Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | When he was joined in the Test team by Desmond Haynes , one of the most dependable and successful of all opening partnerships was created , and as the senior member in his late twenties Greenidge matured at just the right time . |
2 | She was told that , unless insemination occurred at exactly the right time each month , her acid levels would kill off the donor sperm . |
3 | It is possible to infer from these passages and others in The State of the Prisons that Howard believed in both the good man theory , and in control by the courts . |
4 | Well Christopher came in here the other day and he says that cake is |
5 | Cos a I I 've got the contracts right in the Body Shop , we got Karen she used to work in Superdrug , and she came in there the other day and I 'm saying , och , do you know Michelle ? |
6 | The majority of his 49 international goals came from outside the 18-yard box , and they turned many a game . |
7 | The sound came from inside the golden orb of hair . |
8 | She recognised at once the well-built woman who turned from some chore at the kitchen sink as the woman who had opened the door to her last Friday . |
9 | It was along one such barren track that Val came across more the gaunt pillars of volcanic rock , ‘ They were like giant effigies presiding over their parched and desolate kingdom . |
10 | It was the best lesson I 've ever had , and it came at just the right time . ’ |
11 | He never came to a conclusion for Angelina and Oliver came at just the wrong moment , just as the fish required the hand of the maître . |
12 | It was very difficult to concentrate on football , and then my injuries came at completely the wrong time . |
13 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
14 | That meeting consisted of practically the whole business community of Belfast . |
15 | Others were picked up opportunistically because a visitor or student arrived with just the right skills or interests to move ahead on a front I might otherwise have neglected . |
16 | In fact your letter arrived at just the right time , since I am now planning the Spring ‘ 93 Edition of Rural Wales . |
17 | Lucy glanced to where the tall man stood at the window , his back turned towards them , apparently deep in thought , because he made no reply . |
18 | A former chairman of Swindon Town Football Club has admitted in court that he lied to both the Inland Revenue and the Football League . |
19 | Littleborough is interesting as a weaving town which saw the beginning of the rise of cotton mills , but fell behind when the great boom concentrated the industry in the palatial brick mills of Manchester , Oldham , Rochdale , Bolton , et al . |
20 | Oh really , I only went in there the other day , well the other week about a fortnight ago |
21 | When I went in there the other week , you walk in and think is n't she nice . |
22 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |
23 | Travis crossed to where the first-aid box sat and extracted some pain-killers . |
24 | What is more , in the decade after 1975 employment in these two sectors grew at twice the average rate for all industry . |
25 | In the last chapter we looked at how the social institution of marriage has changed at different times in history . |
26 | Births to routine non-manual workers families ( IIIN ) fell by roughly the national average . |
27 | Two men in boiler suits emerged from inside the rear van . |
28 | But it appeared at precisely the right moment to catch the poststructuralist tide associated with Derrida and the later Barthes , and several of the most influential titles brought together , rather uneasily , poststructuralism and Marxism . |
29 | American stations possessed by now the great train-sheds and large cross-platforms or ‘ midways ’ which could compete with their European rivals . |
30 | It was the last great age of travel — by ship and by train — before the joys and mysteries and individualism of travel were overtaken by the bland , pre-packaged age of tourism when daily long-distance flights , with their second-rate movies , plastic food , and attendant jet lag , replaced for ever the slow boat to China and the stopping train to Samarkand . |