Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the 18th century turned , governments and officials had less to offer and newspaper publishers found advertising more lucrative as a form of revenue . |
| 2 | There was a momentary hesitation before he explained that he 'd only just got to the room , he 'd felt too disturbed by the shamanistic experience to sleep and had sat in the hospitality suite reading . |
| 3 | Oh Mrs , she said she 'd be , she would do them but she 'd felt absolutely terrified at the prospect because she had a a few years ago cos Gerry never had trousers with turn ups . |
| 4 | His oil paintings , however , seemed to grow more splodgy over the years . |
| 5 | The Hairflair stand attracted thousands of hair enthusiasts , all eager to see the January issue which we 'd printed especially early for the show . |
| 6 | Janie 's mother , Angela Darling , clearly distraught , took time out to praise the police who 'd worked so hard on the investigation . |
| 7 | Waugh heard BBC Third Programme discussions about himself , a form of torture he came to feel peculiarly representative of the modern age he despised . |
| 8 | But suddenly it seemed to become very angry with the English visitor , who was talking to it . |
| 9 | He turned away from them , and rode onwards to where the Circle began to grow more empty to the north , and soon there was only the long bar of the outer wall between him and the hills . |
| 10 | It was not long after the autumn of 1977 , that things began to look very bleak for the Romanians . |
| 11 | I began to feel slightly uneasy about the lunch I 'd ordered . |
| 12 | She began to feel vaguely familiar with the names of drinks and their prices . |
| 13 | About three-quarters of the way down the train Jack began to feel very frightened for the overpowering sense of impending evil became even stronger . |
| 14 | So , at the very last moment of our very first film , we nearly got the fire we did n't want , and we began to feel more sanguine about the pyromania we had tried to incite the night before . |
| 15 | ‘ I definitely began to feel more mature as a photographer after my first visit to Africa ’ , he says . |
| 16 | As the victorious American troops poured towards Manchuria , the , the North Korean border with , with China , then the Chinese beg began to become increasingly alarmed at the , at the notion of a united Korea right on its doorstep . |
| 17 | At the same time , the Bishop of Rome began to become more important in the west , partly because the Emperor no longer lived in the old capital . |
| 18 | The 1865 Salon did exhibit Manet 's Olympia but quickly moved it to a place that made viewing almost impossible for the public . |
| 19 | Although it contrived to remain fairly independent of the Great Khan far away in China , Persia had not seen the last of Mongol invasions . |
| 20 | One thing that he did make very clear at the end was that if we thought of other things that he should know about , or it would be helpful for him to know about , we should contact him , so he 's left it very open for us to have an ongoing contact which I thought . |
| 21 | The fact is that the Conservative Party did become closely involved in the problems of the poor and the unemployed — although their efforts were often seen as less than caring . |
| 22 | Husameddin 's circumstantial statement that Molla Fenari passed Ramadan 821 in the Zayniyya medrese in Cairo presumably derives from some source and , if true , would to some degree strengthen the case for Husameddin 's interpretation of the signature in so far as it would show that Molla Fenari did leave unusually early for the pilgrimage which he did not in fact make until 822 . |
| 23 | None the less , while standards of religious zeal and knowledge of the rudiments of the faith continued to fall well short of the aspirations of the most committed reformers , by 1603 England was undoubtedly a Protestant nation . |
| 24 | He had pled not guilty to the murder at the couple 's home in October 1991 . |
| 25 | The first round on March 24 had failed to produce a winner because the turnout had fallen well short of the required 50 per cent , but in the second round the required 25 per cent turnout was just exceeded . |
| 26 | Lewis had fallen fast asleep on the back seat of the police car and remained so for the whole of the journey back to Oxford . |
| 27 | The cat had stopped cleaning itself and had curled up asleep in a little pool of sunshine . |
| 28 | The only Italian she might have got an introduction to — and though elderly he might have had a son — had dropped down dead in the Vatican Square . |
| 29 | The Soviet juror , who had looked distinctly peevish since the beginning of the competition , was dressed in an acre of denim , and kept firing two silver pistols into the air and crying , ‘ Bang , bang ! ’ |
| 30 | He had looked very grave at the thought of all those rotting star fruit , those superannuated pies and fizzing yoghurts . |