Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within each caste there existed numerous subdivisions , which allotted members a ranking vis-à-vis each other . |
| 2 | Indeed it was at this time that scientism really began to become important , not only in Britain but throughout western Europe , the USA , Russia and Japan . |
| 3 | That division already existed on grounds of harsh military logic . |
| 4 | Now when the C G B was broken up , that money just disappeared . |
| 5 | God I have n't the buyer 's guide and all that bit just went straight over my head that 's . |
| 6 | as you turn it up , it 's gon na pull straight , that bit still did n't do it so we went to the other side , put the cramp the other way and having put that one down and that one up , now if you sight that now through there |
| 7 | Maxim got slowly to his feet his thoughtfull face sending a shiver through George , because that look usually meant he might be going to do something . |
| 8 | The volume control is too far back ; this makes quick access a pain and any sudden movements in that direction invariably set your finger(s) on a collision course with the selector switch . |
| 9 | So the thing is , if he , inconsistent in that story , if he 's doing that , that direction how did he get shot from that way , where he 's own telling stories apparently coming from ? |
| 10 | From that direction there came the sound of small-arms fire , carried distinctly on the slight breeze . |
| 11 | Much though my hon. Friend may dream about the days of beer and sandwiches , I should have thought that the Opposition were so besotted with Europe that it would have to be cafe and croissants , if that change ever came about . |
| 12 | It would be both remarkable and alarming if that change alone did not bring greater scrutiny to bear on the perennial dilemmas of NATO strategy and of roles and responsibilities in the Alliance . |
| 13 | That half-smile still lingered , needling Merrill . |
| 14 | With great respect I can see no basis for concluding that Parliament ever addressed its mind to the problem which arose in In re O. [ 1991 ] 2 Q.B . |
| 15 | When your heart is beating sufficiently fast , the next time you try to pick up Wilma she 'll follow you home ( wish that technique still worked today , it 'd make my life much easier ) . |
| 16 | But now it 's like that part never happened , we 're just one big happy family . |
| 17 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 18 | That case also arose out of a motor accident at the time when the infant 's mother was carrying the unborn child . |
| 19 | Matthew Chieke was one of those charged with the bank raid , but that case never came to court . |
| 20 | In that case how did it get into a Peat bog ? |
| 21 | What that sentence really said to the audience and viewers was : ‘ It 's people who matter to me and I 'm going to take care of my fellow Americans real well . ’ |
| 22 | He told me that hair only shone after much combing , and that the same could be said of style . |
| 23 | But that wedding evidently did not take place , and in December 1753 it was Ann Bowden whom he rushed to the altar in Exeter , his bride being already heavily pregnant with the first of their many offspring . |
| 24 | If employers ignore advice and subsequently it emerges that it was a real problem , that steps should have been taken , that research elsewhere showed it to be a reasonable system to look after employees mental health , then the scale is potentially enormous . |
| 25 | By the year 1931 , the population of Great Britain had reached 44.9 million persons , but that figure now included the people in Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | In those days guests would retire to an antechamber after the main meal for a banquet of blancmange — neither term then meant what they do today . |
| 27 | The British monarchy , and the survival of aristocratic titles dating back to the Norman conquest lend a spurious sense of continuity to English history ( if not to that of the other countries in the UK ) , suggesting that feudalism imperceptibly evolved into modern capitalist democracy . |
| 28 | " But I do n't think that soldier even had a gun . " |
| 29 | That industry probably started in nineteen seventy five with the diaries of Labour 's Richard Crossman . |
| 30 | Substituting t-butyl hydroperoxide for alloxan in a similar experiment , Clark found as he had hoped , that parasitaemia again dropped radically . |