Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The civil disorders and dynastic feuds between Lancaster and York presumably led to some destruction of wealth , although it is virtually impossible to judge how much . |
| 2 | I rarely got beyond this point in my sales patter before expressions of incredulity replaced polite interest . |
| 3 | It would be tedious to list the types and colours of stone , ceramic etc. used at each site in Britain ; if any picture at all emerges it is that mosaicists made good with what was easily obtained , and that the types of stone used for various shades of colour are predictable and limited in number . |
| 4 | The indisposition of the 8F led to some speculation by passengers on the Cambrian Limited , last Sunday , that the Standard 4 No 75069 would fulfil the Red Rose roster in place of No 8233 . |
| 5 | She only asked for one word to be removed . ’ |
| 6 | So in 1877 the men at the Middleton Iron Company were given their notice , though they stubbornly clung to short-time employment until 1883 when the plant was shut down completely until 1897 . |
| 7 | An increased flow of water not only led to greater purity of the commodity , but also permitted a rebuilding of the entire sewage system . |
| 8 | Also involved with the Hoptons was Philip Bothe of Coddenham ( Suff. ) a second generation emigrant from the north west who suddenly rose to local prominence after 1483 — which seems to imply an earlier connection with Richard . |
| 9 | Also involved with the Hoptons was Philip Bothe of Coddenham ( Suff. ) a second generation emigrant from the north west who suddenly rose to local prominence after 1483 — which seems to imply an earlier connection with Richard . |
| 10 | For example , we apparently only came to some understanding of how the heart worked when we had within our conceptual framework the notion of a pump . |
| 11 | A good cook , evidently , though somewhat vulgarized by recent service with an American family who liked bits of pineapple all over things . |
| 12 | He constantly fiddled with that badge of office , a ready-made , multicoloured , bow tie , as he talked to Jane . |
| 13 | One interpretation of the intermittent energy which Joseph Sturge put into the free produce movement in the 1840s is that it constituted an attempt by a Friend who had launched out into public and even political life to maintain links with more traditionally quietist brethren who none the less looked for greater perfection in the world . |
| 14 | How superior she suddenly felt to that woman in the bed , the woman whom she had so long admired , even idolised , but who knew little of human nature after all . |
| 15 | I was n't there very long cos I only went in one class in Road School . |
| 16 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 17 | Nu and Aung San only grew to early manhood in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 18 | The two witches suddenly looked at each other in horror . |
| 19 | Only listened to classical music on the radio or her beloved Chopin on the gramophone . |
| 20 | He apparently continued in this office until 1655 , when , with essentially unchanged duties , he was appointed one of the two chamberlains of the Exchequer and keeper of its records . |
| 21 | It apparently remained in continuous use throughout medieval times ; it figures as the main road from Oxford to Banbury in Ogilby 's road-book ( 1675 ) ; it was turnpiked in the eighteenth century and it still follows its original course after some three thousand years . |
| 22 | But it only remained of crucial importance to that small minority of bigoted constables who classify all Catholics as equally evil and nefarious . |
| 23 | BRENDA LEE was only 15 when Sweet Nothings charted number four in 1960 , but the little girl from Lithonia , Georgia , sensibly stayed at high school for another three years before taking up show business full-time . |
| 24 | Whereas they eventually came to some agreement over the various ‘ courses ’ , they argued vehemently over Elisabeth 's insistence that the recital should both begin and close with Strauss 's Morgen . |
| 25 | While Treitschke demonstrates how economic union in the Zollverein finally led to German unity under Prussian hegemony , it is not clear that there was necessarily any kind of secret agenda from the outset , rather , the natural pre-eminence of Prussia combined with other historical events beyond her control . |
| 26 | Though generally appropriated by humanist criticism as a recognizable origin of itself , nosce teipsum may nevertheless have something crucial in common with the formulations of post-structuralism . |
| 27 | Indeed , their growth generally occurred without direct funding by London financiers and merchants . |
| 28 | Actually just just quickly er I just noticed on that list of your questionnaires that we got back a couple that they did n't actually know what was going on . |
| 29 | The King put strong pressure on the individual members of the commission to agree to the divorce , and the Archbishop of Canterbury and several other members thereupon withdrew in silent protest before the vote . |
| 30 | The concept already existed in French politics of an ‘ eternal ’ nation which transcended the frequent changes of regime . |