Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | G thereby got hold of the barley , disposed of it and absconded . |
| 2 | The SEATO Pact effectively became moribund in the wake of the American military withdrawal from Indo-China in the mid 1970s , and was not reinvigorated . |
| 3 | The bar was patented and Nelson duly became president of the Eskimo Pie Corporation . |
| 4 | The ports , such as Harfleur , at the mouth of the Seine , could develop ship-building facilities , and the control of the lower Seine effectively made Rouen into a sea port and a shipyard . |
| 5 | They point to the poster campaign it launched last September , through Ogilvy & Mather , which effectively relaunched Wisk as a mainstream colour care detergent , and the new label design as evidence of Lever 's determination to boost its sales . |
| 6 | Was not ‘ cushion ’ the term which eventually became vogue for the extra help which was thrown over the poll tax time and again in a vain attempt to douse the flames of dissent . |
| 7 | in the City of Nottingham and eventually became Chairman of the Licensing Bench . |
| 8 | Yet others were situated in , or later moved to , places which eventually became towns with a full range of central place functions . |
| 9 | The other MP nominated to the Committee , who eventually became President of the Institute , was William Tite ( 1798–1873 ) . |
| 10 | Commissioned as an administrative officer , he eventually became adjutant to the commander of the tactical air force , based at Larisa in central Greece , and made a point of being around whenever any representatives of civil suppliers appeared at headquarters to make presentations . |
| 11 | Bourgeois musical experience was largely privatized and domesticated ; working-class musical experience — formerly centred around collectively shared localities ( streets , pubs ) — shifted to framed public spaces which eventually became constituents of a national and international musical commodity market . |
| 12 | Ramsay early on made use of a drapery painter to fill in the clothes , as in the portrait of Dr Richard Mead . |
| 13 | Rather asked Hussein about the pressures on George Bush and the prospects for any negotiations . |
| 14 | But it was the same friend who eventually led Jean to the dead man 's ‘ passion wagon ’ caravan . |
| 15 | She furiously grasped hold of a clump of soggy weed and after more slipping and sliding finally managed to heave herself out . |
| 16 | After half an hour of marching towards the ever-loudening village dog , they eventually found shelter for the night . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , dear — you poor old hag ! ’ her friend murmured sardonically , grinning as she deftly caught hold of the cushion Laura had sent flying across the room towards her . |
| 18 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |
| 19 | Soon after the liberation of Poland he joined the Polish regular army as a war correspondent and eventually entered Berlin with the First Polish Infantry Division . |
| 20 | Hateley , who virtually single-handedly beat Leeds in the last round , said : ‘ We could have been 4–0 down . |
| 21 | Julian had a humbler conception of her task than the other prophetic reformers I have mentioned , who all experienced God as an absolute imperative to action and felt that they had a mission to defy the religious and secular establishment of their day . |
| 22 | Only the later nineteenth-century works are a let-down ; Bonn at obviously lacked pull with the great Impressionists and bought generally insipid work . |
| 23 | Shortly afterwards he apparently became tutor to a son or sons of Sir Thomas Hoby [ q.v. ] , of Bisham Abbey , Berkshire , whose wife Elizabeth [ q.v. ] commended him to her brother-in-law William Cecil ( later Baron Burghley , q.v. ) , whom Hayes apparently served in unknown capacities for at least twenty years . |
| 24 | More sensitive than their counterparts at the beginning of the decade had been to the technical qualities of Hollywood films , the critics of the time constantly drew attention to the gap between the aspirations and the achievements of British films . |
| 25 | After one year Charles suddenly divorced Desiderata on the grounds that she was barren and weak . |
| 26 | In a message to the State Department on 25 May John J. Muccio rightly drew attention to the unwise nature of various statements relevant to Korea made in the previous five months : |
| 27 | They lost every deposit , and so contributed £128,000 towards the election , but received almost no coverage in the national press , TV or radio in return . |
| 28 | The most active counties continued to be Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire which together provided 56% of the total number of classes and students . |
| 29 | Looking back at the crowd at the foot of the great stone double staircase , she suddenly caught sight of the familiar blonde head of her daughter and called the nursemaid , who was holding her up to get a better view of all the excitement , to bring her over . |
| 30 | But down came melancholy like a guillotine and he had to wake up before the steel cut the quivering cold sweaty flesh . |