Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] a " 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 | ‘ I definitely began to feel more mature as a photographer after my first visit to Africa ’ , he says . |
| 3 | Yet Labour had not fought the election solely on a negative programme of hostility to Protection but on its socialist programme ; and the electors had given even less of a mandate to socialism than to Protection . |
| 4 | He had exhibited work every year since 1847 , and had given about three of a series of lectures on mediaeval architecture to students at the Academy , which he had started the previous year . |
| 5 | The cat had stopped cleaning itself and had curled up asleep in a little pool of sunshine . |
| 6 | It had looked more suitable for a West End hairdressing salon . |
| 7 | Symbolism had been fun in his early days with her , but it was something that had turned very sour in a live-in situation . |
| 8 | Mozart had written only 50 of a proposed 415 bars of music , and had sketched in the outline of the melody for the next 80 bars . |
| 9 | Betjeman captured the concern in 1938 in his poem Slough : What had appealed so much to a previous generation was no longer a cause for pride . |
| 10 | Mr Nightingale had been a wartime soldier in a fairly respectable regiment ( George 's opinion as an excavalryman ) and while he had filled out to a pink-and-white chubbiness he still wore a small military moustache that had stayed loyally ginger as a reminder of the Desert campaign . |
| 11 | The hour had become unexpectedly available for a private indulgence . |
| 12 | Event had become too much of a drain on both his time and the resources of the rest of the Virgin Group . |
| 13 | In any contractual negotiation with a record company , a good lawyer had become as important to a performer as a good tune , or a good haircut . |
| 14 | On a more light-hearted note , a friend of mine had become sexually involved with a woman he met at a party , although he confided that he had niggling doubts about the relationship . |
| 15 | There was by now considerable information as to the poor state of health of many elementary schoolchildren and the problem had become startlingly visible as a result of the concentration of such children in schools after the introduction of compulsory education . |
| 16 | But as common as his sisters were , the one who had died had become quite wealthy through a progressive small business . |
| 17 | The British , it was stated , had become more realistic as a result of the Suez setback , with Macmillan leading the push for better Anglo-American relations , especially in the Middle East . |
| 18 | The National Deaf Club , as will be remembered , was originally founded for the oral deaf , but by the 1930s had become so well-established as a sports and social club for independent-minded deaf people who were mostly well-bred and upper-class , and so dominant in the Federation of London Deaf Clubs ' sports tournaments , that oral deaf people were once more isolated from social activities . |
| 19 | I had become so interested in a nice neat pattern that I had n't checked if I had found all the shapes . |
| 20 | It was as if , the weeks of turmoil and uncertainty that followed his father 's death having turned into months , the tumultuous turn of events had proved too much for a youth of his years . |
| 21 | The Liberal Democrats complained that too many schools have outside lavatories ; that the Tories were profligate in setting up a chair of maritime history at a local university ; and that they had spent too much on a ceremonial mace . |
| 22 | She had , only the other day , seen a policeman and -woman exerting more force than had seemed strictly necessary on a man in the street : at the time she had assumed that he had offered fierce resistance until she had turned the corner , at which moment he had been subdued . |
| 23 | Moorlands , mountains and hills crowded round on every side ; seas shimmered azure , emerald , green and blue in August sunlight ; the scent of peat smoke filled the air and we drove through a landscape that had remained almost unchanged for a thousand years . |
| 24 | The local grammar school had put too much of a gawky human edge on his son 's image . |
| 25 | Stephani Cook , writing about her experiences in hospital , describes how when told that she had to have yet another in a series of operations , describes how she cried like a child : |
| 26 | She followed him over towards one of the big sofas , careful as she sat to leave as much of a gap between them as possible . |
| 27 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 28 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |