Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One view put forward by A. G. Dickens in the mid-1960s held that because Protestantism greatly appealed to the many lay people who had been alienated by the formalistic , clerically dominated Catholicism of the later middle ages , the Protestantization of the country was achieved very quickly . |
| 2 | We obviously put in a few more details … |
| 3 | Between the wars the Salvation Army started in Kent Road , but only lasted for a few years . |
| 4 | Roman looked at her in a way that made Claudia want to curl up and die , and she was n't on the receiving end , only tarred with the same brush . |
| 5 | The Guardian and Daily Mail alone stayed in the same ownership throughout the period . |
| 6 | She only stayed for a few months , then she became unwell and had to give up the job . |
| 7 | No she only stayed for a few weeks in Summer |
| 8 | We soon came to the same decision , which was that having promised the boys we would help them , we could n't now let them down . |
| 9 | Farncombe took the lead after ten minutes , but Haslemere soon equalised through an own goal . |
| 10 | It was silent with regard to Soviet Moldavia ( which largely consisted of the former Romanian provinces of Bessarabia and North Bukovina annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 ) , but stipulated respect for existing borders [ see also p. 38306 ] . |
| 11 | Rushed along through the dark , their faces soon settled to the same blank , tranced appearance as everyone else 's . |
| 12 | Ninety six male patients admitted to four surgical wards for elective repair of inguinal hernias under general anaesthesia were interviewed in hospital on the day before surgery and asked to complete two self evaluation questionnaires : a screen for pre-existing anxiety or depressive states using the hospital anxiety and depression scale ( HADS ) , in which patients were asked to score answers based on how they generally felt over the few weeks before admission , and an assessment of their current state of anxiety ( Spielberger STAI-X1 ) . |
| 13 | The Heath government fell in 1974 and the Box largely fell at the same time . |
| 14 | The skin was discoloured and quite swollen , but the burning sensation had eased and his whole hand no longer throbbed with the same intense pain . |
| 15 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 16 | In The Origin , and already as far back as The German Ideology , Marx and Engels followed their contemporaries in believing that the history of mankind usually went through the same sequence of technological improvement . |
| 17 | It hardly fell into the same category as the calculated thuggery of the last Lions tour or the almost casual butt which recently reduced the Great Britain Rugby League team to 12 men . |
| 18 | On informal testing each child ignored a toy presented in the half-field contralateral to the removed hemisphere , but promptly reached for the same toy in the ipsilateral half-field . |
| 19 | Sunday was the first and chief day of the week , and saints ' days always fell on the same date , as did some of the major festivals such as Christmas , which was celebrated on VIII Kal Jan ( 25 December ) . |
| 20 | No species is inviolate , else the individuals would live indefinitely — a soul forever entombed in the same body ; and this is not the purpose and meaning of life . |
| 21 | In Through the Looking Glass , you will remember , the Red Queen seized Alice by the hand and dragged her , faster and faster , on a frenzied run through the countryside , but no matter how fast they ran they always stayed in the same place . |
| 22 | The aircraft Crew Chief had a routine that he followed when opening the bomb doors and he always stood in the same place ; fairly adjacent to one of the doors . |
| 23 | You had this lump of rock that you dangled from a thread and people discovered that it always pointed in the same direction , so if you were on board , a ship for the first time people were able to travel in a ship without having to hug a coast all the way across or navigate to where they could see . |
| 24 | Er , we also announced at the same time as the Alton , er , Towers acquisition that Longman had acquired Rank Training for eleven and a half million pounds . |
| 25 | He also announced in the same speech the Government 's first considered response to Strangeways ; they would introduce a new offence of prison mutiny with a maximum penalty of 10 years . |
| 26 | Falconi , swept over the island , while the Bf109Es of 7/JG 26 also made for the same location . |
| 27 | We also stopped after a few paces and turned to look back at her . |
| 28 | Most of the farm weights and unofficial weights are of the crude variety ( compared to the loom weights ) but when you add their existence to the three bronze coin weights that also came from the same field something of a picture starts to build up . |
| 29 | His gingery short cropped hair decidedly came from the former . |
| 30 | It had been held up because of the freezing of assistance to the Soviet Union ( also released on the same day — see p. 38105 ) . |