Example sentences of "soon [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance attached to maintaining the ‘ prestige ’ of the emirs soon translated in practice into the importance of maintaining the autonomy of the Residents , and subsequent governors of Nigeria found almost without exception that Lugard had created an administrative monster which it was beyond their power to control . |
| 2 | I picked up my knife and attempted to copy the old lady but I soon got into difficulty . |
| 3 | The talks , repeatedly postponed since April 8 apparently because of failure to agree an agenda , soon got into difficulty , although it was reported on May 9 that the MNR had made a concession in allowing relief columns through to Mozambican refugees in Malawi . |
| 4 | This soon led to criticism of the excessive power of the Chancellor : ‘ The Chancellor 's position has become so strong that his opponents and supporters alike complain about his authoritarian style of leadership [ writing about Adenauer ] … |
| 5 | His exceptional progress soon led to exhibition matches and tours of western Europe , and on to America , where his family settled in 1920 . |
| 6 | It was not until Ismail became Sultan in 1863 ( soon changed to Khedive ) that there was another major drive towards modernisation , including an attempt to make Cairo the Paris of the East . |
| 7 | In Lancashire they soon changed from wool , to mixed wool and cotton , and then purely to cotton . |
| 8 | For a short while ( three months ) the family party remained within the crumbling Electric Circus walls but the talented and the lucky soon matured into pop stars and ambitious writers . |
| 9 | Disquiet at the new direction of religious affairs soon surfaced in parliament , and over the next few years a growing number of MPs began to speak out against the Arminian threat . |
| 10 | However , although several lengths behind , Clydal Pal soon moved into overdrive and picked up the leader in the home straight to win going away . |
| 11 | He soon came into conflict with Thomas Henry Huxley ( 182595 ) — known as ‘ Darwin 's bulldog ’ — over the question of humankind 's relationship to the great apes . |
| 12 | The project soon came under criticism for the role granted to a wealthy family-owned lumber group , the Durini Foundation , and for underestimating the effect of resettling 40-50 families to establish tree farms . |
| 13 | From here we carried on along a river and soon arrived at Sokol which has just one house — a traditional forester 's cabin with deer antlers above the front door . |
| 14 | At first written in German and Hebrew , these publications soon turned to English . |
| 15 | All thoughts of where they were and what was happening fled abruptly as she stared at him with a shock that soon turned to joy as she saw the expression on his face . |
| 16 | But his interest soon turned to politics , and in 1910 he entered the New York State Senate . |
| 17 | But although he learnt such skills as writing feasibility studies , he soon tired of life in the grant-aided voluntary sector . |
| 18 | Ingrid soon discovered from Ilse that the two waitresses had been supplementing their wages by selling sex . |
| 19 | It soon developed into disillusion as the town 's death toll grew and ended in jubilant relief not unmixed with sorrow at the memory of towns-folk who would not return . |
| 20 | He first started Judo 13 years ago at school and this soon developed into tai-boxing and ju-jitsu . |
| 21 | He claimed that they soon adapted to life in captivity and became useful pest-controllers . |
| 22 | One 's heart bled for Cowdrey , for he looked desperately nervous and soon succumbed without scoring . |
| 23 | The last pitch was a real sting in the tail , but the perplexing moves up a short crack in a wall soon succumbed to brute force and determination and I swung exultantly over a final bulge on the monstrous , weathered holds to sit satiated on the plateau , soaking up the sun until Alec pulled over , grinning with triumph . |
| 24 | But the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent development of Soviet society produced an emphasis upon another strand in Marxist thought about the transition to socialism ( one which had not hitherto been given much prominence ) involving the idea of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ; and in the specific conditions prevailing in Russia , which differed entirely from those in Western Europe , this soon evolved in practice into the dictatorship of the Bolshevik party , then the dictatorship of the party 's central committee , and finally the dictatorship of a single individual . |
| 25 | Only he had watched , fascinated , as the pool of blood collecting around the spilt innards suddenly burst its confines and set off down the road , finding its way slowly and with difficulty , its bright fresh surface soon matted with dust and drowning insects . |
| 26 | We soon went to bed . |
| 27 | The cheapness of the method , combined with the ease in ensuring that a particular colour would be identical in shade to the one used earlier , meant that plant dyes soon fell into disuse except in remote country areas . |
| 28 | Payments soon fell below subsistence level . |
| 29 | She soon fell in love with someone else , also about nine years older than herself , who seemed very keen and wanted to marry her . |
| 30 | The age component was essentially a revival from pre-war wage systems but the 25 per cent merit components soon grew in weight giving management more opportunity to distinguish between individual workers . |