Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ soft ’ tradition is , apparently , concerned to ‘ treat people as people , and [ is ] concerned less with law-making and more with speculative exploration ’ . |
| 2 | Charles baulked slightly at that and then he realized that Bernard actually thought himself Noel Coward . |
| 3 | When the crisis broke out in 1294 considerable arrears had accumulated on all these clerical levies : from the lay subsidies of 1275 and 1290 on their temporalities ; from the direct clerical subsidies of 1279–80 and 1290 ; and from papal tenths granted both in 1274 and especially in 1291 . |
| 4 | The move towards this more complex kind of painting reaches a climax in the still lifes that Braque painted late in 1909 and early in the following year , for example Violon et Cruche and Violin and Palette . |
| 5 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 6 | The cupboard smelled slightly of damp and even on a warm summer evening Ginny felt the prickle of goose pimples rising on her bare arms . |
| 7 | Half a million foreign tourists visited the USSR in 1950 , but over two million did so in 1971 and over five million did so in the late 1980s . |
| 8 | Atherton batted beautifully for 42 but then left kicking himself for slamming a wide ball from Reiffel straight to cover off the back foot . |
| 9 | And that there were tourists is shown by Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice , published finally in 1813 but mainly written in 1796 : in it Elizabeth Bennet is invited by her aunt and uncle to accompany them to the Lakes , and exclaims : ‘ My dear , dear aunt , what delight ! |