Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relationship between Government educationists and villagers was a political one , and created the seeds of resentment and conflict that eventually spilled over in 1979 with the overthrow of the Shah . |
| 2 | They gamely fought back to 27-20 with a Rob Myler try 10 minutes from time . |
| 3 | There was n't nothing wrong with it — it was just a little bashed up on one end , that 's all . |
| 4 | I am speaking now of its Belgrade side , of the old men in the Academy who wished to complete Serb history because it seemed to them that it had not been properly completed back in 1918 . |
| 5 | Some redistribution had occurred between 1938 and 1949 , but if one ignores the top 1 per cent of income earners , there had been little change up to 1979 . |
| 6 | Daily food reintroductions were successfully carried out in 64 patients with subsequent exclusion of suspect foods . |
| 7 | The needle moves to its usual place but does not stay there ; it slowly drops back to zero . |
| 8 | Moxon was eventually caught behind for 80 off Allan Warner . |
| 9 | The Area successfully tendered for another section of the M74 ( Elvanfoot ) which will be mostly carried out in 1993 . |
| 10 | Last summer Berlin 's streets suddenly became home to thousands of Romanian and Bulgarian refugees , many of them gypsies , who took advantage of easy entry into soon-to-disappear East Germany to gain access to the West . |
| 11 | In the 18th and 19th centuries , they defended their great overseas empire against pirates , using ships large enough to carry up to 80 cannon . |
| 12 | The number plate 's only hanging on by one screw . |
| 13 | We were a group of young people who all lived locally in one of the poorest areas on the outskirts of San Salvador . |
| 14 | Seeing Alice 's commenting face , Muriel said swiftly , " But he only got back at three this morning , and those Channel boats … |
| 15 | So begins the story of Ragged Dick , or Street Life in New York , Horatio Alger 's first book — the first of 135 tales written in the late 1800s that together sold close to 20 million copies . |
| 16 | ‘ I reckon , with what you 've asked for , there wo n't be much change out of four hundred . ’ |
| 17 | Cos he , he , well he said she only lived there for two months . |
| 18 | Anil Kumble took four of the seven wickets to fall today and England could only quibble with one of them — when Graeme Hick looked to have been wrongly given out for 47 , caught off bat-and-pad at short leg . |
| 19 | Luckily Mike Farquharson who had only come offshore for two days and ended up staying a week , volunteered to cover until my colleague Jim Gibb arrived . ’ |
| 20 | Although stool collection in their study was only carried out for 24–48 hours , it was done at home . |
| 21 | musicians can only count up to four . |
| 22 | And he only found out from one of his operatives who had seen Bernard at Beirut Airport last night . ’ |
| 23 | The flagstones were slippery and so hollowed out by three centuries of passing feet that along some of the walkways the puddles had coalesced into shallow canals . |
| 24 | Had she herself perhaps dropped off at one point ? |
| 25 | It seems to err in moving the death of Archbishop Lyfing to 1019 ( C and E together speak strongly for 1020 ) , but D adds that his other name was Ælfstan and that he was very firm in counsel whether in matters of church or state . |
| 26 | However even with nine representatives of British industry on the working party , the report only came up with two specific problems . |
| 27 | Sally Dade trundled backwards and forwards in and out of the kitchen carrying table linen , candlesticks , silver and cut-glassware in a bath of sweat and giggles , while Mrs Stocks , who usually only came once in five weeks for an orgy of washing , wept silently into the pan of onions she was skinning . |
| 28 | These tracks are also extendible and can be purchased in two diameters , 25mm ( 1in ) and 35mm ( 1 ⅜in ) and span up to 609cm ( 20ft ) although some of the narrower types only span up to 381 cm ( 12ft 6in ) . |
| 29 | things like that , and we also , I think this year we ought to send Sid one because he came up with ten litres of five each of them boxes so came up with ten litres of wine . |
| 30 | So he goes out there and they all turn round and say , stuff you , I 'm not coming in to clean up for four pound and hour which again equates to six pound an hour . |