Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had many upper garments of different materials and styles which she changed according not to the weather but to her mood : she had large woollen jumpers and little skimpy vests , lacy or patterned blouses and voluminous T-shirts ; shirts of chiffon and shirts of linen . |
| 2 | The absorbed varieties , which are now rare , included the red-and-white colour-sided East Finnish ( Itä-Suomalainen Karja , or ISK ) , the red West Finnish ( Länsi-Suomalainen Karja , or LSK ) , which contributed as well to the creation of the Estonian Native in the USSR , and the white colour-pointed North Finnish ( Pohjois-Suomalainen Karja , or PSK ) , which was similar to the Swedish Mountain and is probably now extinct . |
| 3 | She freely admitted although only to herself that this was because Maxim would be there . |
| 4 | Dusty Hare , true , played as well for England as he did for his club , and deserved to win even more than his 25 caps . |
| 5 | John Buchan 's heroes and Sapper 's Bulldog Drummond were as patriotically gritty as he and deserved as well of their country , but their relations with women , if any , were models of chivalry and restraint . |
| 6 | And the time came when all round the world people started talking about the Costakis collection with reverence . |
| 7 | The slaughter happened as up to 50,000 ANC supporters crossed the South African border for a rally at a stadium in the Ciskei capital of Bisho . |
| 8 | No one ever looked ‘ a little lovelier each day with fabulous new Camay ’ — a bar of green Fairy soap worked as well on faces as it did on floors . |
| 9 | Go and talk to the fitters , interest myself in what made buses work and how they worked when down in the pits . |
| 10 | Cranston made the man repeat the message as he reluctantly took than out of the main hall and up the wide , spacious stairs to one of the duke 's private chambers . |
| 11 | The tourists took until late in the third quarter to overcome Wales B on Saturday at Cardiff Arms Park . |
| 12 | Unfortunately Shackleton died whilst still in the Antarctic on 5 January 1922 , and so he never did search for the treasure . |
| 13 | This was a bar that er went under the bomb like that when they fastened them up , and then when they dropped the bombs this bar was in a clip , like where me finger is , i in a clip so when they released them it dropped out of this clip the bar went as well of course , down that went down went the bomb drop bars with it used to be make them day and night and things like that and er of course there was er Bloxwich Lock and Stamping we used to do odd stamping , odd forgings and things li and er that was other part of the war work . |
| 14 | On Bonaire all three seats were won by the Bonaire Patriotic Union ( Union Patriotico Bonairiano — UPB — one in 1985 ) ; on St Maarten the Democratic Party of St Maarten ( DP-SM ) won two seats ( three in 1985 ) and the Patriotic Alliance won one , entering parliament for the first time ; on Saba the single seat went as before to the Windward Islands People 's Movement ( WIPM — not the West Indian People 's Movement as given on p. 36212 ) ; and on St Eustatius the single seat went as before to the Democratic Party of St Eustatius ( DP-SE ) . |
| 15 | On Bonaire all three seats were won by the Bonaire Patriotic Union ( Union Patriotico Bonairiano — UPB — one in 1985 ) ; on St Maarten the Democratic Party of St Maarten ( DP-SM ) won two seats ( three in 1985 ) and the Patriotic Alliance won one , entering parliament for the first time ; on Saba the single seat went as before to the Windward Islands People 's Movement ( WIPM — not the West Indian People 's Movement as given on p. 36212 ) ; and on St Eustatius the single seat went as before to the Democratic Party of St Eustatius ( DP-SE ) . |
| 16 | The windows were also provided with louvred shutters which could be removed and stored when not in use ; these shutters may have been in place at the time of capture . |
| 17 | We agreed that without our set we felt as out of touch as two visitors from outer space . |
| 18 | I laughed as well at the time , but it stuck with me . |
| 19 | But he benefitted as well from the instruction of the Zoological Society 's draughtsman , William Harvey , who had once been a student of Bewick . |
| 20 | Seb and Christian spoke until well into the night about the changes that total disafforestation would bring to the area — and to the gipsies in particular . |
| 21 | At the same time they had established bases in India in which they exercised some degree of local political authority , though only in the way that trading companies normally did when away from home , and with no idea of challenging the authority of the Great Moghul , the ruler of India . |
| 22 | When the States-General had particular items of important business to transact with a foreign state it continued until late in the century to send abroad for this purpose missions recruited from its own members : sometimes as many as sixteen were accredited . |
| 23 | It lasted till well after tea and then there was a quiet night . |
| 24 | Sales boomed during the mid-1980s , against the trend towards ‘ power-dressing ’ and , bizarre though it might seem , the formula sold as well in Korea as in Kensington . |
| 25 | The great church was mute and dark , for compline was long over , since the routine of the house clung as yet to its winter timetable , and the monks were in their beds until midnight should rouse them for matins . |
| 26 | Then the social worker got us this flat and Keith moved in with us , and he stayed until just before Christmas , and we 've been on our own ever since . |
| 27 | Whitbread received several accounts of the inquest , which sat until late into the night . |
| 28 | ‘ It involves making them take the shape wanted while still in solution , ’ Causton says . |