Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the boys from amongst these pioneers went on to study Mathematics at Cambridge , with great success , to Daniels ' pride : J. G. Adshead of Caius College , who eventually became Professor of Mathematics at Dalhousie University , Nova Scotia , and W. L. Edge of Trinity College , who held a similar post in the University of Edinburgh . |
| 2 | As the tsars slowly transformed Ukraine from ally into colony , later generations of Ukrainians came to agree with their national poet 's assessment of him as ‘ the unwise son ’ . |
| 3 | The Bantu Mirror , established in 1936 , circulated in both Rhodesias , using African languages , but employed no African reporters : it merely used translations of news from Argus papers . |
| 4 | The clash they made on the stones below jarred Harry from head to heels , and for a moment shook the intensity of his concentration . |
| 5 | It is reported that , while out riding in Wychwood Forest , he suddenly came face to face with the shade of Amy Robsart . |
| 6 | In the next year , one in which bad harvests had pushed up the price of wheat to 119s. 6d. a quarter , the overseers not only paid 1s. per week to Mary , but also found a further 2s. per week for Thomas himself from 26 May until 30 June on account of him having ‘ No work ’ . |
| 7 | At seven a.m. the following morning , contemplating newspaper headlines which screamed ‘ The Filth and the Fury ’ , and with the clamour of shareholders ringing in his ears , Leslie Hill personally telephoned Branson at home with a simple request , ‘ Can we talk ? ’ |
| 8 | I only saw highlights on match of the day , but from what I saw , the play was amazing . |
| 9 | In 1924 Mussolini survived a personal crisis when he was accused of colluding in the murder of Giacomo Matteotti , an opposition leader , and finally became head of state in 1925 when the Fascists banned all other parties . |
| 10 | After a second operation in January 1945 he nevertheless visited Washington in connection with the Far Eastern war and , although dying , he wrote a scientific paper for the sixtieth-birthday tribute to Niels Bohr . |
| 11 | Steam power finally gave way to electricity by the mid-1950s and in 1977 , the mill was completely gutted and re-equipped with modern machinery , much of it made locally by Simon-Barron of Gloucester . |
| 12 | Some names have already been mentioned but it is possible to think of so many : of Mr Tommy and Mr Bobbie Reynolds and their work in choir and Sunday School , of the dignified and gracious figures of Mr and Mrs T H Watson ( parents of the Reverend George Watson ) , of Mr W A Mullen DL and his son Mr Cecil Mullen , generous and energetic benefactors of the church in so many ways , of Mr R J Magowan OBE JP for over 40 years secretary of the Trustees , of the brothers Mr Herbie and Mr David McClatchey , their service as Trustees and members of the choir , of Mr David Lyttle , Mr Norman Lyttle and Mr Sammy Lyttle , active in all aspects of the church 's life but especially concerned with choir and Sunday Schools of Mr Willie Holmes and his daughters Winnie and Amy , of Mr David Lamb and his family , of Mr Twinem Jackson , who , with Mr Magowan , still had time to give years of public service to the community at large in Portadown , of Mr C J McKinley , concerned with the Building Fund over the years and Superintendent of the morning Sunday School from 1943 to the 1960s , of Mrs Sleator with her wholehearted love for the church and for people , of Mr Bertie Montgomery , always cheerful and serene , who , among so many other things , began the practice of taping the services for the benefit of the elderly and housebound , of M Alfred Shortt and his long and generous association with the Sunday School , or Mr Dan Humphries , helping over the years with the church 's finances , of members of the Calvert and Hardy families and of those who , belonging to other Societies , nevertheless gave years of service to Edenderry — Mr Sam Robinson , Mr Joseph Cranston , Mr John Curry , Mr James Mullen , Mr W J Green , Mr Isaac Holland , Mr Eric Walker , and Mr William Bustard . |
| 13 | Heseltine was able to announce that he already had assurances of support from a hundred MPs when he formally declared his intention to contest the leadership . |
| 14 | ‘ Donkeys , Janet , ’ Gwendolen trilled again , but the will to fight had left her , and she easily ceded place of honour to Samuel . |
| 15 | Every month , we got this cost of living , course it did n't er it did n't er fluctuate like it did in more recent years , but it was a safeguard and we always got increases on top of that like piece work increase and and er it it was a it was a good union , it you know . |
| 16 | Female labour was never used underground in Cornwall and it does not seem to have been much used at the surface either , until the growth of copper mining which rapidly overhauled tin in importance after about 1740 . |
| 17 | We should , of course , widen the context even further for , if in the movies preaching usually came hand in hand with melodrama , this should remind us that films were still firmly in the hands of showmen and they were free to use social comment and social settings as they thought best . |
| 18 | Some still threw buckets of snow into the small flames that lived . |
| 19 | PROMINENT left-wingers yesterday rebuffed appeals for unity behind Labour 's policy review and accused the party leadership of a calculated effort to stifle grassroot dissent . |
| 20 | ‘ He always kept bottles of champagne in his fridge at work and he moved in very high-society circles . |
| 21 | HOUSING experts yesterday saw hopes of recovery in the depressed market after unseasonally strong activity . |
| 22 | ‘ It was an extremely popular programme and we always saw eye to eye about it . |
| 23 | Cases involving taxi drivers usually took place at night in remote areas ; it was an easy form of attack . |
| 24 | THE Royal Dockyards at Devonport and Rosyth yesterday won contracts for work on the Trident nuclear submarine force . |
| 25 | Maturities vary but they tend to be longer than those for conventional stocks ; only three of the 13 stocks outstanding at end-September , 1991 had maturity dates before the end of the century and several still had terms to maturity in excess of 20 years . |
| 26 | I mean er and as I say you had everything erm when er I wanted coal I mean you had coal erm because after my husband ceased at the pit , er that ceased because , cos miners always had coal as part of their er it was part of their wages you see . |
| 27 | In this connection , it is interesting that many of the restrictions on economic life in the Pentateuch were to ensure that each family always had access to part of the society 's capital — namely a plot of land and some animals . |
| 28 | Chea Sim , Hun Sen and Heng Samrin were the only members of the Kampuchean People 's Revolutionary Council placed in power by the Vietnamese in 1979 who still held positions of power in Phnom Penh . |
| 29 | He also made translations from Turkish to Latin . |
| 30 | He also sought advice on drill from a Capt. Bradshaw , " to improve the bearing and physical condition of the boys " , and soon fifty pupils had joined the School Cricket Club , practising regularly on Stockport Cricket Club 's ground . |