Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps easier to work with the Germans , whom Britain fought so bitterly in the first half of this century , than with the French or the Italians , whose active roles in the Second World War were prematurely curtailed . |
| 2 | During the show that night , she tried so hard in the second song , which was now ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ that her voice cracked on ‘ No rosebud is nigh ’ . |
| 3 | She handed over a neatly wrapped ‘ mixed bunch ’ to one customer , with a chatty , ‘ Here you are , love , ’ and moved swiftly on to the next . |
| 4 | It is important to stress that the method of control has in fact changed quite substantially over the last few years . |
| 5 | The simultaneous process of relaxing autarchy and rapprochement with the western democracies moved very slowly in the first half of the 1950s . |
| 6 | It seemed all over in the 63rd minute when Clough , a few yards outside the penalty area , volleyed a headed clearance instantly into the roof of the net before Hardwick could move a muscle . |
| 7 | Within a month he knew almost as much about oven temperatures , controls , rising yeast and the correct mixture of flour to water as either of the two assistants , and as they were dealing with the same customers as Charlie was on his barrow , sales on both dropped only slightly during the first quarter . |
| 8 | Erm , I mean , all in all they did , they did get the final result , the scene came together right from the last eleven minutes to achieve the result , but it was just there was a lot of confusion at the beginning of the start . |
| 9 | A key point to note is that every stage of processing was able to affect the score of a reading ; thus , for example , a reading that scored more highly during the first ( semantic conflation ) phrase could later be overtaken by another which allowed easier reference resolution . |
| 10 | ‘ They played really well in the first half and their commitment was total in the second half . |
| 11 | She did not fire when I asked her to go with the winner and faded right out in the last furlong , ’ said disappointed rider Frankie Dettori . |
| 12 | So much happened so fast in the next few days . |
| 13 | The gulf between Hitler 's immense popularity and the generally low standing of the Party had nevertheless if anything widened still further in the first wartime years . |
| 14 | Posters and prints fared slightly better with a Twentieth Century Fox film poster of The Blue Max movie reaching £50 , although an original of the famous Winston Churchill Let Us Go Forward Together poster only fetched £45 , instead of the £100–200 estimated . |
| 15 | After the last of these ( which , being the keeper 's , now stood empty ) the road degenerated into a track , and the track degenerated even more over the next mile until it was only twin ruts with grass between them . |
| 16 | This contrasts with Oxfordshire , which fared very well in the first period and very badly in the next two , and with Somerset , which had the smallest increase in the first period , followed by among the largest in each of the next two years . |
| 17 | Like the salt traffic , the cattle trade that developed so strongly from the sixteenth century onwards moved along existing green lanes and trackways . |
| 18 | Undoubtedly , the two interrelated movements — the democratic movement and the labour movement which developed so vigorously in the nineteenth century continue to have a major influence in politics , but the relation between them has changed during the present century , in a way which is also relevant to the character of more recent movements . |
| 19 | ‘ Heshang ’ , translated as ‘ River Elegy ’ was written by three intellectuals , Su Xiaokang , Xia Jun and Lu Xiang who wanted to address the question of why the Chinese civilisation , once a world leader , declined so rapidly after the seventeenth century . |
| 20 | A FRENCH prisoner in Nazi Germany who stayed behind the Iron Curtain after the Second World War for the love of a Ukrainian woman returned home yesterday for the first time in 52 years . |
| 21 | It did n't seem to affect her performance as she finished well ahead of the next woman home , Teresa Touhy , from , London Olympiads . |
| 22 | For example , outbreeding is much more likely to occur than brother-sister incest because of the apparently innate rule that individuals raised closely together during the first six years of life are inhibited from full sexual intercourse at maturity . |
| 23 | We all worked extremely hard in the next few days , cleaning all the rooms and preparing the food . |
| 24 | The impression already given that , by and large , the women interviewed did not enjoy their work , is dissected and examined more thoroughly in the next chapter . |
| 25 | But the volume of ‘ railway milk ’ traffic grew only slowly in the first decades of railway transport . |
| 26 | City were well in contention when Jon Bland kicked a penalty to make it 6–3 but they fell away badly in the second half . |
| 27 | The tourists had looked decidedly ordinary at times during the first half , but combined more fluently in the second to run up their most convincing victory to date , albeit a hollow one . |
| 28 | Tommy Johnson put the visitors ahead in the 28th minute and they went further ahead in the 40th minute when Swindon player-manager Glenn Hoddle fouled Martin Kuhl on the edge of the area and Mark Pembridge blasted the free kick into the net . |
| 29 | And they went further ahead in the 61st minute when Kit Symons headed home from close range . |
| 30 | That move apart , Motherwell did not seem interested in the match and it was no surprise when the Dons went further ahead in the 36th minute . |