Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Hamleys bag sat on the dressing table at the end of his room , the one clean , bright item in the place , and Joe lay back on the bed and stared at it as the daylight outside gave way to the evening . |
| 32 | The fighting largely involved Inkatha supporters in migrant workers ' hostels , in conflict with non-Zulu township residents . |
| 33 | A record 743 cars took part in 1950 which meant the last car away left Brescia about 12 hours after the first ! |
| 34 | But her early surge soon gave way to predictable ring-rust after five years off the professional circuit . |
| 35 | The State Department thus confirmed Macmillan 's recommendation that the Cossacks in 5 Corps area should be handed over to the Soviets in accordance with the Yalta agreement . |
| 36 | The Confederation of British Industry yesterday said MPs ' pay must also be pegged . |
| 37 | A MAJOR meat industry figure yesterday endorsed livestock producers ' legitimate expectations of premium prices for quality products . |
| 38 | The offence took its title from the French ‘ effrayer , ’ to frighten , and its essence was that the defendant deliberately took part in fighting or other acts of violence of such a character as to cause alarm to the public . |
| 39 | The military-oriented industries founded by Peter on forced labour gradually gave way to more diversified manufacture based on hired labour ( generally serfs still sending payments back to their villages ) . |
| 40 | This fluency once led Mikhail Botvinnik to class Reshevsky as a mere ‘ spieler ’ , meaning a coffee-house player . |
| 41 | The blood gets washed away in the morning so there 's no evidence to suggest a crime ever took place . |
| 42 | The advent of motorized transportation further improved communications . |
| 43 | The town was packed with carts and horses for the Great Killer always kept Calais well fortified . |
| 44 | Queen Margaret College yesterday announced plans for a major expansion on to a new campus , costing up to £10 million and aimed at carrying the former domestic science school to the size required for university status . |
| 45 | THE financier who made a billion when Chancellor Lamont lost the battle for the pound yesterday gave £32 million to charity . |
| 46 | FILM director Woody Allen 's young lover yesterday dismissed rumours that their affair was on the wane . |
| 47 | Labour yesterday demanded publication of the report , which warns that British industry is in a lamentable state and will take decades before being fit enough to compete internationally . |
| 48 | LABOUR yesterday claimed funding for Durham Training and Enterprise Centre would be cut by almost £1m from next month . |
| 49 | The druggist surreptitiously slid Maxim 's coffee along the counter , fixing him next to Agnes . |
| 50 | THE US state department yesterday condemned Libya 's active chemical weapons programme but declined to confirm a detailed report of a new Libyan underground plant aimed at making and storing poison gas . |
| 51 | Hekmatyar had refused to join the interim government , and his forces and artillery still threatened Kabul from the south . |
| 52 | In 1844 one auxiliary corps of artillery still stood guard on the city walls at night , and they disturbed many people with their noisy alerts . |
| 53 | The bizarre confrontation yesterday saw punches thrown and claims that a shotgun was produced before police arrived to calm things down . |
| 54 | DONCASTER rugby league club yesterday sacked coach Geoff Morris and assistant Kevin Parkhouse . |
| 55 | The Jockey Club yesterday announced plans to maintain its Sunday racing campaign by sanctioning a mixed meeting of flat and jump racing at the Surrey track . |
| 56 | The trainer also entered Dilum in the race as a precautionary move . |
| 57 | A Yeltsin aide also gave warning that even if the congress voted to oust him , the president would refuse to quit on the grounds that the decision was illegal . |
| 58 | A bad snap on a Colts ' punt attempt later gave Pittsburgh the ball on the Indianapolis 34 and Malone connected with Brenberg for the final Steelers ' first half score with 1:03 remaining . |
| 59 | His thinking also took account of limited human rationality on the question of responsibility for offences ; unlike Beccaria he allowed for mitigating circumstances such as duress , infancy and insanity to reduce or even remove an individual 's liability to punishment . |
| 60 | The study also found tribunals frequently willing to attribute some contribution to the dismissal to the employee , which operates like a finding of contributory negligence to reduce the compensation payable . |