Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This might throw light on his uncomplimentary nickname too , and on how , as the charter S 933 of 1014 reveals , " the attacks and plunderings of the evil Danes " gave him possession of a Dorset estate of the church of Sherborne , which he eventually sold for a great price in gold and silver to a friend of the monks , who returned it to them . |
| 4 | However , a series of related allegations eventually led to a High Court libel action involving Docherty and two of Manchester United 's most prominent players , Denis Law and Willie Morgan , who perhaps predictably were both Scots . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The issue rarely surfaced in the showery south-east until a string of droughts in the 1980s . |
| 7 | It was Trainer himself who deftly headed in a right wing free kick at the start of the second period , but Ballycastle came back to equalise through Woods with two minutes to go before Gorman 's winner settled an exciting tie . |
| 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 | More recently , in a series entitled , ‘ Scenes from the intimate life of CMA ’ she uses six small-scale canvasses , each focussing on a film still , randomly appropriated from a narrative sequence . |
| 10 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 11 | I he opportunity for doing so arose in the Middle East . |
| 12 | They sensibly asked for a new kettle but were told that they could not have one because cuts meant that no new equipment or furniture of any kind was available . |
| 13 | Martin O'Neill only got to the eighth frame in his match against Mark Rowing . |
| 14 | He not only got through the first round but he reached the final again ! |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | The decline of Woodstock relative to Oxford merely led to the increasing importance of the present main road . |
| 17 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 18 | When I first thought of that I suddenly got in an absolute panic — nothing to do with Darwin , but , you know never mind — and I thought what about those erm , preying mantises and things , which who have adopted their front legs for sort of seizing prey like that they 've even got four legs to walk on — what do the poor things do ? |
| 19 | died as , whatever and they went to his eldest brother he said he had to burn all because he only lived in a small flat , he and his wife and two children and they 'd got no room for them to so he had to burn them . |
| 20 | It worked out and then they only lived in the other half while they were doing it , was n't it ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He was also charged with forcing the king to bestow the earldom of March upon him in the Salisbury parliament of 1328 and then leading an armed band against the Earl of Lancaster , with procuring the death of the Earl of Rent , fomenting discord between Edward II and Isabella , and other offences which together amounted to a comprehensive indictment of his rule since 1326 , The earls and barons , ‘ the peers of the realm ’ , were asked to give their judgement on these charges and they declared that they were notorious and manifest to all . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It suddenly ground to a skidding halt and they were all thrown forward . |
| 25 | Tones can be easily built up and blended , rubbed hard with a plastic rubber or gently stroked onto a grained paper to produce sfumato effects . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 28 | He very much objected to the inevitable contraction of Nicandra to Nico , which seemed to him common . |
| 29 | The redundancies apparently came as a complete surprise to USL staff who were assured before Christmas that no jobs would be lost through the Novell deal . |
| 30 | Without warning the grass suddenly exploded in a great shower and a livid white head emerged . |