Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russians bitterly opposed West German rearmament , pointing out that this broke the 1945 Potsdam agreement . |
| 2 | Childhood instincts caused the individual to turn , on those occasions when his self-confidence failed him , to animate and inanimate objects to which he ascribed comforting powers similar to those originating in his parents , and these real objects eventually gave way to the imaginary ones that became the first ‘ gods ’ . |
| 3 | Knights naturally took precedence as the leading members of the class , and there is no difficulty about demonstrating that they were also the richest despite the existence of a good many whose incomes fell far short of £200 . |
| 4 | The hand-over of those objects only took place after Iraq had lodged a complaint with the United Nations . |
| 5 | Coleridge lived in London , and never returned to the North of England , so that meetings only took place on rare occasions . |
| 6 | Leonora Carrington , Leonor Fini and Meret Oppenehiem are amongst the many whose development as serious artists only took place outside Surrealism . |
| 7 | Once work for wages became the norm , different kinds of strategies necessarily took shape , although individual waged work did not remove the importance of the collective unit . |
| 8 | Four weeks of near stasis in voters ' attitudes apparently gave way at the last moment to a near avalanche . |
| 9 | The fights apparently took place every Sunday morning in a Muslim cemetery in Old Delhi : ‘ Bahot acha event hai , ’ said Balvinder . |
| 10 | As a significant movement of popular protest over sex purity marked a successful assault on the authority of male professionals , thereby drawing into the political arena groups hitherto denied access or without a voice . |
| 11 | Losses eventually led Midas to introduce security tagging systems , but Turner knows experienced lifters are well aware of how to get around such systems . |
| 12 | When the Halliday brothers eventually sighted Johnstone , the boat was drifting aimlessly with the tide . |
| 13 | As the tsars slowly transformed Ukraine from ally into colony , later generations of Ukrainians came to agree with their national poet 's assessment of him as ‘ the unwise son ’ . |
| 14 | Reid 's eyes suddenly engaged Culley 's . |
| 15 | It is easy to forget that the Lutyens team of craftsmen only had access to traditional methods and materials . |
| 16 | In 1294–7 , it has been calculated , the laity and clergy together yielded £280,000 in direct taxes to the king . |
| 17 | SCOTTISH educationists rarely disparage the ‘ trendy , progressive ’ teaching methods so maligned south of the Border . |
| 18 | The unfortunate animals apparently had poison bottles strapped to their backs , with the openings pointing towards their tails . |
| 19 | These cars already had conduit gear and did not need modification . |
| 20 | Old Big Ears soon took advantage , and our canter transitions were a shambles . |
| 21 | There was first night outrage when the MANIC STREET PREACHERS finally reached America last week , with NICKY upsetting a lot of music biz types at their New York showcase . |
| 22 | RADIO 1 's Newsbeat programme — a show DJs initially resented because they thought listeners just wanted music and chat — is 20 years old tomorrow . |
| 23 | The whiskers generally began life as exceedingly fine filaments which could be seen to thicken as they got older . |
| 24 | Like many players of that era , Jack 's footballing career was badly restricted by the war , but he was available to help us to our regional championship of the 3rd Division South in the first half of 1945–46 while , upon the resumption of League Football in 1946–47 , he shone as a half-back of real quality in a none too great Palace team and his performances quickly drew attention from several 1st Division sides . |
| 25 | The Duchess had sworn in a very mild tone , but her words still made Lord John bridle . |
| 26 | LEADERS of the 12 European Community nations yesterday added impetus to progress towards a single market in 1992 , while admitting that several important issues remained to be solved . |
| 27 | Using the tides to his advantage , he had beaten to windward across St Austell Bay as far as Deadman Point , and to his crew of six who manned the sheets and tended the lines , it had seemed that he had some magic way with him : every time they lost the fish , he would put about and find the shoal again , so that his lads hardly had time to swallow a hunk of bread or a gill of ale from one end of the day to the other . |
| 28 | Geometric designs gradually gave way to more curvilinear , Persian-style schemes during the period of Ottoman rule ( early 16th to late 18th centuries ) and some of these Ottoman Court carpets are among the finest examples of the period . |
| 29 | Cases involving taxi drivers usually took place at night in remote areas ; it was an easy form of attack . |
| 30 | Even then , 26 Tory Eurosceptics still defied Mr Major to vote against the Government while at least another six abstained . |