Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Given there are some 100,000 climbers in the UK and only 100 or so took part , I ca n't help but think that a tremendous message of indifference . |
| 2 | Here a national outcry was provoked when fifteen white police officers either stood by and watched or personally took part in the systematic assault of a black man whom they had stopped after a car chase . |
| 3 | Between 1962 and 1976 breeding was established , or probably took place , regularly in 17 areas holding between 20 and 25 pairs . |
| 4 | Sometimes she managed a rare steak or else ate salad and ice-cream . |
| 5 | Outskirters seldom or never saw lettuce . |
| 6 | Consequently , she admits , ‘ There was a part of me that secretly felt evangelism was something you should n't do to your dog , let alone a friend ’ ( Pippert 1980:16 ) . |
| 7 | They gave Jack the chance to practise some of the underhand humour that eventually became part of his mystique . |
| 8 | The Strip , at the westerly end of Sunset Boulevard and closest to the hub of the film industry , was the avenue for poseurs where every young hopeful — and plenty not so young — hung out to be discovered in one of the dozens of coffee bars that eventually gave way to rock ‘ n ’ roll clubs and then strip shows of the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 9 | He told Sharpe his patrol was one of the many that daily scouted south to the French border and beyond ; this particular troop had been ordered to explore the villages south and east of Mons down as far as the Sambre , but not to encroach on Prussian territory . |
| 10 | Meditation was something that only happened east of Suez and although imaging was something I did every time I wrote a book , play or did a drawing , I had not associated it with my cancer . |
| 11 | Back beyond the Oligocene there is evidence only of archaeocetes , the rather large ancestral toothed whales that apparently gave rise to both the Odontoceti and Mysticeti . |
| 12 | We turned north , away from the mountain , then off the highway on to a dirt road that soon became sand . |
| 13 | Neither sociologically nor ideologically did Labour have much to offer . |
| 14 | On his face , with its childlike planes and arrogant nostrils and affectingly large eyes , was a distinct absence of the play of simple expressions that usually took place there . |
| 15 | THE revels that once took place at the New Year turned everything base over apex . |
| 16 | In Egypt , the growing reliance on huge imports of cheap grain from the United States has made it uneconomical for local farmers to grow grain , and large tracts of land that once grew food for local consumption now grow strawberries , luxury vegetables and other cash crops for export ( see Steif , 1989 ) . |
| 17 | It is gratifying to know that the industry that once gave employment to many hundreds of the local population , is still able to flourish in small pockets . |
| 18 | These were all in towns that still had evening paper competition : Birmingham , Bristol , Leeds , Leicester , Liverpool , Manchester , Nottingham , Edinburgh . |
| 19 | It was an ideal curtain-raiser to Mozart 's last piano concerto , No 27 in B flat , K 595 , played by Howard Shelley with a degree of understatement that still took account of the melancholy underlying the music . |
| 20 | At first it was filled with gases that modern organisms would find highly toxic , such as ammonia and possibly hydrogen cyanide — though these are the gases that probably gave rise to organic life . |
| 21 | The differences between these two races of wild cat support the idea that it was the African that originally gave rise to the domesticated feline . |
| 22 | They are , as I have emphasized , highly organized political formations , which tend to develop a life of their own , to some extent independent of the social interests that originally gave rise to them and of their changing environment , and may acquire the character ( or at least the appearance ) of permanent elements in the political system . |
| 23 | Having heard that , and secondly due to your patience er through your patience getting clarification that it the borough could if it wished allocate its sixty hectares under this structure plan policy outside the town centres and that things that then took place in town centres would be extra , it 's not something they have to do but it 's a freedom they would have in their local plan , having heard those two things , the concern I 've got that even at sixty hectares , Harrogate 's allocation was too small erm really recedes very quickly sir , and would completely disappear and here Mr Allenby and I are at one , |
| 24 | She now had the distinct feeling of nausea that sometimes accompanied overtiredness . |
| 25 | Shirley watched the programmes too , but was occasionally distracted by an intensity of experience that sometimes approached orgasm . |
| 26 | Most of York 's old central pubs have fallen victim to drastic recent remodelling with yawning spaces , often indistinguishable from one pub to another , replacing the old rooms and idiosyncratic nooks and corners that previously gave individuality and preserved genuine historic character . |
| 27 | ‘ every story is based on something that actually took place . |
| 28 | It is an example based on an interchange that actually took place in the seventeenth century between Galileo and an Aristotelian adversary . |
| 29 | Wife reminds me ( in middle of torment about Jack and Kate ) that actually had holiday with Jack and Kate and their three children in rented midden near Colwyn Bay . |
| 30 | Education — the election debate that never happened Labour and the Liberal Democrats would take our school system back to the bad old days , argues ANTHONY O'HEAR — so why have n't the voters been told as much ? |