Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As most of the decisions are now taken in Brussels and merely rubber-stamped by Westminster , just what is the point in voting ? |
| 2 | The Portuguese escudo joined the European exchange rate mechanism on Friday and yesterday shot to pole position , hitting the top of its 6 p.c. band , and heaping pressure on the pound which remains the weak man of Euro currencies . |
| 3 | He returned to Washington and then went to Switzerland . |
| 4 | His widow and children returned to England and later emigrated to Australia where one of the daughters , Maria Louisa , made a good marriage . |
| 5 | In the meantime , the King gathered an army around himself at Shrewsbury and then headed for Oxford . |
| 6 | Or to jeer at the discredited Baltic Communists who rode in behind the thugs , proclaimed themselves in charge in Lithuania and Latvia and then scuttled for cover . |
| 7 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 8 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 9 | Shortly before midnight he was hit by a car in Victoria Road and later died in hospital . |
| 10 | During that time , as in the case of many other trappings of modern America , it has crossed the Atlantic and subsequently emerged in Britain . |
| 11 | His younger brother , who lives in the same house in Umtata , met Mr Mandela in August and subsequently travelled to ANC headquarters in Lusaka . |
| 12 | In the north , building design had much in common with northern Europe and primarily evolved from Lombard styles ; in central Italy , particularly Tuscany , coloured marbles were used as veneers in decoration both on the outside and inside of the buildings giving a colourful rather than plastic effect to the decoration . |
| 13 | Scott then joined Grissell and Peto and also worked on Hungerford Market . |
| 14 | Maguire did the business as expected at Cheltenham and then travelled to Fairyhouse to ride Omerta in the Irish National and achieved the same result again . |
| 15 | The suave personal manner and the bleached smile — the style pioneered by Kevin Keegan and currently apotheosized by Gary Lineker — ‘ the totalitarianism of the totally pleasant personality ’ in a phrase of Norman Mailer 's — these have paved the way for the FA 's new cash-rich , super-sanitized super league which will come into being next season . |
| 16 | I went into London and I picked up this Tokai and just fell in love with it — it just had the perfect neck . |
| 17 | From Jibuti my father crossed to Aden and then went to Cairo to confer with Sir Reginald Wingate , the High Commissioner , while we went to Berbera to stay with Geoffrey Archer , the Commissioner in British Somaliland ; he and his wife had stayed with us at the Legation for Zauditu 's coronation in February . |
| 18 | Certainly Polydore Vergil seems to have fallen victim to his own condensed chronology when he argues that it was the events at Stony Stratford which caused Hastings to mistrust Gloucester and so led to Hastings ' opposition and execution . |
| 19 | Certainly Polydore Vergil seems to have fallen victim to his own condensed chronology when he argues that it was the events at Stony Stratford which caused Hastings to mistrust Gloucester and so led to Hastings ' opposition and execution . |