Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The dissolution of CENTO left ASEAN as the primary multilateral body of states in Asia predominantly oriented towards the Western powers in its security outlook and ties .
2 The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before .
3 There was a red light up , and he was stopped by a policeman as he reached the opposite pavement and duly asked for the appropriate number of marks .
4 An important phase in this was achieved in the diplomatic efforts initiated by the Red Cross Resolution of 1965 which eventually led to the 1977 Geneva Protocols , discussed in the previous section .
5 And er we , we did n't do an awful lot on commercial later on , we gave up that er thing we , we mostly concentrated on the private cars .
6 In February 1974 the original lessee assigned the lease to the second defendant , a company , which duly entered into the required covenant directly with the landlord .
7 The issue rarely surfaced in the showery south-east until a string of droughts in the 1980s .
8 The danger and the extra effort needed to shoe a colt for the first time was recognized by a custom called in some districts of East Anglia by the term First Nail which presumably referred to the violent shock the first nail would give to the colt .
9 Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment .
10 I he opportunity for doing so arose in the Middle East .
11 In the late 1960s it only applied to the clearing banks .
12 Martin O'Neill only got to the eighth frame in his match against Mark Rowing .
13 He not only got through the first round but he reached the final again !
14 I only got inside the front door cos it 's Tuesday night her night in the kitchen , so I went back home and he did n't half swear at me , he said you bloody well go again you want your head tested , I could have cried I thought oh well cos I did n't feel like rushing around
15 The decline of Woodstock relative to Oxford merely led to the increasing importance of the present main road .
16 Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ?
17 It worked out and then they only lived in the other half while they were doing it , was n't it ?
18 In the tenth century the Kiev merchants used to half-drag , half-row their small boats , monoxyla , past the Dnieper rapids on the way to the Byzantine markets , constantly menaced by the ferocious Pecheneg people inhabiting the southern steppes .
19 He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design .
20 ‘ But we were all so stupidly purist then , which obviously changed over the next couple of years , with Peter writing material like Man Of The World and Albatross .
21 He very much objected to the inevitable contraction of Nicandra to Nico , which seemed to him common .
22 They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months .
23 Perhaps hindered by the unflattering acoustic of the concert hall , the result was all too often lost in a welter of sound and over-stressed consonants with all the control of a recalcitrant Sunday school outing .
24 The phenomenon of crumbling historic buildings , greatly accelerated in the twentieth century , is also attributed to the blight of acid rain .
25 Because the tall , dark and extremely handsome man — whom she only recognised as the mega-rich industrialist , Ross Wyndham when it was far too late to do anything about it ! — seemed to move across the pavement with the speed of light .
26 The Gedge boy , who apparently spied on the entire population of Dynmouth , had no doubt seen him .
27 That child labour not only existed in the pre-factory economy but was strongly approved of does not of itself make blinkered sentimentalists of those who reacted so strongly to the " dark , satanic mills " .
28 On one occasion a friend of mine , resplendent in new sports jacket and flannels , rather unwisely walked across the diagonal market path .
29 The snobbish distinction between art and craft only began in the eighteenth century amongst collectors who felt it necessary to describe creativity according to their social or monetary values .
30 Thrilled with the sight of the hot coffee , Mother took a paper cup and gingerly walked towards the darkened screening room .
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