Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " 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 | Although a large proportion of Karavas were poor , some members of this caste successfully took advantage of entrepreneurial opportunities within the expanding market economy . |
| 3 | G thereby got hold of the barley , disposed of it and absconded . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The crusade eventually produced Jess Willard , who , in April 1916 , challenged Johnson in Havana , Cuba . |
| 6 | The Russians bitterly opposed West German rearmament , pointing out that this broke the 1945 Potsdam agreement . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The election of a successor eventually took place in February 1752 , when two candidates presented themselves , the Rev. William Jackson and the Rev. John Chorley Knowles . |
| 9 | The next day , to its credit , parliament overwhelmingly rejected Mr Kuchma 's resignation . |
| 10 | The Prince politely shook hands with six Peggottys , two Betsy Trotwoods , eight Mr Pecksniffs , seven Mr Fezziwigs , eight Mrs Fezziwigs , two Doras , a couple of Little Dorrits , two Miss Flites , a villainous gentleman who announced he was the convict Magwitch , and numerous other Lionisers too nervous to announce their identities . |
| 11 | Childhood instincts caused the individual to turn , on those occasions when his self-confidence failed him , to animate and inanimate objects to which he ascribed comforting powers similar to those originating in his parents , and these real objects eventually gave way to the imaginary ones that became the first ‘ gods ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Knights naturally took precedence as the leading members of the class , and there is no difficulty about demonstrating that they were also the richest despite the existence of a good many whose incomes fell far short of £200 . |
| 14 | The hand-over of those objects only took place after Iraq had lodged a complaint with the United Nations . |
| 15 | Handover of the building only took place a couple of days earlier so many hands had made it possible for Mass to be celebrated in a beautiful setting . |
| 16 | Provincial branches of Narkomzem only contacted Moscow when in need of salaries and funds — otherwise they led independent lives . |
| 17 | Since under Israeli law a minister 's dismissal or resignation only took effect 48 hours after the initial announcement was made , Shamir left just enough time to clear the Cabinet of Labour ministers before the Knesset vote . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Coleridge lived in London , and never returned to the North of England , so that meetings only took place on rare occasions . |
| 20 | Reason — I think Harvey only replaced Sprake just before 1972 cup final . |
| 21 | Newman especially had faith in Whitaker as the ideal weaver of Doctor Who stories . |
| 22 | Leonora Carrington , Leonor Fini and Meret Oppenehiem are amongst the many whose development as serious artists only took place outside Surrealism . |
| 23 | Sheila especially had dreams of university . |
| 24 | Once work for wages became the norm , different kinds of strategies necessarily took shape , although individual waged work did not remove the importance of the collective unit . |
| 25 | YESTERDAY The Scotsman wrongly described Edinburgh plumber Lawrence Allison as the winner of a competition to find the plumber of the year . |
| 26 | ( iv ) If the creditor is aware , or ought to have been aware , that the surety has been subjected to undue influence by the debtor , it would be unlikely to be sufficient if the creditor merely took steps to ensure that the surety understood the nature of the liability he or she was accepting . |
| 27 | Germany alone received $9 billion in 1970 and $4 billion in the first five months of 1971 . |
| 28 | Bit long winded C C Q then put your back up . |
| 29 | We sat companionably enough , each ruminating on the nature of existence so early in the morning and contemplating the day 's activity , although Bernard obviously had opinions on that as well , judging by his expression . |
| 30 | Four weeks of near stasis in voters ' attitudes apparently gave way at the last moment to a near avalanche . |