Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night had been a glorious voyage of discovery to a new land , revealing wonders never dreamt of . |
| 2 | Against the advice of their hosts , they ventured into regions of mountain and marsh that occasioned difficulties never encountered in the well-drained chalklands of the Pays de Caux , and returned with an altered view of the country in whose service they had placed themselves . |
| 3 | The canopy shape had gone from sliding side windows to rearward-sliding bubble , allmetal wings had replaced fabric-covered ones , the elevator acquired a central cut-out , increased chord at its outer extremities and a restricted throw when it was found that disturbed air was affecting its pitch authority , and undercarriage design and powerplant options also varied between different manufacturers . |
| 4 | The electronics and publishing projects never got off the ground . |
| 5 | ‘ Willy Thorne , for example took part in a ProAm game at Alsager and insisted that one of the three charities who were to receive donations just had to be the Rainbow Trust and that meant £1,400 cheque . |
| 6 | The habit of sweetening feeds also added to the problem . |
| 7 | Since she 'd met him things that were normally buried fathoms deep seemed to be floating to the surface . |
| 8 | Those who did not follow soldier-husbands often emigrated with their parents . |
| 9 | Allan de Souza shows prints roughly collaged onto a cruciform display of found boards . |
| 10 | Negotiations about time allocations and printing materials therefore started with the central NACAB print room in November 1987 . |
| 11 | Social commentators noted that this phenomenon was not new : bright colours and rising skirts apparently went with good times whilst body concealment and drab tones accompanied depression . |
| 12 | Finance Ministers also agreed to a US-sponsored move to provide large-scale debt relief to Egypt and Poland . |
| 13 | But a great many more , both public and private were brought to their knees and many well known names eventually disappeared through acquisition or merger . |
| 14 | No charts or sailing directions then existed for the coast beyond Cabo Santa Maria : no one had ventured this way before . |
| 15 | Rich and titled passengers often travelled with several servants including a lady 's maid , butler , valet , nursery maid , footman and nanny . |
| 16 | With new forms of planning restriction limiting the amount of suburban extension that could be tacked on to existing built-up areas , housing developers increasingly looked to the surrounding rings of smaller settlements lying within commuting distance of city centres . |
| 17 | This switch to feature films inevitably led to a new preoccupation with fiction and with developing screen fictions that took up the themes and conventions of respectable literary and theatrical tastes . |
| 18 | But his greatest achievement was in the study of mathematics and logic with his paper , The Relation between the Logical Theory of Classes and the Geometrical Theory of Points ( 1890 ) , which anticipated and even extended arguments later propounded by Bertrand ( third Earl ) Russell [ q.v. ] in The Principles of Mathematics ( 1903 ) . |
| 19 | Mr Wheeler said police already went to public lavatories to detect sex offenders . |
| 20 | Traders said some futures-related buy programmes also added to the market 's gain . |
| 21 | The need to make subjective judgement of , say , age before approaching a potential respondent tends to produce ages unevenly clustered around the middle of the age ranges which must , in any case , be broad to make the technique feasible . |
| 22 | What , do people , ha have blokes here slept with her ? |
| 23 | Have blokes here slept with her ? |
| 24 | The ‘ feeble minded ’ children labelled cretins also suffered from thyroid deficiency , or , usually , from a deficiency of the iodine which is necessary for the gland to function effectively . |
| 25 | A tax of 0.6% has been withheld at source on the amount of bank deposits , term and deposit certificates etc held at 9 July 1992 . |
| 26 | A grand dismissal of the niggling demands of penny-pinchers who wanted results tomorrow came from the chief witness , John Collier , Chairman of the UKAEA and head of the newly-formed Nuclear Electric utility . |