Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This vast reorganization of the Imperial defences from the late third century onward produced defence road networks as well as a massive re-fortification of the frontiers themselves .
2 Sanders had been a Whip and a specialist in franchise matters before the war , so his return to Westminster gave an added impetus to the party campaign against the Bill ; he became a sort of unofficial party Whip against a government that the party supported , cooperated closely with George Younger , by this time Party Chairman , and eventually became deputy chairman of the party himself in 1918 .
3 Mrs Durbeyfield secretly made wedding plans .
4 Belfast councillor John Carson has been reported to his North Belfast Unionist Constituency Association over allegations that he verbally assaulted party member Fred Proctor .
5 But fortunately , you know , we , we only got tail end of it , a bit of sleet .
6 The main methods subjects from which students were drawn crossed the spectrum , except that no Physical Education teachers were mentioned ( this reflects one return from a College , which wrote back politely refusing to answer the questionnaire on the grounds that as they only trained PE teachers the language issue did not arise ) .
7 Jackson — forced to pull out of last year 's World Championship final when he suddenly suffered shoulder spasms minutes before the race — declared : ‘ I wo n't make the same mistakes again .
8 But a number of those have complained that although they paid premium prices , they only received budget accomodation .
9 If so , you could be the accountant who so incensed wildlife artist Adrian Rigby that he felt compelled to put his feelings about the profession into paint .
10 ‘ She was doing quite nicely when she suddenly developed gas gangrene .
11 He described how the Japanese used a laser beam strategy within a poorly drafted law to penetrate the European market while protecting their own domestic market behind a dynastic organisational structure which only permitted import access when the dynasty deemed it politically expedient to do so .
12 ‘ We only recorded Weed Bus because we wanted a mono seven-inch single of us to have in our record collections !
13 Certainly the change in legislation is unlikely to provoke a sudden rush of hitherto tied farm workers from the industry .
14 There were significant differences , for the factory system not only took child labour outside of the home , it placed it in an inferior overall environment .
15 ‘ I basically managed district nurses , health visitors , school and family planning nurses , ’ he said .
16 It said that during the quarter it greatly improved product delivery time to its resellers , and recorded the highest volume quarter in its history .
17 So bit image files frequently use data compression .
18 Thirty-three died , as apparently did passenger airships .
19 In exchange they eagerly proffered jade adze blades as well as weapons and articles of clothing .
20 So spoke Irish manager Ken Reid as he tried to dismiss Ireland 's record defeat at the Parc des Princes .
21 Not only did government growth require little positive commitment , the acceptance of a form of Keynesianism termed by Rose and Peters as one-eyed Keynesianism' , seemed to be telling politicians that public expenditure growth was a good thing .
22 Fortunately not only did growth return but on a scale far exceeding expectations .
23 Not only did rate-capping legislation have relatively little impact on spending patterns in selected authorities , it is questionable even whether overall local government spending was actually reduced .
24 As far as the family members were concerned normally those with off-farm jobs only did farm work on a seasonal basis .
25 But when Tatra 's once-guaranteed East European markets collapsed along with communism , so did truck sales .
26 Before it could be repaired foreign exchange ran short , and so did government income .
27 But so did Orange Juice , and they were bollocks . ’
28 So did student parties .
29 So did shop girls and office girls .
30 As the oil price rose , so did oil production .
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