Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile government forces had consolidated their positions deep inside UNITA territory near Mavinga , a strategic UNITA base , which the government claimed to have captured in February following heavy fighting , and sought to penetrate as far as the rebel headquarters at Jamba . |
| 2 | It was applied by Baulig to Brittany ( 1935 ) and seemed to work quite well as the basic map used was the old French 1:80 000 hachured map which had plenty of spot heights often on flattish summits or spurs . |
| 3 | By ten I 'd crawled as far as the door . |
| 4 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 5 | There is not much evidence that real wages in Europe began to go up significantly until the later part of the 1860s , but even before then the general feeling that times were improving was unmistakable in the developed countries , the contrast with the disturbed and desperate 1830s and 1840s was palpable . |
| 6 | The absence of a major socialist bloc in North America left an unoccupied anti-pluralist niche into which elite theory began to fit as early as the 1930s . |
| 7 | The alarm bells began ringing as early as the seventh minute when Albert Craig struck the post from a narrow angle after capitalising on a moment 's hesitation in the home defence . |
| 8 | Perhaps because in future we will have a unified Budget , with tax and spending announcements made at the same time , Mr Lamont chose to look further ahead than the 1993–94 financial year . |
| 9 | Severus managed to get as far as the Montrose region and perhaps briefly beyond that : tantalizingly , in 1869 labourers on the Duke of Sutherland 's railway extension to Helmsdale and ultimately to Thurso in distant Caithness unearthed a collection of Roman bronze coins in a region never held and supposedly never reached by imperial forces . |
| 10 | Edgar managed to get as far as the door . |
| 11 | Because of my injury I did get as far as the Spanish Steps and the shops in Rome , but that was the extent of my sightseeing . |
| 12 | The form of mills had developed only slowly since the Middle Ages , but by the middle of the eighteenth century the technology of wind and water power was being investigated scientifically and there was competition for mill sites because of enlarging industrial needs . |
| 13 | When she was discharged , she had to go home alone because no one had told her family . |
| 14 | The barge-owners had to go as far as the brewery wharf across Maurice 's foredeck and over a series of gangplanks which connected them with their own boats . |
| 15 | It had vanished as surely as the name of her village had been erased from the map of Israel . |
| 16 | The German Communist Party had not only failed to carry out.the revolution but had vanished as rapidly as the Social Democrats . |
| 17 | And we had to come back together because a guest had twisted her ankle and it needed bandaging . ’ |
| 18 | We had to find out exactly where an object was stored , or on show , and record that information . |
| 19 | The mood immediately sank back into deep depression , especially in the light of the Soviet summer offensive , which had pushed as far as the Vistula , and , in August , the accelerating advance of the western allies through France . |
| 20 | As we watched , the fog , which had crept as far as the house , began to flow round it . |
| 21 | Some of her friends had fairly eccentric ideas of bed-sitter decoration , and had done far better than the Chianti-bottle , British Railway-poster effort , but none of them had ever conceived of anything like this : and the nicest room she had ever seen had been the drawing room of a friend 's mother in Sevenoaks , which had been distinguished by a bare and gentle colour scheme , and some pretty Georgian furniture . |
| 22 | Indeed , they boasted proudly that retail electricity prices had risen more slowly than the retail price index in general : although their own tariffs had risen faster , average consumption had gone up and the extra kWh had been sold at the lower incremental charges of two-part or block tariffs , thus bringing the average domestic price in their first ten years down by a fifth in real terms . |
| 23 | But the range of the provision had expanded more dramatically than the basic numbers suggest . |
| 24 | His son planned a whole new courtyard and other buildings , but before his death had got little further than a north-west tower , later to be incorporated in further developments by Charles II 's architect , Sir William Bruce . |
| 25 | After praying together , Duff had got as far as the door , when the old man whispered his name . |
| 26 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 27 | I tried Gallanach , in case the train had got back there before the bag had been discovered under the seat by some honest person . |
| 28 | The point on which Gandhi pressed hardest , and on which the talks nearly foundered , was that of an inquiry into the conduct of the police , which he had requested publicly just before the talks began . |
| 29 | CLO had significantly more non-smokers and those who had smoked lightly before than the severe reflux oesophagitis or adenocarcinoma groups ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 30 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |