Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Refinements of surgical technique eventually culminated in the selective shunt procedures developed by Warren et al which were designed to decompress the gastro-oesophageal varices while preserving portal blood flow and liver function . |
| 2 | When painting Cornish scenes Minton had been aware of the precedent set by Christopher Wood and The Times rightly saw in The Harbour an attempt to translate a Christopher Wood theme ‘ into the tragic idiom of modern painters ’ . |
| 3 | The Guardian and Daily Mail alone stayed in the same ownership throughout the period . |
| 4 | The Leader of the Opposition apparently said in the campaign for the Langbaurgh by-election that £2.6 billion extra would be spent on education by a future Labour Government . |
| 5 | Andy merely stared in the direction of the anonymous photographer but his eyes were murderous . |
| 6 | Aymer thus stood in the midst of a ramified genealogical network relating him to many families within the French nobility . |
| 7 | Johnny Kelly turned him inside out , dizzied him , nutmegged him , played with him like a yo-yo and when Ramsey finally collapsed in the mud as Kelly cut inside him , a voice on the terraces said : ‘ Ramsey , tha'rt about as much use as a chocolate teapot . ’ |
| 8 | With the exception of one cottage , where a light still shone in the window , all the others were in total darkness . |
| 9 | After her reception in the village store , she was not keen to go back with further questions to establish that Veronica still lived in the Red House . |
| 10 | His mouth still quirked in the aftermath of his laughter , and she wished that he would move away from the top step so that she could pass him . |
| 11 | Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months . |
| 12 | Despite the need to return to a monetary economy under the liberal market conditions of NEP , by the end of 1922 over onethird of total revenue still came in the form of taxes in kind . |
| 13 | And meanwhile , a ruthless killer still lurked in the darkness . |
| 14 | The wrecked Wellington bomber still smouldered in the open field . |
| 15 | Protests about professionalization also came in the 1960s from the prominenti of Oxford English . |
| 16 | At different times Jan Werich the actor and Vladimír Holan the poet also lived in the house . |
| 17 | ( Two other candidates also stood in the first round : Mahmud Othman and Othman Abd al-Aziz . ) |
| 18 | His own critique of Lawrence leads to his climactic denunciation of his own generation when he turns himself prophet of the most orthodox sort , quoting a long passage from Ezekiel also used in The Waste Land . |
| 19 | Eddie and Nancy McNally of the Falls Club also advanced in the Mixed Pairs , beating P and R Doheny 23–13 for a Section A semi-final place where another Ulster bowler will be in opposition , Wally Taylor partnered by Nora Harford . |
| 20 | The one who had accompanied him chasing the car simply glowered in the direction it had gone , while the other one , who had n't fired a shot , writhed by the roadside , trying to clutch a leg which trailed at an unnatural angle . |
| 21 | Dr. Charles Edward Prior retired in the summer of 1900 after serving for forty-five years as medical officer to the workhouse . |
| 22 | Knowing the joy of sins forgiven David subsequently wrote in the Psalm 32 , ‘ Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven , whose sin is COVERED . ’ |
| 23 | He will also know that manufacturing investment actually rose in the third quarter of last year . |
| 24 | The issue rarely surfaced in the showery south-east until a string of droughts in the 1980s . |
| 25 | But my bad mood soon disappeared in the relaxed , carefree and friendly atmosphere that greeted me . |
| 26 | Perhaps the same E. M. Nicholson once walked in the wet down Wharfed ale , listening , like us , to tuneful April songsters singing in the rain . |
| 27 | In Robert Roberts 's farming family this seems to have been the accepted practice on both sides : later on , as a young farm servant , he went to work for an uncle where his mother 's parents still lived in the farmhouse . |
| 28 | Neither made a significant provision before 1820 , and their rivalry still persisted in the 1830s when the government began at last to assist them with grants . |
| 29 | As a result , illegitimacy and irregular marriage possibly receded in the second half of the century as working-class women sought refuge in chastity and conventional marriage . |
| 30 | Vi wished she could fire a gun and shoot down those bombers if only for what they had done to Gerry , but it was easy to be brave in this small , precious house when the sun still shone in the evening sky and a west wind blew away the stench of bombing and burning and broken bodies . |