Example sentences of "[num] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time eleven o'clock ticked round Travis had started to slur his words , and Leith had grown quite cross with Sebastian for so freely upending the bottle each time Travis 's glass came anywhere near empty . |
| 2 | Kuusinen 's report to the XIII Plenum of the ECCI in December 1933 still spoke of " the hypocritical and treacherous sophistries of social democracy " . |
| 3 | The pattern at sea level shown in Figure 2 also persisted in the upper atmosphere , with a high pressure ridge helping to steer cyclones along trajectories much further south than usual . |
| 4 | The undoubted economic recovery after 1933 also appeared to be coming to a halt in a new recession which began in the summer of 1937 . |
| 5 | Clearly the biggest problem was what to do about the tour , scheduled to leave Oxford at 9.30 a.m. bound for Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 6 | The bloodiest massacres were on Aug. 3 , when 140 reportedly died in attacks at two mosques in Kattankudy ; on Aug. 6 , when 58 bodies were recovered after two incidents ; and on Aug. 11-12 , when 100-170 were reported killed at Eravur in the Batticaloa region . |
| 7 | The fifth seeded American won the third round encounter 6–3 6–4 then raced for shelter as the rain flooded the Edgbaston Priory club . |
| 8 | In the western trenches in Kingshams Field , Buildings 1 and 2 certainly lasted into the fifth century , ultimately collapsing , to judge from an extensive rubble spread across the site , but no dating evidence was recovered . |
| 9 | Very painstaking stratigraphical work put it beyond doubt that men had been contemporary with animals now extinct , and that human history must therefore go back long before the 4004 BC computed from Genesis . |
| 10 | Falconi , swept over the island , while the Bf109Es of 7/JG 26 also made for the same location . |
| 11 | There had been no time to attempt to flee , or even to struggle ; hundreds simply died in their tracks . |
| 12 | On 16 August 1819 there occurred in Manchester the event which came to be known as the Peterloo massacre . |
| 13 | The training school in the Sardinian foreign ministry which was seriously considered at the end of the 1840s never came into existence . |
| 14 | The DoT told the House of Commons transport committee that nearly 1300 joints had been replaced between 1975 and 1982 and a further 750 still had to be replaced . |
| 15 | The value of contracts in 1986/87 only amounted to £120 million ( Stoker , 1988 , p. 186 ) . |
| 16 | But what happened in Jerusalem between 168 and 164 B.C. went beyond the ordinary internal conflicts of the Seleucid state . |
| 17 | The internal announcement of the resignation circulated December 21 also spoke of his ‘ leave of absence ’ from the company but Harris ' appointment is believed to be permanent . |
| 18 | But of the 542 places petitioning in 1792 only 283 also petitioned in 1814 — a ‘ persistence rate ’ of only 52.21 per cent . |
| 19 | The squeeze on consumption prior to 1969 now led to trade unions adopting a more militant posture in wage negotiations . |
| 20 | Although both the homologous HSV octamer and that derived from HPV 16/18 readily competed for binding of both the complexes , the sequence from the HPV 6/11 URR was unable to do so . |
| 21 | A letter to a Front soldier from a citizen of Görlitz in late June or early July 1940 undoubtedly spoke for many in stating that , following the ‘ unimaginably great ’ events which had been seen each week in the newsreels , ‘ we will never be able to thank the Führer and brave army enough for sparing us at home the horrors of war ’ , and that an ‘ immensely great ’ future awaited Germany ‘ in the construction of Europe after the final victory ’ . |
| 22 | In 1822 there came to the parish as rector , the great Walter Henry , a graduate of King 's College , Cambridge , and a Fellow of the Royal Society . |
| 23 | From the start and in the course of its development , industrial development was distinctive , not least because its rapid phase from 1870 onwards coincided with a prolonged agricultural depression in the eastern counties and a collapse of staple industries in East London . |
| 24 | After the whambamthankyouma'am of the sixties , the seventies barely existed in their own right , but were more a kind of dream time when no one wanted to admit the good times had gone , or indeed had never really been . |
| 25 | The search for survivors from the Sankichi Maru was still in progress when the Taiwanese vessel Delima 120 also got into difficulties about 1000 km ( 700 miles ) east of Auckland . |
| 26 | In fact , he laughed so loud and so often that One Over The Eight practically came to a halt . |
| 27 | Years later , even , when 617 just happened to be in my Canberra Wing at Binbrook after the war , oddly enough both Nos 617 and 9 Squadrons found themselves together in my four-squadron wing . |
| 28 | The roar of a meteorite blazing through the air in Quatermass II still had to be accomplished by scratching a thumb-nail across a microphone mesh . |
| 29 | An official decision by the authorities to switch off electricity to student dormitories at 11 p.m. led to unrest on campus . |
| 30 | Moreover , the fact that Parliament by the Act of 1976 deliberately refrained from legislating for cases such as these , where the child was born before the enactment of the Act of 1976 , does not in any way support the view that these cases should be left for future legislation . |