Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In local government elections , to which much importance was attached , the Labour Party made little advance after the victories of 1934 , actually losing seats in 1936 . |
| 2 | They went more and more slowly , and made long halts in the peat-cuts . |
| 3 | ‘ It was really in the 1920s and 1930s ’ , recalls Environment 's Manager Christopher Nell , ‘ that London Underground became highly regarded in the fields of design and architecture . ’ |
| 4 | With a very limited manufacturing base and agricultural production of foodstuffs insufficient to feed the country , Zambia became highly exposed to the vagaries of international markets . |
| 5 | But otherwise the City found little cheer in the results . |
| 6 | García went underground and issued calls for national resistance , but this found little echo on the streets , and subsequent opinion polls suggested that Fujimori retained the overwhelming confidence of the public . |
| 7 | Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder . |
| 8 | Terry was standing at the landing window , Rose just retreating down the stairs . |
| 9 | People stared at the car , and we tried hard to look like the owners , not just the delivery team . |
| 10 | She 's in Room B. You 'd better wait in the visitors ’ room . |
| 11 | They escaped the reaction of state authority , unlike the radicals of 1793–4 , because they did not pose a direct constitutional challenge , were composed of representatives primarily of the provincial , nonconformist middle and business classes and met in a political context judged less threatening by the authorities . |
| 12 | You did n't fall in love with someone in the space of a few days , just because you 'd finally succumbed to the lures of sex , or lust , or whatever had overwhelmed her ever since he 'd fished her out of the sea that first night … |
| 13 | I held up the intact bottle of rice wine I 'd finally recovered from the depths of my parka . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd already gone on a beginners ’ sailing weekend , and although it was very rough — not beginners ' weather at all — I really loved it . ’ |
| 15 | And er , I was also asked why I had offered to and I 'd already spoken to the students ' secretary about it . |
| 16 | Maybe he 'd already started up the stairs when he heard the lady coming down and dodged round them to hide . |
| 17 | He 'd always gone to the fields long before Edward was up for school , but today he was still wrapping his lunchtime bread and cheese in a cloth . |
| 18 | There were the papers produced by the political groups , but they seemed fatally restricted to the obsessions of other times , and to backbiting amongst themselves . |
| 19 | Francoise Jacquier , waiting in the Caribbean port of Limon for the start of the race , seemed more worried about the effects it would have on her . |
| 20 | If he played strictly according to the rules , the king had to combine some of the qualities of general , prize fighter , judge and monk . |
| 21 | With his father and his mother , he 'd often walked along the cliffs , by the golf-course . |
| 22 | ‘ I never knew th 'd even heard of the Quakers , ’ Jess said . |
| 23 | I came here to escape from the problems of my life in London and , without really meaning to , I came as far east as I could get . ’ |
| 24 | As a student , with everybody into punk in a big way , I 'd regularly paid over the odds for Chuck Mangione imports . |
| 25 | John House , who had organised the exhibition , came almost leaping down the stairs accompanied by a smallish woman in a pine-green tent-like coat . |
| 26 | Most of the food was of a kind that she 'd never seen in the shops ; there was no wine or beer , but Belov had a hip-flask of vodka . |
| 27 | He hated verbal theories , he did n't read much , he 'd never travelled outside the states , he punched people up , and when he was drunk at parties he pissed into the fireplace . |
| 28 | Emma Johnson , Sir Charles Groves , and the ASV team seemed eminently satisfied with the results , and afterwards the soloist went on to speak of her growing involvement with contemporary music , notably the new concerto written for her by Michael Berkeley . |
| 29 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |
| 30 | As the curtain opened there hobbled from the wings what appeared to be an old Chinese mandarin with flowing blue robes , black silk jacket and red-buttoned Mandarin cap over hair that fell down his back in a long pigtail . |