Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a long day 's hearing , such as obviously took place here , that might be the sensible thing to do so that the court is not producing these important findings and reasons under pressure . |
| 2 | After lengthy backbench Opposition speeches had stretched out discussions , a government whip just after 11pm moved closure of debate , which Mr Bob Cryer ( Lab . |
| 3 | Certainly the change in legislation is unlikely to provoke a sudden rush of hitherto tied farm workers from the industry . |
| 4 | What the voters perceived and clung on to , especially in London , was that there has been a revolution in Britain in the 1980s and that it would be foolish to put it at risk because of deeply felt resentment at the recession . |
| 5 | The car drew to a halt by a green sward of carefully tended lawn which ran down from an impressive-looking office building towards the river . |
| 6 | Lissa wandered over to the window and gazed out over the expanse of carefully tended shrubbery that bordered the car park . |
| 7 | yeah — gazza can be macca , batty and even strachan — and what 's more he can be cuntona : as good as our midfield is we could have done with a ‘ tales of the unexpected ’ -type of player — the player who does things no one thinks of before said player actually does it ( im not talking about cuntano 's new shirt look … ) |
| 8 | In 1981 he launched the first of a series of closely watched consumer surveys . |
| 9 | At Vergina , later in the fourth century , the quality of recently discovered fresco-painting suggests an established tradition which might go back to Archelaos ' time ; and continuity is also suggested by Pliny 's statement ( Natural History xxxv.62 ) that Zeuxis gave Archelaos a painting of Pan , who was to be patron deity of the third-century Macedonian king Antigonos Gonatas ( see the coin illustrated as frontispiece to W. Tarn ( 1913 ) Antigonos Gonatas ) . |
| 10 | If animals , particularly mature birds and the higher mammals , are taken as possessing more or less the full range of human capacities , with the exception perhaps of moral agency , and if the only dissimilarity is that the capacities are manifested in more limited ways , then there will be an almost irresistible temptation to give them moral status approaching that of recently discovered Stone Age tribes such as the Dani of Irian Jaya . |
| 11 | A well-aimed plasma beam from above ignited fuel storage tanks . |
| 12 | As the warmth of the afternoon lessened , and the sun moved lower in the sky , and the Saturday afternoon noises of lawnmowers and children 's shouts gave way to the tranquillity of the evening , the quiet tenderness with which Johnny had been content until then gave way to a growing passion . |
| 13 | Because that one on there had counselling and group counselling , and er things like that on which are n't really things we 're familiar with . |
| 14 | For everywhere did man and wife |
| 15 | ‘ I had not till now received word from the queen my mother . ’ |
| 16 | Only the later nineteenth-century works are a let-down ; Bonn at obviously lacked pull with the great Impressionists and bought generally insipid work . |
| 17 | Rather like a beautiful animal , the other woman seemed to have sensed Kate 's own confusion and mixed-up feelings , because she at once took charge . |
| 18 | Blake and Moulton at once gave chase , and were soon able to report that the Royalist squadron had been almost totally destroyed . |
| 19 | Or at least got hold of the basic as I have said , the best way to do this , is to sit down with a piece of pencil and paper and work it out yourself . |
| 20 | But , dull and wanting though he might be , he at least had dignity , consideration , mensheskeit . |
| 21 | It is not difficult but plain impossible for any poll to anticipate swings of opinion , such as certainly took place last week . |
| 22 | The quadruple alliance consisted of Britain , France , Spain and Portugal which had by now got sort of liberal constitutional governments . |
| 23 | The Australians by now renamed Lancer Force , had a hospital and training base at Ainaro in addition to the HQ at Mape . |
| 24 | With the success of that first book , the Newsons were able to obtain funds for follow-up studies , but had by then lost contact with many of their original sample . |