Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By experimenting with the duration of incubation they found that fusion occurred after only a few hours , and that viable hybrids could be grown in a liquid culture medium containing glucose , monosodium glutamate , a mixture of vitamins , sodium chloride and extracts of Raphanus brassica ( common mustard ) . |
| 2 | This , the first word Mungo had ever heard him utter , other than the mysterious ‘ lymenner ’ , came as rather a shock , as though a pillar-box had suddenly spoken . |
| 3 | In the middle of all this , the Burton Group 's announcement that it was cutting 2,000 jobs came as rather a rude shock . |
| 4 | ‘ It came as quite a surprise ’ , said one . |
| 5 | The body is made from a single piece of mahogany , which came as quite a surprise , because at a casual glance you 'd think it was ash . |
| 6 | It came as quite a shock to enter the brightly-lit building . |
| 7 | I can promise you that the total came as quite a shock to me , I was convinced it would be well in excess of my budget . |
| 8 | Still , relegation came as quite a shock to the system . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're delighted to get the award but it came as quite a surprise , ’ said business director . |
| 10 | A meeting at Bristol Guildhall on 17 November was called to congratulate the king on his escape , but attracted as well a large group who wished to implore him to end the war . |
| 11 | On 18 February , following ‘ The Rout of Moy ’ , Inverness was occupied by the Jacobites without resistance , and three days later Fort George , the eastern pivot of Wade 's Highland line , capitulated after only a few shots had been fired . |
| 12 | Competition could be fierce , as a young Dundee officer discovered when even the influence of the powerful David Scott failed to secure him a place for the voyage of 1801 because |
| 13 | It was believed that Butch , or Bomber Harris as they called him , did n't care how many men he lost if only the final result was the defeat of Hitler . |
| 14 | Robertson is the twenty-three-year-old secretary of the Bruges Group , the all-party pressure group he founded while still an Oxford undergraduate , and which is dedicated to exposing the terrors of federalism within the European Community . |
| 15 | The trouble started when around a hundred and fifty travellers arrived back at their illegal camp after a wedding . |
| 16 | But her garden smelled of honeysuckle and jasmine and roses from the bushes which grew where once the hens had scratched . |
| 17 | Terry Scott played a sergeant ( and then disappeared until quite a bit later in the series ) . |
| 18 | During the long years of war , their numbers slowly dwindled till only the most savage , cunning and ruthless survived to carry the war to Chaos . |
| 19 | Nick and I went to see Canon Oates and we knew after only a few minutes in his company that he wanted to help very much . |
| 20 | Gordon left after just a year . |
| 21 | They left after about an hour , without seeing Koffigoh , who denounced their actions in a broadcast later in the day . |
| 22 | The Party wanted ‘ root and branch ’ electoral reform , she said as well a Green might and ( among many other things ) more power for parish councils . |
| 23 | Turning back to the local rag he learned that the police had as yet no clue to the identity of the woman whose body had been fished out of the canal . |
| 24 | But the letter to Ritschl ( if we take it at face value , as we presumably should ) shows that Nietzsche had as yet no thought of basing a book on these subjects , although something pertinent to " Greek music drama " or " Socrates and tragedy " would , no doubt have been among the various matters envisaged for the miscellany in the " literary history or the " new ideas and views " . |
| 25 | Giving in to the inevitable , and until she had found out the truth she had as yet no quarrel with his mother , Ellie relaxed her rigid stance . |
| 26 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
| 27 | The RAF were expecting them , and a motorised ack-ack unit had been called in with their Scammells and their diesel generators and their giant mobile searchlights to blaze away with 3.7 inch AA guns at what they tentatively registered as about a dozen Heinkels flying very high , too high to be in danger . |
| 28 | Mr Sharp , in introducing the questions at the end of this session , wondered if eventually the EC would standardise the statute of limitations . |
| 29 | She wondered if perhaps the ‘ magic ’ was getting stronger ; and if so , then wherever would it all end ? |
| 30 | I wondered if perhaps the letters Mrs Connon had received could have been associated with phone-calls as well . ’ |