Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top stylist at the salon , Jeff Goodwin , had been working on a new idea called Le Flic and together with make-up artist Julie and a new wardrobe of clothes , successfully transformed Alice with these three beautiful styles . |
| 2 | He lived in France all his life and , apart from three years spent in London ( 1857–61 ) training for a business career , only visited Britain for short painting expeditions on three other occasions in 1874 , 1881 , and 1897 . |
| 3 | The level of shareholders ' return varies according to the investment attraction of the various companies — from 8.10 per cent for highly rated Thames to 9.68 per cent for South West , hit by a series of pollution incidents . |
| 4 | The level of shareholders ' return varies according to the investment attraction of the various companies — from 8.10 per cent for highly rated Thames to 9.68 per cent for South West , hit by a series of pollution incidents . |
| 5 | I only reminded Dass about that , sir . |
| 6 | So did Nicole after that ? |
| 7 | Lloyd George received a hero 's welcome wherever he went , but then so did Churchill in 1945 , and it is impossible to tell now whether Lloyd George would have fared so well if he had had Liberals rather than Unionists at his back . |
| 8 | But in 1869 Uncle Elias , who belonged to this secret group , suddenly left America with all their papers , and so the group could not go on . |
| 9 | Which only set Nigel off more , and it was some time before he could attempt an explanation . |
| 10 | The 1924 Championship finally established Chapman as one of the most famous figures in football . |
| 11 | In his whole life Henry II never fought a battle ; not did Philip until 1214 and although that battle , at Bouvines , turned out to be the victory which crowned his career he did his best to avoid it . |
| 12 | The first of the 10 special East German Reichsbahn trains finally left Prague at 5.30 local time , almost 24 hours late , reflecting the difficulties encountered by the East Germans in clearing the tracks . |
| 13 | The USA already supplied Israel with annual military aid worth US$1,800 million as part of the total US$3,000 million aid package . |
| 14 | Liberal senators — such as Wayne Morse of Oregon , Paul Douglas of Illinois and J.William Fulbright of Arkansas — who were noted for their intellect and independence , all vigorously defended Truman against lonely critics like Robert Taft of Ohio . |
| 15 | In the 1060s and 1070s Sicily fell to the Normans , and it was they who eventually captured Palermo in 1072 . |
| 16 | In the space of two decades Germany rapidly overtook Britain in industrial output . |
| 17 | According to Craddock she still visited Marshall despite all his warnings . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's still blustering and saying he never will and he once learnt Iago in three days , but he 'll have to come round . |
| 19 | Yesterday saw Hopkinson in sad , frustrated mood , attacking the ‘ complacency ’ among many field sportsmen and bewailing the lack of support he has received over the past seven years . |
| 20 | She insisted on a cab to the conference centre where the dance was being held , and when they arrived escape came in the figure of a party agent , who quickly took Hyacinth to one side , and asked whether she would like to start the dancing . |
| 21 | He also has the rather unenviable job of being the go-between between the leadership and us , which means he has to tell us any things which ‘ are not done ’ ( for example that I ill-advisedly introduced Confucius into one of my examples ) , and also has to clear any demands we make with the leadership . |
| 22 | Eugénie always held Biarritz in special affection and it was a source of great pleasure to her when in 1880 she managed to recover the furniture from the Villa which she installed in her house in Farnborough . |
| 23 | The recent report that acetylcholine-receptor-inducing activity ( ARIA ) is associated with the product of the same gene also implicates neuronally produced GGFs in later developmental events in the peripheral nervous system , specifically the formation of the neuromuscular junction . |
| 24 | The Lost Boys also made Sutherland into one of the years less likely sex-symbols . |
| 25 | In this golden period Tank also sold Peron on nuclear ideas and brought even greater financial ruin as a result . |
| 26 | Mark , who also visited Japan in 1991 , worked in the Josiah Studio which was specially-constructed at the Tenmaya Okayama department store in November . |
| 27 | Hun Sen also visited France in late March . |
| 28 | The Palestinian movement also drew Israel onto Lebanese soil in response to guerrilla raids into Israel . |
| 29 | In early 1989 the Recruit scandal forced Takeshita from office prematurely [ see p. 36589 ] , but also implicated Abe to such an extent — it forced him to resign as LDP secretary-general — that the premiership once again eluded him . |
| 30 | Also played Anna in Self-inflicted Wounds by Tom Kempinski . |