Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , an awful lot of breasts got painted out in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 3 | Nor had the problems begun only at that time : the Bank for International Settlements had already warned that net bank lending had fallen steeply in the second quarter of the year , from $90,000 million to $65,000 million , while the amount raised in the world securities markets had shrunk from $44,000 million to $25,000 million . |
| 4 | Runcorn had fallen behind in the 19th minute but were unlucky to go in only level at the break through Steve Shaughnessy 's brilliantly taken equaliser - a flashing near post header from a cross by right back Jamie Bates . |
| 5 | Pat Archer , of the county council 's transportation department , said the problem had dropped slightly in the second half of last term . |
| 6 | Trevor Williamson , an 82nd minute replacement for Stephen McBride , floated in a corner which was knocked down and McMullan , who had come on in the 64th , hammered it into the net . |
| 7 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 8 | But after all , he had come far in the last few months . |
| 9 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 10 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 11 | The income from customs dues , which had risen sharply in the first year of the reign , thanks to Mary 's reforms , was remarkably sluggish thereafter . |
| 12 | The Polytechnic had argued convincingly in the first round that to have done so then would have simply involved the NAB in steering its ‘ service ’ work around . |
| 13 | Before that the village 's only successful days had occurred back in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when it was a centre of the Basque whaling trade . |
| 14 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 15 | Domestic demand had increased dramatically in the fourth quarter of 1989 as a result of the influx of East German immigrants . |
| 16 | Corporate partnerships in engineering , electronics and computing , especially involving West Germany which accounted for 120 such partnerships , had increased sharply in the first half of 1990 . |
| 17 | And getting rid of an unwelcome ruler would not actually be novel ; it had happened twice in the fifteenth century , to James I and James III . |
| 18 | Although Eisenhower and Churchill had worked together in the Second World War as military commander and prime minister , Churchill had now to remember that Eisenhower was president of the world 's greatest power . |
| 19 | Gloucester after Saturday 's match at Kingsholm were left feeling just as impotent and just as confounded after Bath had stormed away in the last five minutes of extra time to win this semi-final . |
| 20 | Embarking on a spell of 10 games in 25 days , which will decide their Second Division fate , Sunderland let slip a 2–1 advantage they had obtained early in the first half . |
| 21 | By 1720 Peter I had reorganised the posolskii prikaz , whose importance had declined sharply in the last two decades , as a new college of foreign affairs . |
| 22 | They drifted apart as casually and amicably as they had drifted together in the first place , with no ill-will on either side . |