Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the crowd started to stone it . |
| 2 | There was I , sweetly asleep , and suddenly the roof collapsed on top of me . ’ |
| 3 | And suddenly the room shook with laughter . |
| 4 | And he got the sack so the firm came on strike . |
| 5 | So the struggle began for unity . |
| 6 | The greatest benefit was to the local community as a whole : as Listers grew so the area climbed to prosperity from the depression that followed the collapse of the wool-cloth trade . |
| 7 | And so the growth continued with visitor figures rising beyond the dreams of the organisers . |
| 8 | Robin Cook , shadow trade and industry secretary , said : ‘ Michael Heseltine must now tell us how much the DTI knew about weapon deals with Saddam and why they connived at arms exports instead of controlling them . ’ |
| 9 | Thus the total noted at present perhaps underestimates numbers . |
| 10 | Normally the nomes stayed at floor level , but Dorcas had taken to sending his young assistants on to the big desk in the manager 's office occasionally , where there were useful scraps of paper . |
| 11 | Cadets from military schools and a force of 1000 cossacks from outside the capital tried without success to overthrow the new government . |
| 12 | Gradually the greyness turned to pink . |
| 13 | Yiali in the Dodecanese supplied Crete with the white-speckled obsidian wanted for the fabric of the bowls ; possibly the obsidian came by way of Triandha as a trading station . |
| 14 | But the more the revival got under way , the more it responded to Rome 's own ethos , the less accommodating it was in regard to the values of either Protestantism or modern secular , liberal society . |
| 15 | On arriving home the patient complained of discomfort in the left calf and pain in the left testicle . |
| 16 | At once the scene fell into shape in Alice 's mind . |
| 17 | Anglo-Gaullist disagreements intensified once the expedition got under way . |
| 18 | A few days later the man came to hospital because his stomach hurt . |
| 19 | The two Arabs then climbed into the front and moments later the van spluttered into life and turned out of the alley . |
| 20 | Another would sometimes go back to work er if their son or dau well mainly the sons went to university and they needed the extra money for that . |
| 21 | In any case , they breasted the height of Ratagan , and now the difficulty began in earnest . |
| 22 | Now the path ran through heather high above the burn , past circular sheepfolds long disused and over the stony beds of side streams where the grass hung smooth and inviting , concealing ankle-breaking drops . |
| 23 | Now the stranger stood in front of our little group . |
| 24 | A thousand eyes had watched the brief altercation , and now the whispers began in earnest . |
| 25 | Clean changes were possible given a little patience , but moving from first to second was reminiscent of shovelling coal — sometime the lever slid into place , sometimes it jarred my whole body . |
| 26 | Ministerially the king lived from hand to mouth , on occasions with a double ministry of foreign affairs . |
| 27 | Then Olybrius ' fury flared and even the ground shook in fear . |
| 28 | Fortunately the cut happened at night and power was restored before any noticeable pollution took place . |
| 29 | Okay so once again over four years erm you unfortunately the company went into liquidation . |
| 30 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |