Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Euro-sceptics got support from an unexpected source on Monday evening . |
| 2 | sort of got kind of an odd relationship between the friends |
| 3 | This incident proved the danger to Special Forces when they sought sanctuary in a neutral country , for Graham Hayes was shot in a Paris prison in the summer of 1943 . |
| 4 | After a few hundred yards , he sought sanctuary in a nearby house . |
| 5 | On Viola 's approach down the hall , Hilda turned up the gas and made preparation for a hasty departure , but this , it seemed , was not the idea . |
| 6 | Although it was small and its facilities were poor , the standard of learning attained was high , as was illustrated by McJannet in his History of Irvine when he noted that as early as 1729 , the pupils ‘ translated part of a Greek Testament into Latin ; some of the Roman authors into English … and also translated many English sentences into elegant Latin with great dexterity . ’ |
| 7 | These independent structures are then transformed to dependent ones : " After she had swept the room " , etc. , and made part of a complex sentence . |
| 8 | Only the later nineteenth-century works are a let-down ; Bonn at obviously lacked pull with the great Impressionists and bought generally insipid work . |
| 9 | Worldwide underwriting losses in Q3 down from $131m to $124.9m — despite losses on Hurricane Andrew' — produced deficit at the nine months down $71.4m from $419.9m ( representing 17.2% of premiums ) to $348.5m ( 13.3% of premiums ) . |
| 10 | Before the site became part of a private country park the building was lived in by a local tenant farmer named Mrs Hollington . |
| 11 | The paragraphs being added to the database became part of a new book on hypertext entitled Hypertext : from Text to Expertext . |
| 12 | Being part of the Garrowby estate , owned by the Earl of Halifax , it is rather unusual in this day and age as having no privately owned houses or farms , other than the old rectory which was sold several years ago when the parish became part of a joint ministry . |
| 13 | The first passenger packet boats operated from Warrington to Manchester and later became part of a through route from Liverpool to Manchester via Runcorn . |
| 14 | As late as the end of the nineteenth century in some Western European states local politics retained their dominance over central concerns , until markets , jobs , and communications like the railways became part of a national whole . |
| 15 | These companies in practice then became part of a national cartel . |
| 16 | Other internal Scottish Region expresses to Aberdeen and Inverness also became part of the Provincial empire , even though their carriages were still branded ‘ InterCity ’ for many years after sectorisation . |
| 17 | The two most populous union territories , Pondicherry and Delhi , became part of the electoral college on May 7 by a unanimous decision of the Indian parliament ; elected members of the Pondicherry and the proposed Delhi legislative assemblies would thereby be able to participate in presidential elections . |
| 18 | On Oct. 3 the German Democratic Republic ( GDR or East Germany ) ceased to exist when the five Länder ( states ) which had been re-established on its territory in July 1990 [ see p. 37661 ] became part of the Federal Republic of Germany ( FRG , hitherto referred to as West Germany ) . |
| 19 | Fresh salmon and freshwater fish were not rationed but were price fixed and like game and poultry , usually became part of the black economy . |
| 20 | Again , despite widespread opposition from many sections of the community , the clause became part of the final legislation . |
| 21 | It was not until the French Revolution that democracy ceased to be a mere literary word , and became part of the political vocabulary . |
| 22 | This philosophy , which became known as the ‘ Carter doctrine ’ , persisted into the presidency of his successor and became part of the conditioning material at play in later Washington reflexes . |
| 23 | But 240–200 B.C. were exactly the years in which Greek epics , tragedy , comedy and historiography became part of the Roman way of life . |
| 24 | Greek philosophers and rhetoricians became part of the Roman establishment . |
| 25 | By the time that Israel became part of the Roman empire , the idea was already widespread among the various religious sects that the ‘ End of the World ’ was at hand , although it was only for the Essenes of Qumran that this belief assumed a definite form ; that , whereas the First Judgement at the time of Noah had been destruction by water , the Last Judgement would be destruction by fire . |
| 26 | After the first world war the line became part of the Southern Railway and on summer Saturdays special trains hauled by massive locomotives brought hundreds of holiday-makers from London and the North . |
| 27 | When , in 1975 , PNG won its independence from Australia ( which had been running the place since 1949 ) , Bougainville formally became part of the new country . |
| 28 | But when county boundaries were reorganised in nineteen seventy four it became part of the new county of avon . |
| 29 | On 1 January 1923 , the LNWR became part of the new LMSR Company . |
| 30 | Her resentment and disappointment became part of the awkward thrust she made to fasten Robert 's gardenia to her shoulder strap . |