eoin Hand , Huddersfield 's manager , who had helped along his fellow-Irishman 's career in the early days at Limerick . |
| 20 | The interviewees ' subjective evaluations of the service provided by the Drugs Council are intimately related to the reason why they went there in the first place . |
| 21 | But they struck back in the last 10 minutes with tries by their flanker Andy Williams and scrum-half Howard Evans . |
| 22 | He headed in in the 31st minute after Wright 's centre had taken a deflection , then scored from the penalty spot after being brought down by Bennett . |
| 23 | Courier 's only glimmer of hope came when he broke serve in the first game of the third set , but it was only a momentary lapse of concentration by the German , who so likes to win in front of his countrymen and women , as he broke back in the next game . |
| 24 | He cleaned up in the 12th frame on his way to a 9–4 defeat of Ken Doherty in the third round of the UK Championship at Preston . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ If he does n't select and stalk his victim , and obviously he did n't in the last three cases , he 'd normally have to expect a long wait . |
| 26 | he did well in the last er |
| 27 | This is because as and when the trust repayed the loan which the settlor had guaranteed the settlor would benefit from being released from his guarantee obligations which he gave bounteously in the first place . |
| 28 | And he struck again in the 29th minute , chesting down a Trevor Francis cross and firing past the keeper from 12 yards . |
| 29 | Whilst some very local cult developed quickly , it spread only in the mid-fifteenth century , from which time come all the extant depictions of him ( complete with diabolical captive ) , in groups from Norfolk ( Cawston , Suffield , Gateley ) , Suffolk ( St Gregory 's , Sudbury , and possibly Bury St Edmunds Abbey ) and Devon ( Hennock , Alphington , and Wolborough ) ; two texts of a lengthy invocation to him ; and the prosecution ( in 1448 ) of the then vicar of North Marston for counterfeiting his head from an exhumed skull . |
| 30 | Three famous golf links lay below Patrick as he stood there in the last of the daylight — Royal Cinque Ports , Royal St. George 's and Prince 's . |