Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | The Craven family of Ashdown Park eventually bought Compton Beauchamp in the middle of the nineteenth century , but never lived there . |
2 | Recklessly deciding that the appointment was to become effective on All Fools ' Day , April 1 , IBM Corp duly named Louis Gerstner to the posts of both chairman and chief executive . |
3 | The crusade eventually produced Jess Willard , who , in April 1916 , challenged Johnson in Havana , Cuba . |
4 | The Russians bitterly opposed West German rearmament , pointing out that this broke the 1945 Potsdam agreement . |
5 | Nonetheless , in the mid-1950s , Dr J. G. O'Mara of Iowa State University successfully applied Givaudon 's colchicine technique to a hybrid of rye and durum , and hence produced hexaploid triticales ; one set of chromosomes from rye , plus two sets from the tetraploid durum makes three — and double it , to make six . |
6 | The next day , to its credit , parliament overwhelmingly rejected Mr Kuchma 's resignation . |
7 | There was a strong crusading tradition in the Geneville family , extending back to the mid-twelfth century : Geoffrey and his brother William duly accompanied Edward on crusade in 1270 , but returned before him . |
8 | Provincial branches of Narkomzem only contacted Moscow when in need of salaries and funds — otherwise they led independent lives . |
9 | Since culture of PBL in the presence of cycloheximide greatly reduced ELISA index values ( mean 0.87 [ 0.11 ] ) , the antibodies detected must have been newly synthesised . |
10 | Reason — I think Harvey only replaced Sprake just before 1972 cup final . |
11 | YESTERDAY The Scotsman wrongly described Edinburgh plumber Lawrence Allison as the winner of a competition to find the plumber of the year . |
12 | William had to fight a much more serious war in Ireland , where the Catholic majority naturally saw James as their best hope for power ; the successful defence of Londonderry and the victory at the Boyne in 1690 became immovable parts of the Protestant tradition ; the Treaty of Limerick and the Protestant failure to honour the treaty 's promises of religious toleration became unforgettable parts of the Catholic view of the history of Ireland . |
13 | The trial only revealed Godoy 's political and moral isolation and convinced Napoleon that these ‘ dirty intrigues ’ made either faction an impossibly unreliable ally . |
14 | Denis patiently instructed Joey in what to do and he and Michael kept him from talking too loudly . |
15 | When the Palestinian revolt broke out in 1936 , Abdallah secretly urged Britain to exile Palestinian leaders , and offered to work with the Jewish Agency to sabotage intervention by other Arab states . |
16 | After 1537 Musgrave mostly abandoned Cumberland and moved to his house in London . |
17 | Losses eventually led Midas to introduce security tagging systems , but Turner knows experienced lifters are well aware of how to get around such systems . |
18 | Olivier flew straight out while Asher discreetly told Finch that it would be a good idea if he moved out of Vivien 's room . |
19 | Richard rather liked Willis 's pictures , and had got him to do a pen and wash drawing of Lord Jim . |
20 | Of course , if this is correct the chronicle presumably reached St Augustine 's by way of the Cathedral , Christ Church . |
21 | When the Halliday brothers eventually sighted Johnstone , the boat was drifting aimlessly with the tide . |
22 | As the tsars slowly transformed Ukraine from ally into colony , later generations of Ukrainians came to agree with their national poet 's assessment of him as ‘ the unwise son ’ . |
23 | And Becky duly chose Barbara as an ideal make-over subject , and took a camera crew over to Widnes to do an interview and to re-vamp Barbara 's image . |
24 | Recklessly deciding that the appointment should become effective on All Fools ' Day , April 1 , IBM Corp on Friday duly named Louis Gerstner to the posts of both chairman and chief executive . |
25 | US Open champion Tom Kite took a seven at the fourth , but Faldo swiftly obliterated Craig Parry 's three-shot overnight lead . |
26 | At seven a.m. the following morning , contemplating newspaper headlines which screamed ‘ The Filth and the Fury ’ , and with the clamour of shareholders ringing in his ears , Leslie Hill personally telephoned Branson at home with a simple request , ‘ Can we talk ? ’ |
27 | Reid 's eyes suddenly engaged Culley 's . |
28 | ‘ Laughton only played Hook . ’ |
29 | His reply so angered Mrs Ellerton , who has an interest in local history , that she wrote to the publishers in Shropshire . |
30 | Edwina Currie rightly criticised Mr Major for stomping around in a Barbour jacket . |