Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure our editors will be pleased to include in future issues comments passed on either by word of mouth or in letters . |
| 2 | She carried a tray with cups of tea and biscuits on it , which she laid down carefully on top of the chest of drawers . |
| 3 | Conservative and Labour partisans who disagreed so strongly about bias on the BBC were all viewing the same source . |
| 4 | The son of parents ‘ in service ’ in Gloucestershire , Miles — as he was to be known universally within the underground and after — had interests which moved rapidly across from art into poetry . |
| 5 | The shower cubicle was in a tiny room with a basin and toilet off the bedroom , and a luxurious steam built up quickly in spite of the efforts of the extractor fan to draw it away . |
| 6 | BUT when the system loosened up slightly under pressure from Gorbachev 's reforms , some groups started to return to the cafes . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , on the subject of the clash between the normativist and functionalist styles of public law — which emerged in the Franks Committee 's investigations over the question of whether any body responsible for supervising administrative tribunals should be detached from or integrated into the Supreme Courts — the Committee came down firmly in favour of integration . |
| 8 | Mr Scowcroft was , until his appointment , the co-chairman of a committee drawn from the defence elites of both parties , which in February found a form of words that satisfied its wide range of members and came down gently in favour of Midgetman first and rail-MX only later . |
| 9 | Where they had been was raw earth , smothered with the rubbish and dust of bombardment , and pitted with curious mounds and recesses which Nicholas recognised only slowly as rank upon rank of recent , random , haphazard graves . |
| 10 | This came along only in fact in the , in the late nineteen fifties early sixties . |
| 11 | Ricoh UK Products Ltd came through here in recognition of elimination of the use of Chloro-Fluoro-Carbons during the production and recycling of Selenium drums for photocopiers . |
| 12 | Quigley , who seemed not quite in control of himself , grabbed the man by the ears . |
| 13 | They had always been a task force in their own right and had a head start in this respect with their trained crews specialising in interceptions at sea and rummage duties , traditional skills which could now be deployed more swiftly and utilised more efficiently by use of new radio equipment and position finding navigational aids such as radar and Decca Navigators . |
| 14 | This sympathy may have explained the level of applause she got at the end of her opening song , so that she came more confidently to centre for her second . |
| 15 | As he came once more in sight of the queer little house on stilts , he saw a woman in a shiny red mackintosh and waterproof hat to match , opening the garden gate . |
| 16 | Like many sons , Prince Charles was in awe of his father , a man of handsome mien who seemed more naturally at ease with the world than he would ever be . |
| 17 | Her granddaddy came up here to farm in 1891 , but her husband 's family has been here longer . |
| 18 | Town came back just before half-time with a strike from Dave Mitchell and at 3-2 it was still anybody 's game at half-time . |
| 19 | A note came back immediately in response to the picture . |
| 20 | Oh dear oh it 's down about here when , did it the other day , and the woman just drove out straight in front of me from another lane |
| 21 | An estimated 5,000 public-sector health workers , taking action against government privatization plans , were joined on strike in late June by 8,500 banana workers , who came out both in solidarity with them as well as to demand a 60 per cent wage increase to offset the effects of the government 's March austerity plan . |
| 22 | At the September Trades Union Congress , Frank Cousins came out strongly in favour of unilateralism , winning support for a resolution that rejected ‘ any defence policy based on the threat of the use of strategic nuclear weapons ’ . |
| 23 | Its exiled leader , Rachid Ghannouchi , came out strongly in favour of Iraq , and some of its more extreme members attacked the offices of the ruling Democratic Constitutional Rally . |
| 24 | At the hearing some national experts came out strongly in favour of a system also extending to drawings , etchings , engravings sculptures , original photographs and , possibly , one-off designs of furniture and craft . |
| 25 | The report instead came out heavily in favour of a toxicant called Compound 1080 ( sodium monofluoroacetate ) to kill coyotes . |
| 26 | The UK version of the enterprise came out well before Christmas under the title Europe : A History of its Peoples ( Viking Penguin , £25 ) . |
| 27 | The 2nd edition of Cobol for Students by A. Parkin came out just in time for a course which started in January . |
| 28 | Teaching came about almost by accident for Robin Child . |
| 29 | ‘ You suffered quite badly from shock after Len 's accident . ’ |
| 30 | He suffered for Helen , and suffered again now in retrospect in the chill bathwater in the dank Greystones bathroom where condensation sent rusty trails from the pipes down every wall . |