Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason was that they could not resolve ambiguity between competing lexical interpretations on a word-by-word basis , and so had to maintain possible interpretations in a representation that was separate from the lexicon . |
| 2 | The company needed workers , and so began building small terraces of houses for its labourers to live in . |
| 3 | Luckily , I was put on their reduced fee scheme and only had to pay six pounds a session . |
| 4 | From palaeomagnetic evidence , it is alleged that the African and European continents moved vast distances during the Devonian and only began to approach each other during Carboniferous times . |
| 5 | This effect gathered force as it was incorporated into political strategy , picked up by other media , entered into gossip , and thus came to overshadow immediate reality as it might have been recorded by an observer on the scene . |
| 6 | In the study conducted in Great Britain during the late 1950s , an important finding was that 28 per cent of multiparous women aged 35 and over had elevated diastolic blood pressure compared to 17 per cent of those under age 25 . |
| 7 | Two 's company , three 's a crowd , but when you 're talking about this generalized and more desexualized supplemented narcissistic libido to do with ego , then of course three is not a crowd in fact three erm is , is , er is the is er just as easy to accommodate as three thousand or three million , because it 's , it can be channelled into the group . |
| 8 | By 1938 , the District achieved a balanced financial position and thereafter began to accumulate small credit balances . |
| 9 | Holmes , for example , whose textbook ‘ Principles of physical geology ’ was used by generations of geology students , once had a paper rejected by the Geological Society of London , and thereafter refused to submit any papers to any of that body 's journals , throughout a very long and prolific career . |
| 10 | This bird , born around 1762 , lived in such comfortable circumstances that it had already reared eight broods when , to the consternation of its noble owner , it suddenly developed the plumage and spurs of a male and thereafter refused to lay another egg . |
| 11 | Marx was of course examining reproduction in its particular capitalist form , and hence tended to emphasise this aspect . |
| 12 | This studied the texts by the techniques of literary and historical analysis , attempted to separate out historical material from legend or poetry , and even began to raise sensitive problems of authorship — as , for instance , whether all the first five books of the Old Testament were in fact written by Moses . |
| 13 | On one , never to be forgotten occasion , I went to Stonehenge , had a puncture after only a mile on the way back and then had to walk nine miles home . |
| 14 | You say in your book that in June 1959 you had lunch at Claridge 's with Basil Taylor and then began collecting British art . |
| 15 | Gabriel Oak was a sensible man of good character , who had been brought up by his father as a shepherd , and then managed to save enough money to rent his own farm on Norcombe Hill , in Dorset . |
| 16 | At the same time , there is a tendency for the new technologies and work routines to short-circuit the subtle relays through which journalists traditionally learned their craft and then struggled to retain some control over the final product . |
| 17 | She handed him his dressing gown and then knelt to add some coal on the fire . |
| 18 | But as they made their getaway the gang crashed into a lorry , and then panicked hijacking four cars at gunpoint , and opening fire on police . |
| 19 | Sammy slept under the navigator 's table and never seemed to have any reaction to the gyration of the aircraft or the attention of the natives with their flak and fighters outside . |
| 20 | West Venture was acquired in March 1988 but only began to make significant sales this year . |
| 21 | Wilson felt only dimly aware of Miss Blagden 's kindness but later came to realise this sign and evidence of human concern had most probably saved her that time from real madness . |
| 22 | In the first months of Kennedy 's presidency the United States not only undertook a substantial arms build up , but also began to float new ideas in strategic doctrine , most notably Maxwell Taylor 's theory of flexible response . |
| 23 | In the 1920s Pearson resumed his acting career but also began publishing short stories , essays , and journalism . |
| 24 | If the proposed partition led to fighting , the Arabs who were bereft of any coherent leadership ( the Mufti and other Palestinian leaders had been exiled since 1939 ) , would depend wholly on the armies of their Arab neighbours , of which Abdallah 's was not only unquestionably the best but also stood to capture most territory . |
| 25 | The three climbers who originally passed the message to them were eventually traced , and confirmed that not only had they informed the Guardia Civil in person on the 21st , but afterwards had phoned each day to see if Jeremy had been found . |