Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I only saw highlights on match of the day , but from what I saw , the play was amazing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some still threw buckets of snow into the small flames that lived . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ He always kept bottles of champagne in his fridge at work and he moved in very high-society circles . |
| 9 | HOUSING experts yesterday saw hopes of recovery in the depressed market after unseasonally strong activity . |
| 10 | THE Royal Dockyards at Devonport and Rosyth yesterday won contracts for work on the Trident nuclear submarine force . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He also made translations from Turkish to Latin . |
| 14 | The closure was announced in a statement in Parliament which also revealed changes in store for most of the RAF 's other bases in the region . |
| 15 | We also incurred costs in connection with the re-positioning of our United Kingdom international brands which involved the rationalisation of a limited number of our facilities . |
| 16 | We also obtained funds for investment in the business from the sale of supermarket property , borrowing and other creditors . |
| 17 | He tried to devise new and better ways of operating the machines in the bottle works where he was employed and , realizing that he needed to increase his knowledge of science and mathematics if he was to exploit his ideas , he went in the evenings to the nearby Mechanics ' Institute and also took lessons in trigonometry from a local clergyman . |
| 18 | It also precipitated changes of plan regarding the book 's scope . |
| 19 | He also launched negotiations with Aeroflot about possible joint ventures . |
| 20 | The letter also specified details of non-observance of the Scottish Office guidelines . |
| 21 | One also had links with government to the extent that the DTI provided launch aid for civil helicopter developments and the Ministry of Defence partfinanced development aid for helicopters , or improvements to them , for defence purposes . |
| 22 | As a result many Marxists have had to look outside Marxism to explain primitive societies , so they often imported theories of history from the anthropologists whom they used as sources . |
| 23 | We shall see later in Part II that this decline of manufacturing employment was closely identified with the heavy growth of unemployment in the 1980s , and with its concentration in most industrial towns and cities outside the South East , places which typically had rates of unemployment of 14 to 20 per cent . |
| 24 | During the Giscard Presidency : the news and current affairs coverage satisfied no-one : neither the President , who thought — and said — that the journalists of the state television had been better disposed toward his predecessors ; nor the socialist and communist opposition which periodically ran campaigns in favour of the freedom of news broadcasting . ’ |
| 25 | As a student of child abuse , I regularly encountered forms of cruelty to children I hardly thought were possible . |
| 26 | She has busied herself in the promotion of senior civil servants ( looking for people with energy and commitment ) and regularly badgered departments about progress on particular policies — ‘ like a dog after a bone ’ an adviser claims . |
| 27 | He frequently waved wads of money at passers-by , but like most footballers of his era , Gallacher was never a rich man . |
| 28 | The black marketeers also smuggled in cultural items , originating in the much-desired late twentieth century , for the rich collectors who invariably held positions of power on the planet . |
| 29 | He readily granted licences for enfeoffment to uses , and although Chancery officials made some effort to track down unlicensed or fraudulent uses , such cases ‘ form a very small minority of all those tenants in chief who had conveyed land to uses ’ . |
| 30 | Richard 's enchantment with girls sometimes raised echoes of anxiety in his parents . |