Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The researchers eventually stumbled on a 1979 article in a little-known medical journal , Psychiatry Research , which described the plight and eventual suicide of a 23-year-old graduate student . |
| 2 | Maxim was about to explain when the lieutenant obviously came to a snap judgment on his military value and slammed out again . |
| 3 | His progress only came to a halt when he had the misfortune to swop punches with one of the many irrepressible Cubans , the eventual gold medal winner . |
| 4 | His progress only came to a halt when he had the misfortune to swop punches with one of the many irrepressible Cubans , the eventual gold medal winner . |
| 5 | The Germans naturally excelled at a style developed by themselves ; most commonly this was a simplification of Gothic features . |
| 6 | If a mutant batch of tadpoles with cannibalistic tendencies suddenly arose in a spadefoot population , they would tend to survive much better on those occasions when the pond was quickly drying out . |
| 7 | The car eventually crashed into a bus stand , Durham Crown Court was told . |
| 8 | This new thinking eventually resulted in a further book , Principles of Pragmatics , published in the Longman Linguistic Library in 1983 . |
| 9 | But Crosby 's future only came to a head this week when he reacted angrily to claims of an approach for Crystal Palace boss Steve Coppell . |
| 10 | On other occasions a wind suddenly blew from a direction which made recording trains on the climb from Shepton Mallet impossible , or a sudden rain storm blew up at an inopportune moment . |
| 11 | The violence apparently stemmed from a campaign , stepped up in March , for the restoration of Ingushi autonomy within the borders of the former Ingush Autonomous Region . |
| 12 | Eleanor 's lips suddenly relaxed into a secretive smile . |
| 13 | The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) reported at the end of September 1989 that seasonal ozone depletion over Antarctica ( believed to be caused primarily by chlorofluorocarbons — CFCs — see p. 36785 ) was increasing at the rate of 1.5 per cent a day ; the depletion largely occurred on a seasonal basis , with the ozone being replenished during summer months . |
| 14 | The car finally came to a halt outside the house , and Jessamy looked around , a small frown drawing her brows together . |
| 15 | When the car finally came to a halt , she looked straight ahead of her , not daring to look at him . |
| 16 | These different roles played by the designs normally existed at a subconscious level , and different societies have attached more weight to one or the other . |
| 17 | The case was solved when Downey finally walked into a police station earlier this year and confessed to the killing . |
| 18 | These must be what are called hypnogogic images , the strangely potent montages which come at a mind already lapsed into a sort of sleep . |
| 19 | It was a full day later before Schmidt had been able to form a coherent sentence , though his words still came in a low , wracked whisper . |
| 20 | MALCOLM CROSBY yesterday called for a halt to the head-hunting season at Sunderland . |
| 21 | It was not difficult for Lewis to find his way to the Kemps ' home in Cherwell Lodge , the ground-floor flat on the extreme right of the three-storey building , since it was the only window in the whole street , let alone the block of flats , wherein electric light still blazed at a quarter to one that morning . |
| 22 | As one Formula One veteran once said to a newcomer : ‘ Welcome to the piranha club . |
| 23 | The fact that Gorbachev sent the old Stalinist Andrei Gromyko to perform the pinning on of the award must have been scant compensation for what Ceauşescu probably saw as a badge of his growing servitude to Moscow . |
| 24 | On the same day , the United States also entered into a Memorandum of Assurance with Israel in which it made a number of more specific undertakings directed towards preserving the security of Israel in the event of a violation of the Peace Treaty . |
| 25 | Indeed the term also doubled as a verb meaning to leap about and carouse . |
| 26 | Mr Purtill also posed for a picture with Mr Major , managing to rustle up a sheepish grin . |
| 27 | The computer industry also conformed to a common American pattern of running into anti-trust difficulties — following IBM 's overwhelmingly successful System/360 offerings of the early 1960S . |
| 28 | At roughly the same stage , Arsenal also went through a dire spell with a similar sequence of only one goal from six outings . |
| 29 | Darlington councillor David Lyonette also called for a review of the law , adding : ‘ There are too many guns in the wrong hands . ’ |
| 30 | Hence , deletion clearly led to a modification in equilibrium transcript levels in the heteroplasmic strain for genes involved in deletion . |