Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter he became better known as a forensic scientist achieving such professional distinctions as presidency of the Medico-Legal Society and of the Forensic Science Society ( of which Grant was a founder member and secretary ) . |
| 2 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |
| 3 | well it got just eased of a little bit and I thought oh well I 'd make it , so I hopped up to get me erm pension erm and I just got down here when it started again and I came around the front from there and I came around the front I was soaking |
| 4 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |
| 5 | While Lee 's claims on Dickerson are evidently still large , perhaps he 'd better look for a new cinematographer now that his old pal has a director 's credit . |
| 6 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 7 | The methodological challenges sketched above are considerable , and seemed best tackled in a stage-by-stage manner . |
| 8 | Herr and Frau Nordern came home contented after a pleasant evening . |
| 9 | Preston sometimes thought that Mother Bernie and William between them had ruined whatever chance he 'd ever had of a normal sex life . |
| 10 | The long skeletal head and ghostly hands seemed now to belong to a bad dream . |
| 11 | Salisbury , an eager nightwatchman , held out against some torrid deliveries midst some frantic appealing , and all seemed well set for a gripping fourth and fifth day . |
| 12 | He warned his players to expect a hostile reception in England and said : ‘ We came mentally prepared for a hard time and determined to give our answer out there on the field . |
| 13 | Our business location strategy became more focused through a major review , which identified key opportunities for marketing , product improvement and sectoral priorities . |
| 14 | The day drew on , and Tagan scouted ahead to look for a possible camping site . |
| 15 | ‘ The man who telephoned certainly spoke with a foreign accent , ’ Charlotte pointed out . |
| 16 | Ironically enough , on recovery her parents were gentler with her and began gradually to compromise to a certain extent , and now she is at a college of further education . |
| 17 | The general public might have been disappointed but they needed only refer to a contemporary poem then available : |
| 18 | West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl broke off his visit to Poland on Friday and flew home to deal with a dramatic political situation after East Germany opened its borders to the West . |
| 19 | The Cabinet briefly discussed and rejected a dissolution and election on the issue and decided instead to try for a decisive election victory within three years . |
| 20 | Quite a few of the ‘ cricket is boring ’ brigade of know-alls came to may house for Sunday tea , and went away entranced by a brilliant finish involving the last-minute heroics of a David Bairstow or an Eddie Barlow . |
| 21 | I , too , felt deeply attracted to a female colleague . |
| 22 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
| 23 | Whatever the uncertainties of the precise dates , events and social connections in Rolle 's life it is clear from external and internal evidence that he felt increasingly compelled towards a solitary life because it facilitated contemplative inner life which was for him the reality to be cultivated above all other . |
| 24 | She felt almost overwhelmed by a deep physical longing to leave this busy city — and the increasing tension of her life in Lady Wyndham 's house . |
| 25 | ‘ Similarly , a region which felt hard done by a national government does not really have a remedy within the commission or the Court of Justice . ’ |
| 26 | I look awful , thought Daisy , particularly as Perdita , who 'd be expected to ride , looked absolutely ravishing in a dark blue shirt and white breeches . |
| 27 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |
| 28 | [ For bloodshed resulting from ethnic power struggles in 1963 and 1973 see pp. 20085-86 ; 25814 ; for massacres in Burundi in 1988 , where the Tutsi-dominated government had since embarked on a power-sharing experiment with the Hutu , see pp. 36328-29 . ] |
| 29 | Wijeratne 's other enemies included the Janata Vimukti Peramuna ( JVP ) , the Sinhalese group whose southern-based insurgency he had effectively destroyed in a ferocious campaign in late 1989 [ see pp. 37042 and 37353 ] , and the gambling industry , a casino operator having been deported in February . |
| 30 | The councils had effectively agreed to a ministerial veto in sensitive areas including ‘ matters liable significantly to involve ministers including highly contentious and politically sensitive matters of moment ’ . |