Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Not only houses had glass , of course .
2 So oligarchy meant government not simply by a few , but by a few of the " rich and well-born " ; democracy was government by the many poor .
3 And so Ian went north to Barnsley but , after completing another century of appearances for The Tykes , his link with Palace was re-established in June 1984 when he joined Steve Coppell as Assistant Manager here at Selhurst Park , and helped to fashion the team that restored 1st Division football at The Palace in 1989 , although by the time of Palace 's promotion , Ian had taken over as Manager of Swansea City .
4 In the ‘ old south ’ , on the other hand , only Tennessee provided ratification ( in 1972 ) , along with the ‘ border States ’ of Texas , Kentucky , West Virginia , Maryland and Delaware .
5 Swiftly Caledor took ship for the shrine .
6 At one o'clock Rachaela ate lunch , and at five past two , half an hour too late , she got up and left for the antiques shop .
7 Mother Joseph seemed utterly remote , her voice lost in the clamour of my mother 's voice , my mother 's certainty that only marriage represented sanity , security , good behaviour in a dangerous world of hostile winds and people who were ‘ not one of us ’ , talking to themselves .
8 So Roxburgh made sense for that King David .
9 During the crucial five months ( November-March ) when groundwater resources are normally replenished , only November saw rainfall at normal or above-normal levels .
10 Perhaps Puccini discovered part of the secret of including a degree of narration within a melodic framework which could be called an ‘ aria ’ without upsetting the melodic and formal definition of the music .
11 However , it is time to take a more positive view , and to look at the way early organisms began to combine energy from the sun with gases in the atmosphere and in so doing enabled life as we know it to evolve .
12 The three SNP MPs who voted with the Government this week , and by so doing exerted pressure for increased Scottish representation on the proposed European committee of the regions , acted correctly and in accord with that principle .
13 They have seen a lot of world now — Rome , London , New York and Paris — and like most girls of their age are not yet discontented with this necessarily tourist oriented relationship with the outside world .
14 So Rita scoured junk shops for second-hand pieces to fill the rooms .
15 Spectrum bias is unlikely to have influenced our results for two reasons : ( 1 ) almost all the asthmatics agreed to be studied ( only 6% refused endoscopy ) and ( 2 ) one quarter of the asthmatics did not require chronic bronchodilator therapy , indicating that not all the patients had severe asthma .
16 Apparently Timmy carried identification in his wallet . ’
17 well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with .
18 So God created man in his own image , in the image of God created he them ; male and female he created them .
19 The school was closed on Wednesday as well so people had time to dry out and clear up the mess that the water had made .
20 It did n't produce perfection , and so people introduced inspection .
21 Suddenly Mungo felt dread in his stomach like indigestion .
22 So Menotti spelt clout — and credit .
23 Possest of these , the justly temper 'd Flame
24 However , 39% felt tax planning was the most useful area of advice , and only 27% cited business strategy .
25 Conversely , when that was just what she wanted , suddenly Leith felt alarm that her weekend with Naylor would so soon be over .
26 Although not significant , only women had relationship primary problems .
27 ‘ You type , of course ? ’ he queried conversationally , and suddenly Fabia felt panic hit the pit of her stomach .
28 So Douglas turned producer with his very next film , The Indian Fighter .
29 So Ariel kept vigil as the night came down on that day nearly four hundred years ago , when everything changed for them .
30 According to the evidence at the trial , only Zaidie bore witness to the defendant 's telephoned confession , but the defence might have promoted a viable theory of conspiracy if they had been able to show that Matadial had also testified to a confession , then resiled from it in her deposition , taken the offensive again in her addendum and finally opted for a female voice in her evidence .
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