Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are , she says , around 71,000 households on council waiting lists in Tyne and Wear , Northumberland and County Durham and yet housing and homelessness rarely surfaced as an election issue . |
| 2 | Treasury Counsel announced that the Secretary of State for the Environment was now inclined to take the view that the statue was not part of the listed building , and so asked for an adjournment . |
| 3 | Even so , I am teetering on the brink of spending £300 to replace the turntable I foolishly ditched as an anachronism a few months ago . |
| 4 | She only changed from an ultra-leftist to an ultra-rightist . |
| 5 | He had most of the presents and all the adults to himself , and it only came to an end for him when he was very sick late in the morning , but whether from too much excitement or too many sweets , nobody could tell . |
| 6 | The miners ' action , based on demands for higher wages , better conditions and changes in the national political leadership , only came to an end on May 10 when a decree was issued transferring the control of the mines in the Russian Federation to the RFSFR government [ see p. 38204 ] . |
| 7 | In the 1920s America had witnessed some of the problems of the modern world that was emerging after the First World War ; the confusions and uncertainties that revealed themselves became more acute as prosperity suddenly came to an end in 1929 . |
| 8 | All these activities suddenly came to an end when Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists after the USSR had tried to take over the KMT . |
| 9 | The unsecured creditors therefore sued Salomon personally for the debts which were owed by the company to them , alleging that the company merely acted as an agent or a ‘ front ’ for Salomon himself . |
| 10 | In 1642–3 he apparently served as an intelligence officer under the Long Parliament 's committee of safety . |
| 11 | Maria shivered and , moving closer to Luke to make room for the couple , she touched his wrist lightly with her fingers , unsure if the impulse to do so sprang from an urge to seek reassurance , or to give it . |
| 12 | I pretended to be very foreign , ashamed to hear my country so misrepresented by an Englishman . |
| 13 | Perhaps Lucas gave one too many hostages to fortune when he jocularly confessed in an interview , ‘ In economics , you can get a book out written in English like Harberler 's Prosperity and Depression without being able to read it . |
| 14 | It also unhappily coincided with an announcement from Downing Street that German Chancellor Dr Helmut Kohl will fly to Britain next Wednesday for an Anglo-German summit in advance of December 's Edinburgh summit . |
| 15 | The Bermuda talks not only resulted in an agreement for air transportation between the two most important civil aviation powers , but provided the pattern by which all other bilateral agreements on civil aviation were arranged . |
| 16 | Aristos of Salamis in Cyprus , who probably lived in the middle of the third century B.C. , is said by Arrian ( 7.15.5 ) to have been one of the two historians who not only spoke of an embassy of the Romans to Alexander the Great , but made Alexander prophesy the future greatness of Rome , so impressed was he by the envoys . |
| 17 | Dad was fond of whisky , but normally only drank on an evening when work was done . |
| 18 | as if to make this quite clear , the other charity guest that night was Vicky , a career spinster with beefy-jerky skin and a mouth as tensely muscled as an anus . |
| 19 | The long sermon eventually came to an end and shortly afterwards the young couple left the chapel as man and wife , to the applause of those who had witnessed the ceremony . |
| 20 | If we broaden it to mean simply ‘ cleverness ’ then obviously there can be several other explanations , mostly elucidated by an understanding of general intelligence and the way in which , even in the absence of ‘ psychotic ’ modes of thought , that facilitates high achievement . |
| 21 | I just shouted on an impulse and was very sorry later . ’ |
| 22 | It has sometimes been suggested that if you feel easily intimidated by an interviewer , and therefore are paralysed by nerves , you should imagine him ? her in a ludicrous situation , such as sitting in the Albert Hall with no clothes on . |
| 23 | The original alliance between Guntram and his nephew thus came to an end . |
| 24 | The liberal interlude , as they call it , where laws such as those over obscene publications were allowed to lie fallow , soon came to an end . |
| 25 | Shall we dance some more ? ’ he asked as the record finally came to an end . |
| 26 | When the parade finally came to an end , Sergeant-Major Philpott congratulated them all and before dismissing the parade told the troops they could take the rest of the day off , but they must return to barracks and be tucked up in bed before midnight . |
| 27 | Leeds went ahead in the second half with a goal by Wallace but their period of domination shortly came to an end and Everton pressed hard before Cottee got the equaliser . |
| 28 | We finally arrived at an event of which the adult Sylvia had no recollection whatsoever , but which to the baby must have been dramatically traumatic . |
| 29 | This is a policy intention that has been attributed to Toby Weaver , and which ( as Sir Toby ) he largely confirmed in an article in 1982 . |
| 30 | For example , I just returned from an exhibition and wrote a 6,000 word report in one burst in my hotel room . |