Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Her brother , Merfyn , began training with his uncle as a motor engineer and eventually became a technical journalist . |
| 2 | So this individual , who I would n't have given three stripes across , eventually became a Chief Inspector . |
| 3 | The arrangement eventually became a sore point in relations between the US and Panama , which regarded the original treaty as an affront to its sovereignty . |
| 4 | At first resisted by conservatives who feared its materialistic implications , evolutionism eventually became a central theme of late nineteenth-century thought , the foundation for a unified philosophy of biological and social progress . |
| 5 | His second son John West Wilson was a resident agent in Gothenburg and eventually became a naturalized Swede . |
| 6 | It , too , eventually became a vital piece in the evolutionary jigsaw that Darwin was to assemble with the help of John Gould at the Zoological Society . |
| 7 | He flung himself into athletics and , eventually became a top-flight international sprinter ; which is just as well , for , had he not realized his early promise , he would have been stuck in a sports shop with no qualifications — which would not have reflected what he considered his genuine educational aptitude . |
| 8 | Hudson , the 26-year-old Natal opener , would not have noticed , rapt as he was in a deep reverie of concentration and technique which eventually produced a monumental 163 off 384 balls in nearly 8¾ hours . |
| 9 | And here was the bonus : the positive charge of the proton is so effectively shielded that it will now be able to encroach much closer to the nucleus of a neighbouring atom without being repelled ; the chance of bumping into it and undergoing nuclear fusion , ‘ cold fusion ’ , thereby became a real possibility . |
| 10 | ( She eventually got a third-class honours degree . ) |
| 11 | At first the beeves were indistinct masses , cold and blurry , but I eventually got a satisfactory materialisation . |
| 12 | Taking one of the white roads , I eventually found a small village . |
| 13 | STEPHEN Jones indecently assaulted a 10-year-old girl in a Cardiff park after offering to show her a birds ' nest . |
| 14 | For years , he had been prone to recurring attacks of Sickle Cell Anaemia , a rare and debilitating blood disorder that eventually triggered a premature heart attack . |
| 15 | Then he opened his eyes , spoke a few words and eventually tried a few tentative steps round his hospital room . |
| 16 | A single-union agreement was negotiated with the Amalgamated Engineering Union ( AEU ) , which effectively provided a no-strike deal for Nissan . |
| 17 | Two of his most memorable innings came in one-day internationals , the 138 not out in the 1979 World Cup final and the 189 not out at Old Trafford in 1984 which single-handedly transformed a desperate situation into a winning one , and which will surely never be forgotten by anyone who saw it . |
| 18 | Here at the scene of the crime he only made a preliminary examination . |
| 19 | Both rabbits together made a curious , dancing movement of the head and front paws . |
| 20 | In Britain in the early days of cinema , prosecutions were brought not for obscenity , but for breaches of licensing conditions , and when certification became the rule in 1923 , legal actions ceased for half a century until sex suddenly became a burning media issue in most Western countries . |
| 21 | My placid father who was just wiping his hands suddenly became a raging bull ! |
| 22 | The Disunited Kingdom suddenly became a potent slogan , and helped the Tories staunch the haemorrhage against them in Scotland . |
| 23 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 24 | As demand for food rose , the United States suddenly became a major exporter of agricultural goods , the surplus on that account rising from $1½ billion in 1972 to $10½ billion in 1974 . |
| 25 | Below meandered a little stream ; the stream believed to be the source of Charles Kingsley 's inspiration . |
| 26 | But then , as she stood stiff and resisting in his arms , he suddenly applied a gentle pressure , and all at once she was against his chest . |
| 27 | These have understandably been strained by the collapse of BZW 's profits to £5m last year , as well as by the £110m the bank had to pay last November to buy out most of the 200 former partners who together owned a fifth of the investment firm . |
| 28 | The boy was so far from being ill-used or closely confined that he apparently lived a normal life , at least within the walls , going and coming much as he pleased , and eating in hall like a member of the household . |
| 29 | Her ‘ traditional ’ primary education restricted her and she only became a professional journalist ( Echo February 4 ) . |
| 30 | Recording the electrical activity of single brain cells in mammals only became a viable proposition in the 1950s . |