Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was his own spiritual change which made possible after the poems of the early twenties a more affectionate view of London , but we should not assume that the owner of Down the Silver Stream of Thames had ever been totally blind to the beauty of the city . |
| 2 | After you got used to the conventions of his speech , he became readily comprehensible : shah-al-arhee was the mali 's rendering of salary . ) |
| 3 | With the increased growth of tension in the East End in 1936 the Security Service became interested in the activities of the IFL . |
| 4 | They became interested in the peculiarities of the Celtic society they tried to control and subdue . |
| 5 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |
| 6 | Through this experience I became interested in the mechanisms of contemporary of Mori 's ‘ composite card ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Poor ’ in person , the monks enjoyed nevertheless a standard of living far above the Sussex norm , a situation made clear by the accounts of the late fourteenth-century cellarer , Brother Thomas Ellam , who bought the bulk provisions the monks needed : |
| 8 | When I say ‘ this war ’ , I am not thinking only of the current one , but of all our modern wars and our entire modern history from when we became free of the Turks in 1819 . |
| 9 | Yes , that 's right , and in fact I , I was interested for erm even before I got interested in the Muddletonians in the way in which people in the early modern period were fascinated by the idea of Christ returning on earth a second time , on the millennium , and erm I wrote about that experience . |
| 10 | Mr Wakenshaw 's parachute became tangled in the wheels of a plane and he was dragged along its fuselage . |
| 11 | More and more people went to hear this phenomenon in a university of the crudest fundap 25 mentalism , which horrified some of the dons as a caricature of Christianity . |
| 12 | He laid some of the foundations of the Newtonian mechanics that was to replace Aristotle 's . |
| 13 | Criticism of the kind which became popular with the pupils of I. A. Richards at Cambridge later in the century was absolutely unknown at Oxford . |
| 14 | Her husband countered this on the grounds of the divorce he had been granted in Reno . |
| 15 | Equally probable is that the pre-schizophrenic child and the schizophrenic adult produced some of the abnormalities of the parents . |
| 16 | The fletchings were dyed in Alexei 's colours , and gleamed silver-grey in the shafts of light which penetrated the shop . |
| 17 | My first book , When Sixpence Was A Fortune , has reached many corners of the world — a lady told me her sister read some of the poems to an audience of exiled Scots in New Zealand and half the folk there ‘ wiz greetin' ’ ! |
| 18 | In fact their game in the quarter-finals of the Sicily 7s , operating as both qualifier and dress rehearsal for next year 's World Cup Sevens at Murrayfield , revealed some of the shortcomings of the competition . |
| 19 | We crossed the huge market square where a great throng had gathered to witness the execution of two brothers found guilty by the Judges of Assizes of plotting against the King . |
| 20 | Whilst the ride itself was uneventful , the reception we received as we visited each of the sites in turn was fantastic . |
| 21 | Elisabeth watched as a bee visited each of the flowers in turn , slowly , carefully , taking its time . |
| 22 | In Margate crime rose by twenty percent last year we found that for the victims of crime here the use of cautioning has undermined confidence in the justice system . |
| 23 | She moved some of the parcels off his Dad 's chair . |
| 24 | Newton and Robinson ( 1982 ) found half of the sixteen-year-olds in four inner London ESN(M) schools to be maladjusted , as rated by the Bristol Social Adjustment Scales , while in South Wales , Chazan ( 1964 ) reported a similar proportion : 50 per cent of the boys , 32 per cent of the girls . |
| 25 | Now I I mentioned some of the things on income tax where i know it does n't er apply to the people in the group but may well do to relatives of them . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , he ranked high among the pioneers of twentieth-century chemical technology . |
| 27 | They provided many of the resources for the celebrations and allowed the students to proceed as they wished with few officials presiding over events . |
| 28 | Indeed , early exchange activities could not have done , since towns did not exist before late prehistoric times , and in later times periodic markets and fairs provided many of the opportunities for trade . |
| 29 | Under G.V. Chicherin , who became head of the People 's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs ( Narkomindel ) in March 1918 , Soviet diplomacy rapidly readopted many of the methods of the old regime . |
| 30 | Inside , the Richards lined many of the rooms with wainscots and the big bolection moulded panels of the time , mostly in the fashionable white wood , save for an oak room on the first floor . |