Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the demand from industry and society at large was for better school education , the response came at first not from schools but from Youth Training Schemes for school-leavers , organized by the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 2 | The detective who found the money believed at first the notes must be forgeries . |
| 3 | The Sierra slipped to sixth place , just ahead of the Renault Clio . |
| 4 | Diana was overwhelmed by the horror spotlighted in last week 's Mirror shock issue on the African nation 's famine . |
| 5 | When the light came they mustered what was left to them , and knew without many words spoken , even when the storm subsided at last into mere mist and drizzle , that they could not advance further . |
| 6 | The roof fell in last night . ’ |
| 7 | The demonstration had at first been banned by the Moscow city soviet . |
| 8 | The pyjamas fastened at last , Ashley rose shakily to her feet . |
| 9 | The lawyer murmured at last : ‘ Let's not be hasty . |
| 10 | ‘ The boy and girl are with you , ’ the Trapper repeated like a man slow of thought , to whom the words had at last revealed their significance . |
| 11 | The telephone rang at last at 9.30 . |
| 12 | When the council re-convened on 3rd June , the arrival of the anti-treaty Nez Perce — led by Old Joseph and his son , Big Thunder , Eagle from the Light , Three Feathers , Red Owl and White Bird — had swelled the Indian ranks to 3000 . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think that 's a bad idea , ’ the DDI said at last . |
| 14 | Because it applied to all bodies everywhere , the universe had at last become a universe . |
| 15 | So the question had at last been put and answered . |
| 16 | Police stated that although the troubles appeared at first to be spontaneous , both left- and right-wing extremists , Islamic fundamentalists and drug dealers had soon moved in . |
| 17 | Blanche and Dexter knew Mills had recovered from his deep financial difficulties the year before and the accountant had at last discovered how : substantial payments had been paid into Mills ' Swiss bank account in the months leading up to his death . |
| 18 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
| 19 | The disappointment is vivid yet of the Christmas day when the postman arrived at last , hours late , and brought me only a long narrow box of crackers . |
| 20 | So the war came at last , at exactly 6.35:24 pm on January 16 , 1991 , when Peter Jennings interrupted a canned piece to announce that explosions and flashes were breaking up the Baghdad night . |
| 21 | Before I left Britain one of the best-kept secrets of the war had at last been revealed — the breaking by the Bletchley Park mathematicians of the ciphers encoded by the German Enigma machine : this priceless intelligence had enabled us to sink all the Bismarck 's supply ships , monitor the movements of Tirpitz so that attacks could be launched on her ( see page 144 ) and destroy many U-boats at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic . |
| 22 | The Magyars behaved at first as Asiatic nomads are supposed to , by ravaging across Germany . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've still got to get the girl , ’ the Leader said at last . |
| 24 | ‘ Unthinkable , ’ the General said at last . |
| 25 | After his inclusion in the side the Town rose from seventeenth place to third , where they finished the season , their highest position yet . |
| 26 | One of the most significant selling points which the Banks used during last year 's dispute was the fact that Extended Opening Hours would give rise to significant numbers of additional jobs in Banking . |
| 27 | The phone rang at last . |
| 28 | despite the fact that the invasion came at last on Friday morning . |
| 29 | The Brigadier had at last found an appreciative audience , and he and the Marshal bounced along together comfortably in the jeep with the Captain and Bacci following in a car . |
| 30 | Divided into two parts , the questionnaire asked for first reactions to both the general SVQs accredited in April , and the new Skillstart awards accredited at the same time . |