Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun prp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hateley , who virtually single-handedly beat Leeds in the last round , said : ‘ We could have been 4–0 down . |
| 2 | So Anne stayed at home , and only saw Diana in the evenings . |
| 3 | The British insisted that it be worked by British operators — reluctantly agreed to — and it finally entered Australia in the Northern Territories . |
| 4 | Bush nevertheless received Prunskiene in the White House on May 3 . |
| 5 | Surprisingly not : New York just pipped Florida in the visitor stakes , though only just . |
| 6 | Annie and George meanwhile kept Jonna in the forefront of their conversations with Jonadab , behaving as though the rift had never occurred . |
| 7 | The seventeen-year-old all-round sportsman , who plays his tennis at Matchpoint Bramhall tennis club Stockport , duly faced Carrara in the following day 's final with a great sense of expectation . |
| 8 | Her name was Penelope but she quickly became Penny in the factory . |
| 9 | Whoever we saw , they always said Bonjour in the friendly manner of cross-country skiers everywhere . |
| 10 | The trainer also entered Dilum in the race as a precautionary move . |
| 11 | While in Stratford she also played Jessica in The Merchant of Venice and Moth in Love 's Labours Lost . |
| 12 | Former junior internationals include Chris Allen and Rory McBride of Methody and Inst 's Jonny Curran who also represented Ireland in the lightweight four at last year 's Home Internationals . |
| 13 | Local allies , it turned out , were often reluctant to accept guidance from the USSR ; some of them ( Egypt , Iraq , the Sudan and Ethiopia ) persecuted and even executed large numbers of their domestic communist party members , and others took different views on international issues ( Iraq , for instance , openly supported Somalia in the Ogaden war ) . |
| 14 | Go on , ’ and she now stabbed Agnes in the shoulder with a none too clean finger . |
| 15 | And as the weeks passed , she often met d'Urberville in the garden and began to lose her shyness of him . |
| 16 | Someone even stopped Carl in the street the other day and congratulated him on how good the album is , so it looks like the world 's finally catching up with us . ’ |
| 17 | Someone even stopped Carl in the street the other day and congratulated him on how good the album is , so it looks like the world 's finally catching up with us . ’ |
| 18 | Whether or not third States are finally included as indirectly injured States in the terms of Draft Article 5 ( 3 ) , development of international law in this respect is crucial to an examination of the rights and obligations of third parties . |
| 19 | The orchestra began to play , an air of excitement gripped Emily and she forgot the shoemaker 's daughter , she even forgot Craig in the excitement of the occasion as some of the ladies swung like flowers on to the floor in the arms of the men . |
| 20 | Wishart frequently saw Minton in the company of his cousin Anna , the daughter of the poet Roy Campbell . |
| 21 | Armstrong could also be among the all-weather winners with the improving and well weighted Quattro in the Ascom Tele-Nova Handicap at Lingfield tomorrow . |
| 22 | Hardy undoubtedly read Virgil in the original ; yet we know that long before he taught himself Latin his remarkable mother gave him ( on his eighth birthday ) a copy of Dryden 's translation of the Aeneid . |
| 23 | The Irishman swung himself into the saddle , then followed Sharpe in the footsteps of the Highlanders . |
| 24 | There had been a time when he had been with the then desired Jenny in the back of a car on the moor at Goathland . |
| 25 | The ‘ Cats ’ stormed through the Leinster championship and then destroyed Antrim in the second half of their All Ireland semi-final . |
| 26 | She once again passed Drew in the street at about 5.10 and then saw him at the theatre at 6.30 , when he came into her dressing room to ask if his make-up was correct . |
| 27 | Eventually Manuel Pestana returned to Madeira and bought the old Atlantic Hotel where he built the Madeira Sheraton Hotel , the only privately owned Sheraton in the group . |
| 28 | Once more our rummage crews hit the jackpot with several newly arrived Klondykers in the anchorage and Reg Clarke , as a former uniformed Customs Officer , was able to re-live his earlier days as the duty free goods were ferried across in our motor boat . |
| 29 | A delegation of eight parliamentarians led by the president of the Senate , Dejean Belizaire , subsequently met Aristide in the Colombian city of Cartagena on Nov. 21-24 , but no agreement was reached . |
| 30 | Let me say straight away that I am far from being a male chauvinist ( many of my girlfriends over the years have been females ) , indeed the very first person to introduce me to canoeing was Marianne Tucker who subsequently represented England in the 1960 Olympics . |