Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This concept , brilliantly and amusingly elucidated in book of that name published the previous year by Professor C. Northcote Parkinson , stated : ‘ Work expands to fill the time available for its completion . ’ |
| 2 | It was probably at that time that Zborowski took Modigliani to visit Anders Osterlind , a Swedish painter whom Modi had met in Paris years earlier when they visited the Cézanne retrospective together and almost cried with excitement . |
| 3 | Bloodier , longer and also fought over Champagne soil was the struggle between Hugh Capet and Charles of Lorraine for the French throne . |
| 4 | When I brought him the food he pushed it away and suddenly burst into tears all over again . |
| 5 | Clutching a hot water bottle prepared by Mrs Knelle , I finally and thankfully snuggled into bed . |
| 6 | Two events , which more or less coincided with Geikie 's retiral , had a profound effect on the future of the Survey . |
| 7 | You more or less stood to attention . . |
| 8 | Sodium hypochlorite is also rapidly and completely inactivated by dirt and all other organic materials including detergents . |
| 9 | As there was a rough , though by no means exact , correlation of social power with wealth , this meant that the élites of European society tended to be more and more permeated by members of the financial , industrial and professional bourgeoisie which had emerged increasingly as the dominant class in progressive societies since the seventeenth century . |
| 10 | Well he was as far as I can remember he was thirty eight he , he went he worked at the Gas Works , ca n't remember much about that really but er I think he 'd actually been working nights and came home and actually died in bed I believe . |
| 11 | Accordingly the time was changed : I went in at 9 p.m. and often stayed until midnight or past . |
| 12 | Easter Sunday morning the students would go round the bedrooms as early as 2am dressed in sheets , pretending to be angels , singing " Christ the Lord is risen today " . |
| 13 | The curia was taking on a new role , as the centre of a vast network of appeals ; increasing numbers from near and far came to Rome in search of judgement . |
| 14 | Balliol was crowned king at Scone six weeks later and then marched to Galloway to rally the support which the men of that region had traditionally shown to the Balliol family . |
| 15 | Lawyers should be fairly and reasonably remunerated for work done under the legal aid scheme . |
| 16 | High red serpents swayed up to hang for a lingering minute and fade ; busy green heads with white tails thrashed hither and thither and then dived to death . |
| 17 | The clerk ignored him but now and then shouted in Arabic and a customer came forward to collect a form or a tattered bundle of money . |
| 18 | in these years [ 1964–1970 ] … the pressures generated within the post-war system substantially and visibly escaped from control . |
| 19 | During deeper burial , the intergranular and intragranular pores have been partially or completely occluded by anhydrite cement at some localities ( Fig. 16b ) . |
| 20 | The student bravely and patiently spoke with John throughout the contact . |
| 21 | Further , if Lawrence 's celebration of heterosexuality is dependent upon a repression of , a disavowal of , and a displacement on to , homosexuality , such passages are animated by a homoerotic desire consciously and artistically sublimated into heterosexuality . |
| 22 | On Jan. 13 Italian President Francesco Cossiga admitted his involvement in an anti-communist paramilitary force formed in 1948 and claimed that " everyone then and now knew about Gladio 's activities " . |
| 23 | These regimes , however , are recent creations , for the most part crudely and poorly grafted onto society ; in some of these countries , the ‘ permanence ’ of their socialist transformations is questionable . |
| 24 | ‘ My grandmother would have been a hundred and forty this Christmas , ’ Doris began again and then lapsed into silence . |
| 25 | Swinderby was freed , but prohibited from further preaching without licence ; he returned to Leicester briefly but soon left for Coventry . |
| 26 | Bob Hope , the master of ceremonies for the umpteenth time , unfunnily and inaccurately joked about Dustin 's youthfulness , saying , ‘ They nominated a kid like Dustin Hoffman — he made a picture he ca n't get in to see . |
| 27 | Mr Larwood , 88 , was shunned by the cricketing establishment for many years afterwards and never played for England again . |