Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Society had its early beginnings in informal meetings and discussion groups , and became properly institutionalized in the 1660s , shortly before receiving Charters from Charles II . |
| 2 | After a short pause to watch us , she passed on surrounded by the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset and other local dignitaries . |
| 3 | Further anecdotes on the fame of Champagne wines in the fourteenth century are told by Max Sutaine in his Essai sur l'histoire des vins de la Champagne ( 1845 ) ; in particular he relates how , when the German king Wenceslas arrived in Reims in 1397 to discuss with Charles VI the division within the church over the popes of Avignon ( a subject Henry Vizetelly describes in A History of Champagne ( 1882 ) as ‘ very fit for a drunkard and a madman to put their heads together about ’ ) he became so intoxicated on the local wines that he signed all the documents before him , departing without knowing what he had signed . |
| 4 | The house they lived in belonged to a German lady , a Miss Wacker , who had been home in her own country when war broke out and was unable to return . |
| 5 | The gentleness and kindness which they preached as the very foundation of its teaching , and as insisted on by Jesus Christ himself , now stands starkly contrasted with the history of cruelty and violence perpetrated over the centuries in the name of Christianity . |
| 6 | Dust still swirled above the pile of stone and rubble on the floor below it , creating a hazy curtain behind which red and orange flames danced and writhed like living things . |
| 7 | It has the effect of increasing the surface area of a solution , thus increasing its speed of activity , and assisting in the total capability of a solution to suspend dirt much of it ending up trapped in the foam . |
| 8 | The uncertainty which the food shortage created also led to the hoarding of food by those fortunate enough to be able to purchase it . |
| 9 | City Hall has clung to its paternalist traditions — which go far beyond the municipal norm in America — and has wound up enmeshed in the social problems of a city of 7.3m people in constant turmoil . |
| 10 | It was at St John 's College , Cambridge , which he entered in the summer of 1784 that matters really came to a head , however . |
| 11 | Professor Andrew Greeley extended this by drawing attention to the special sensitivity of the sufferers , by which they are easily hurt , which he found often resulted from an unhappy childhood . |
| 12 | ERNEST LEE faces a fine and possible suspension this weekend after becoming unwittingly enmeshed in the red tape which is also likely to bring punishment on Derby Rams . |
| 13 | The way in which Germanisation was carried out gave to the newly released serfs , the put-upon peasantry , the tiny Polish middle class which felt itself to be discriminated against , and the ambitious and inflexible Polish nobility a rallying point — probably their only rallying point . |
| 14 | In private it would seem that he was becoming increasingly fixated on the idea of a Third World War . |
| 15 | The sacred tree cult mentioned earlier led to the building of enclosure walls round individual trees or groups of trees thought to have been visited by deities . |
| 16 | The United defence was caught flat footed by the free kick and Cross was simply too strong ; too determined to be stopped . |
| 17 | well it got just eased of a little bit and I thought oh well I 'd make it , so I hopped up to get me erm pension erm and I just got down here when it started again and I came around the front from there and I came around the front I was soaking |
| 18 | The sound of a typewriter rattling away came from the little office and Gerald said : ‘ Gina — catching up on the correspondence . |
| 19 | Large figure-of-eight shields were depicted on the walls of the East Wing of the Labyrinth , possibly to indicate that the building was under divine protection ; the dappled hides of which the shields were made presumably came from the bull , the sacred beast , and this may have given them additional prophylactic value . |
| 20 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 21 | The number of kin living together rose during the early industrial period ( up to the middle of the nineteenth century ) and remained fairly constant thereafter . |
| 22 | However , the group should not be too large as this can be threatening , and people may not feel sufficiently relaxed in a large group to make a contribution . |
| 23 | A door at the end of the hall opened , and Arkhina came in attended by a serving woman . |
| 24 | He had scarcely settled to work when his stepmother came in followed by a sad-eyed little King Charles spaniel who immediately began exploring the corners of the room . |
| 25 | It 's also ironic , I guess , that as our hired mini-bus travels through Harlem , the Belfast-bred trio should feel so intimidated by the possibility of violence . |
| 26 | Tess generously tried for the last time to interest Angel in the other dairymaids . |
| 27 | The impressive Cole 's Tump , which Watkins photographed prominently silhouetted against the background of the Welsh mountains , may not survive the end of the century . |
| 28 | MANCHESTER UNITED yesterday settled into an uneasy peace after a face-saving operation by which Martin Edwards and Michael Knighton mutually agreed to tear up the contract that would have sold the club to Knighton . |
| 29 | As early leader Diamond Cut quickly threw in the towel three out , Sweet Duke and Baydon Star went clear . |
| 30 | In both of these cases our body clock is wrongly timed for our life-style and so it does not cool us down and make us feel more fatigued in the hours just before bedtime . |