Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Sanders had been a Whip and a specialist in franchise matters before the war , so his return to Westminster gave an added impetus to the party campaign against the Bill ; he became a sort of unofficial party Whip against a government that the party supported , cooperated closely with George Younger , by this time Party Chairman , and eventually became deputy chairman of the party himself in 1918 .
2 But fortunately , you know , we , we only got tail end of it , a bit of sleet .
3 Quietly sipping champagne in a corner of the large marquee , Laura was just chiding herself for having over-reacted in such a feeble , juvenile way towards a man who could n't possibly be interested in her , when she looked up — and suddenly found Ross standing in front of her !
4 S1 and S2 splice sites : asterisks , cAMP- and calmodulin-dependent phosphorylation sites : arrows , cAMP-dependent phosphorylation sites ; arrowhead , highly conserved TXCFICG motif in the free C-terminal domain .
5 Encouragement of " unofficial movements " only strengthened TUC hostility to the Communists and this was , of course , reflected at Labour Party conferences and on the Labour National Executive , both of which were dominated by full-time union officials .
6 There were significant differences , for the factory system not only took child labour outside of the home , it placed it in an inferior overall environment .
7 He suddenly saw Annabel passing in the street outside .
8 As far as the family members were concerned normally those with off-farm jobs only did farm work on a seasonal basis .
9 One of them was certainly Kenneth Baker , glossy , sleek and cheerful ; behind him plodded his detective , a literate and unhappy member of the Special Branch who much preferred Brighton rock to Brighton beach , especially at such a late hour .
10 Not only had £250,000 worth of equipment fallen off the back of a submarine , but the torpedo firing system and the periscope were out of commission as well !
11 ‘ Unfortunately , the ceiling we are working on suffered worm attack over the years and was restored in the 1940s using a wax resin , which turned it brown , and cellulose repairs , which shrank , creating further problems .
12 John Collins ( Collen ) , who already owned Socknersh furnace in Burwash , had £28 in moveables .
13 Major expansions took place over the next decade and in 1949 the factory started making staple fibre , which soon overtook filament yarn as the principal rayon product .
14 I just found Armstrong heading towards Lucy Scarrott .
15 In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements .
16 After five days , an ERCP elsewhere showed bile leakage from the cystic duct stump and a small endoscopic sphincterotomy was performed , followed by stent insertion .
17 In applying that how that they did n't implement land reform because it was n't viable but if erm another way of looking at it is that how the Communist Party no longer saw land reform as the best way , means of achieving greater
18 He no longer saw Benny standing before him , but a dark-skinned woman , whom he barely recognized after such a long time .
19 Thus wrote George Sand in critical vein .
20 The Japanese introduced them anyway and thereupon gained market dominance through the much higher quality achieved .
21 always got chewing gum on me
22 The centre manager , Susan Nicol , yesterday described Cameron Toll as a ‘ classy shopping centre ’ .
23 A LITTLE more light has come into the lives of children at a Romanian hospital with the arrival of a BNFL generator which once provided back-up power for Capenhurst 's E21 centrifuge plant .
24 BARNSLEY centre-back and skipper Mark Smith yesterday joined Notts County for £70,000 .
25 THE Duke of Westminster — the country 's richest man — yesterday blamed village poverty for the soaring suicide rate among farmers .
26 Roxburgh and Craig Brown , his assistant , who once sent Ferguson home from an under-21 squad gathering because of a refusal to toe the line over uniform , remarked on the absence of unsightly bicycle shorts and socks rolled down to his ankles against the world champions .
27 BOWLS players yesterday accused Darlington Council of wasting its money on a new bowls hut .
28 As his family began to grow , money was hard to come by so he became a clerk for his family and John cannily gave dressmaking work to his new daughter-in-law to help them survive whilst getting good value for money for himself .
29 A MAN who was attacked by a gang of thugs wielding iron bars and baseball bats in Glasgow city centre at the weekend yesterday left Stobhill Hospital after undergoing an operation to a serious facial wound .
30 For 12 years from 1962 he successfully fed Edgar Hoover at the FBI a mixture of tantalising bits of fact and rubbish , including false information about Russia 's space-rocket programme which led the Americans to think they were ahead of the Russians .
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