Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nominally they retained their autonomous status , but their provincial assemblies effectively became mere rubber-stamp bodies , and the powers of their provincial governments and judiciary were drastically curtailed . |
| 2 | They appeared in parts over five years from March 1755 to June 1760 and eventually made two folio volumes . |
| 3 | Bibikov was no liberal , but neither were some of those who eventually made major contributions to the emancipation of 1861 . |
| 4 | Edward 's manipulation of the wool trade for his financial advantage intensified the divisions between the small group of wealthy merchants who stood to benefit from Edward 's schemes and the lesser merchants who eventually made common cause with the producers in opposing the monopolistic structure that Edward tried to create . |
| 5 | The perpetual spring Schorne had divined for his parish in time of drought came replete with gypsum , Epsom salts , and carbonic acid , and thereby lent considerable support to his posthumous reputation , principally as a healer of rheumatic and eye afflictions , but with an occasional talent in respect of dead oxen , the drowned , and the consolation of ‘ wretched , lonely boys ’ . |
| 6 | However , I suspect that Mains rather got some enjoyment out of appearing as some grim nemesis of the south . |
| 7 | Music business lawyer John Kennedy ( who successfully fought similar Stone Roses and Frankie Goes To Hollywood cases ) has been enlisted by Michael for his tussle with the corporate giant . |
| 8 | Quite a few were still fairly young and felt that the pension would be better cashed and put into the farm if they eventually became full-time farmers . |
| 9 | His third son , Theodore , eventually became technical head of London Transport ; Ernest , the second son , trained to become an art teacher but spent most of his life in industrial design and advertising ; the poet , too , possessed strong , capable , craftsman 's hands and the poet 's daughter , Myfanwy , still treasures many examples of her father 's skill as a carpenter and metal worker . |
| 10 | Although he remained as chairman of the Council of Ministers his influence waned compared to that of Brezhnev , who eventually became formal head of state in addition to party secretary . |
| 11 | Some of the others who eventually became well-known architects were John J. Stevenson , Charles Hodgson Fowler , Robert Johnson , and Scott 's own sons George Gilbert and John Oldrid . |
| 12 | Elsewhere , there 's a locally made 60 year old winnowing machine for separating the wheat from the chaff and even some ancient milk churns . |
| 13 | In 1854 the Revd Andrew Reed [ q.v. ] , a friend of Little 's , established the Royal Hospital for Incurables , and Little became medical examiner and a member of the governing board . |
| 14 | Full of stairs and small rooms on each floor and no garden to speak of , only a kind of paved area leading off the basement kitchen which rarely got any sun . |
| 15 | A survey found that many employers left nearly all travel arrangements to their secretaries who rarely got any thanks . |
| 16 | He rather distrusted Gallic logic . |
| 17 | Properly applied better-off tests would have highlighted how the lack of competition in an internalised link imposes extra costs . |
| 18 | Hesitation slowly became determined silence ; the line of her mouth tightened . |
| 19 | He rarely made fundamental mistakes and never , she suspected , about a man 's scientific ability . |
| 20 | They queued up , and eventually got two cups of strong steaming hot tea . |
| 21 | Most eventually got honorary Lifetime Achievement Awards — alias the ‘ Whoops , sorry , we forgot you ’ Oscars , or even ‘ Whoops , sorry , we did n't know you were still around ’ , as happened to Sophia Loren in January , thirty years after she won Best Actress for Two Women . |
| 22 | And erm we eventually got these things working and er I got the contract along with Jack to turn these pans over , you see ? |
| 23 | Through the book Theatre of the empire of Great Britaine by John Speed [ q.v. ] ( 1612 ) it eventually provided several generations of British and foreign map-users with their cartographic image of central and southern Ireland . |
| 24 | Zimbabwe eventually snatched that game 18–16 , but the Spanish had their revenge later ( see pages 36 & 37 ) . |
| 25 | Ironically she rarely used much make-up herself , but right now she could have done with a cover-up stick to hide the dark shadows beneath her eyes and some blusher to conceal at least a little of her pallor . |
| 26 | Meanwhile police have issued a videofit picture of a youth who indecently assaulted five women in North Wiltshire … |
| 27 | Her arrival effectively stemmed any action he was about to take . |
| 28 | He was accordingly arrested and taken to Vine Street Police Station where he duly provided two specimens of breath in the intoximeter . |
| 29 | His business skills and integrity earned him wide respect , and a strong personality reinforced his large physical presence — he latterly weighed eighteen stones . |
| 30 | Psychiatrists rarely visited younger patients at home unless a compulsory admission appeared necessary , but community psychiatric nurses were in close touch , often through their administration of regular depot injections . |