Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , the complex set up in the city meant that the bishop , appointed in the time of Sigibert , was only too easily suspected of treason by Guntram — and the arrival of Gundovald clearly did not help matters . |
| 2 | The WID then went on to encourage women to increase their productivity and saw their poverty as a reflection on underdevelopment , and not a result of their social status . |
| 3 | Tom evidently did n't want conversation either , so both were silent . |
| 4 | Conversation had now become difficult , and Diane still had n't given Pete a definite answer to his question . |
| 5 | Botham then bowled dismally to allow Greenidge and Haynes to make a good start , after which Richardson clocked up a steady hundred . |
| 6 | When he put both test tubes in b 's territory , b tried to attack a through the glass and a tried to flee ; Tinbergen then moved both test tubes across to a 's territory , and now a tried to attack , and b to flee . |
| 7 | You do n't have to LIKE the things that they do or say to LOVE them ; Jesus certainly did n't like Zacchaeus ' cheating , but he loved Zacchaeus ! |
| 8 | Although the team had been instructed by the Scottish team doctor to avoid taking any medicinal substances which might be banned by the laws of the game , Johnson frequently took either smelling salts or the mild psycho-motor drug Reactivin at club level to make him more alert when he went out to play . |
| 9 | Ludens had replied that Gildas simply did n't understand Marcus 's sense of humour . |
| 10 | As Damian spoke to them now , Katya and Lydia both glanced up to see Rachel standing alone on the dance area in her white bridal gown , watching Damian with intense passion in her green eyes . |
| 11 | George still did not answer Davis . |
| 12 | But yesterday Premier John Major again ruled out sending troops or air power to end the atrocities . |
| 13 | The EC simply had not got matters organised . |
| 14 | Gloucester thereupon went off to capture Berwick-upon-Tweed and , after thirteen changes of ownership over the centuries , made it once and for all English . |
| 15 | Smith somehow got back to clear Stuart Rimmer 's shot off the line after the Quakers ' new style offside trap was sprung by Paul Comstive , and Mark Prudhoe could only head the ball to the forward 's feet . |
| 16 | Thomas More went on to become Lord Chancellor of England and was executed for opposing the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn . |