Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I got on at 50-1 immediately after that race , and had a fair bet . |
| 2 | I think that part of our business makes it more difficult because ah the purchase of Allied Carpets by Carpetland is the space of the market at a fairly speedy rate and I personally believe other retailers will have the policy to sub-let surface areas in the next few years so it 's something we got on with three years ago and very pleased we did it . |
| 3 | The fact is that this last Muddletonian lived on till nineteen seventy-nine , and we believe that the , the sect ends with him there . |
| 4 | In 1879 Crookes sold the Quarterly Journal ; it lived on until 1885 , becoming in its last years a monthly-but it had never been a leading journal , and general scientific reviewing never caught on . |
| 5 | His wife Hannah lived on until 24 February 1778 . |
| 6 | Henry 's only son , William , was drowned at sea in 1120 , but Henry lived on until 1133 . |
| 7 | Although Margaret 's father lived on until 1385 , English interests in Flanders were now gradually eclipsed . |
| 8 | The king 's son mounted his horse again , and they rode on for seven days , until they came to the islands of the Black Sea , where there is such darkness that a spoon might stand up in it . |
| 9 | The application of sophisticated mathematical techniques and other Blue Skies approaches in engineering may come about through collaboration , but the important point to realise is that once formal or rigorous methods have been developed and applied successfully in one field of engineering , they may be applicable , suitably modified , to others and perhaps lead to more reliable specifications and designs in general . |
| 10 | The fusion reaction has in fact technically been achieved at the Princeton Tokomak fusion test reactor which operated successfully for 50 milliseconds . |
| 11 | He said that the Labour party intends to increase the burden of council spending met locally to 20 per cent . |
| 12 | In the Construction sub-sector , for example , the use of railway-owned vehicles on aggregates traffic ceased altogether in 1989 , following the withdrawal of a pool of 16.5 tonne opens based in the Peak District . |
| 13 | Barnard considered that the energy introduced into the homoeopathic potency during the succussion process stabilized the arrangement of the water polymers and that it was these shape-specific polymers which were built up and passed on from one potency to the next . |
| 14 | In the case of Statement B racism is entailed in a set of inherited predispositions passed on from one generation to another . |
| 15 | We found a neat village south of Peterlee called Elwick , complete with tree-decked , green , Tabatha Twitchet shop and two super pubs , where we lived uneasily for three years . |
| 16 | We were a group of young people who all lived locally in one of the poorest areas on the outskirts of San Salvador . |
| 17 | He and Julius Sumawe , of Tanzania , passed halfway in 1:04:45 after easily discarding the rest of the field in the first kilometre . |
| 18 | Rincewind got down on one knee , the better to arrange the picture , and pressed the enchanted lever . |
| 19 | I got down to eleven stone and then I stuck |
| 20 | I got down to ten stone . |
| 21 | But I got down to ten stone . |
| 22 | I got down to ten |
| 23 | But he got down in two more , for a bogey five , and then the chasers , Langer and David Graham , found they had run out of puff . |
| 24 | Buck got down in two for a par and strode off to the 18th tee two strokes in the lead . |
| 25 | It looked odds on to go to extra holes but unfortunate for Michael he three putted , Colm got down in two won 1up . |
| 26 | Sadberge won the wooden trophy made especially by one of the Haughton players . |
| 27 | It swooped down on one of the dogs and was standing on its chest with its beak at her throat . |
| 28 | But otherwise the main principles of planning law , laid down in 1909 , were maintained : future development should accord with an approved town planning scheme ; compensation to be payable to landowners injuriously affected ; and betterment to be payable to a local authority when an increase in land values accrues as a result of planning proposals . |
| 29 | The said finished Products shall be purchased at the prices laid down in cl 5 and the said packaging materials at cost to the Supplier plus five percent . |
| 30 | Stately horse chestnut trees guard the green , and that sacred piece of greensward , the cricket pitch , laid down in 1929 , is the perfect backdrop for the players in white clothing . |