Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His simpler ‘ Dolby B ’ system was adopted for tape cassettes in 1971 , and was the main reason why this format became so popular as a means of disseminating commercially prerecorded material . |
| 2 | It was because of this that it became so important for a buyer to establish that the seller 's representation amounted to a contractual term so that full damages would then be available . |
| 3 | They stopped at Antwerp where one evening they got so drunk in a bar that when Minton decided to return to the hotel , Norman followed him as he doubted whether he would find his way . |
| 4 | ‘ Last Tuesday in Cambridge High Street a man got so angry with a dog he bit it . ’ |
| 5 | That the propriety of expenditure is premised on the possibility of an eventual return to the shareholders is , however , made starkly apparent in a number of cases concerning companies that are ceasing to trade . |
| 6 | It belongs to a Hindu family that entered comparatively late into a treaty relationship with the Portuguese , and had subsequently been ennobled by them . |
| 7 | The nearest Hounslow came to scoring was not until the eightieth minute when Keith Hoad headed narrowly wide from a Mark Francis cross . |
| 8 | It was her habit after the lecture on the theory of economics , which she found particularly intractable as a subject , to take her notes ( she was a sparse but efficient notetaker ) to a quiet table by the window , drink some coffee and study what she had written down . |
| 9 | It also seemed terribly contemporary in a society where pop singers were becoming the spokespeople of the age . |
| 10 | The good old television recording once again came in useful as a reminder of the true reality when it clearly showed a presentable handover of the garment . |
| 11 | The horse came in sixth in a field of 11 . |
| 12 | It seemed especially desperate at a charter fair in my home town as we watched a local housewife who had set up her fortune-telling tent . |
| 13 | Tosh , also a junior , came home second in a time of 1.29.32 with Belfast 's Gary Wilson a close third in 1.30.05 . |
| 14 | The idea of recycled clothes seemed more exciting in a way than modern clothes . |
| 15 | He said it 's happened before and he advised her to go to the police and er so he , he said er when and the police st told her , when you come back we 'll have all this typed out i and she came back all with a flask all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time , because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 16 | Hoomey came back white as a sheet , speechless . |
| 17 | A Libyan offer made to the USA during December 1989 through Italian officials , allowing an international inspection of the Rabta plant , was on Dec. 29 rejected as inadequate by a US State Department official ; she said that a " one-time inspection would not be conclusive " . |
| 18 | It is perhaps understandable why these men , who earn their livelihood in the very embrace of the Goddess of the South Seas , should take her so seriously , but it came as more of a surprise that the Sultan of Surakarta should do the same . |
| 19 | It came out all in a rush , |
| 20 | This cohesion came dramatically unstuck as a result of two developments , one theoretical and the other empirical . |
| 21 | He claimed to have been at the Munich Olympics in 1972 while serving with the US Army , and seemed particularly proud of a photograph of himself in officer 's uniform ( without apparently realising that the insignia were incorrect ) . |
| 22 | Some seemed quite certain of a mystery train — one they heard that came and vanished but was never recognised . |
| 23 | Combining relative novelty with practicality , it seemed evidently constructive as a way of repaying society for a wrong done , while at the same time bringing the offender within reach of the voluntary organizations which are a peculiarly English way of providing services of value to a wider community . |
| 24 | ‘ It just seemed too much of a gamble , ’ he explained , and in fact the 22-year-old left-hander turned them down once before temptation overcame him . |
| 25 | He seemed very streetwise for a kid who had just left school . |
| 26 | Lancaster and Lincoln served on this basis in Gascony in 1294 and 1298 ; and in Edward II 's reign contract armies became more common as a means of defending the northern border in the absence of the king . |
| 27 | God knows how he did , they were clumped together and the undergrowth beneath made more treacherous by a carpet of snow . |
| 28 | We took up the coathanger as our symbol — one of the grim tools women used to induce their own abortions before the operation was legalized — and we vowed that no more women should die , become maimed or made permanently sterile as a result of trying to get an abortion . |
| 29 | During their trial separation , Robyn became deeply involved in a Women 's Group at Cambridge who met regularly but informally to discuss women 's writing and feminist literary theory . |
| 30 | Starting in 1980 Mr. Pearson became deeply involved in a farming venture but despite the creation of a highly successful Holstein show herd this investment unfortunately was largely responsible for all G.M. Pearson & Son Ltd , interests being put into Receivership in July 1986 . |