Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two pound odd I just paid for mine . |
| 2 | The last year has taught me how little I really knew about what goes on behind the wrought-iron gates of Buckingham Palace and the red brick walls of Kensington Palace . |
| 3 | None that I ever heard of returned Mrs Fairfax smiling . |
| 4 | ‘ It was so funny everyone just fell about laughing . ’ |
| 5 | This I subsequently discovered to be false . |
| 6 | Developed through having had this magazine of my own since the age of six , and listening to the Top 30 every Tuesday only to run off instantly to the typewriter in order to compile my own personal Top 30 which totally conflicted with how the world really was . |
| 7 | Sensibly , from the point of view of the regime , Nicholas had taken the precaution of consigning the one prominent conspirator of 1825 who actually came from Siberia , Grigorii Baten'kov , to the Peter and Paul Fortress in St Petersburg . |
| 8 | But this one really appealed to me . |
| 9 | A kind and intelligent psychiatrist ( one of the few we ever saw outside the hospital ) came to talk to us about schizophrenia — the most feared mental illness of all . |
| 10 | This they eventually did at Messina — another positive augury for the future , perhaps — appointing to the post René Mayer who was , in fact , an associate of Monnet . |
| 11 | In 1985 they both moved to Porter 's house paints division , where Mr Horton is vice-president . |
| 12 | Perhaps Bidault , on a visit to the US , gave the best idea of French intentions when he said that Marshall Aid would make it possible for France ‘ to avoid the abandonment of French positions ’ and even where there were the generous intentions that the US had hoped for , one way or another they always seemed to be frustrated . |
| 13 | This he clearly achieved at the world championships in Okinawa , Japan , last year . |
| 14 | This he carefully filled from the bottle and then replaced in the greatcoat . |
| 15 | But Francie had smuggled a tiny transistor radio into the house and on this he furtively listened to Radio Eireann sometimes , when there was music . |
| 16 | This he unfavourably contrasted to recent statements by the West German Foreign Minister , Mr Hans-Dietrich Genscher , accepting the inviolability of Germany 's borders , notably the Oder-Neisse frontier with Poland . |
| 17 | This he derisively referred to as ‘ sociologism ’ and distinguished it from the true activity of sociology , the study of social action . |
| 18 | This he promptly brought into action in defence of his small brother , ran the farmer against a wall and threatened to run the fork through the aggressor . |
| 19 | He , in the , in the early nineteen-fifties he once came to , he came to Oxford , and there was a meeting at which erm all my colleagues threw at him very sophisticated objections to his philosophical position . |
| 20 | In 1779 it was the more radical of the parliamentary reformers and in 1790 it probably told against supporters of the third effort to do away with religious tests that they tried such unconventional methods . |
| 21 | A likely explanation is that , although in book 2 he again collaborated with Danchet ( nos. 1–4 ) , and worked with another eminent librettist , Fuselier ( nos. 5–6 ) , they provided him with poems whose dramatic interest is uneven . |
| 22 | In 1903 he finally returned to England . |
| 23 | It is hoped that residential care staff will continue to work closely with family members , to establish a different family network , replacing that which probably existed in the community . |
| 24 | When I saw the opportunity to strengthen my own position and lay claim to that which rightfully belonged to me , I brought you the papers , and , being the trusting fellow you are , you made no bones about signing them . |
| 25 | In defence he was steady and reliable even if , in a way , his sophisticated refined play was out of its element in the hurly-burly of 3rd Division South football ; Jimmy always appeared to be better suited to a more leisurely pace than that which usually pertained at Selhurst Park in the mid-1950s . |
| 26 | They arrived at the restaurant , were shown to a table , handed menus and started a reasonably convivial conversation either about Ken 's rearend , the radio show or about Pieces of Eight which finally closed in the autumn of 1960 . |
| 27 | In the end , I 'm not sure how much I actually learned from the two-hour , $40 course . |
| 28 | The youngest of the trio — he was a-twenty-seven-year-old ex-seminarian who had been greatly under the influence of Molloy before going to Africa — began to sing , in a terrible , faltering voice , probably the most unmelodious I ever heard from a Danuese what sounded like the first lines of ‘ O , Mighty Mountain ! ’ |
| 29 | If Eva had any regrets it was that her mother had never been able to put in words just how much she obviously meant to her , and that there had not been more time to spend with her parents over the years . |
| 30 | During 1990 and 1991 they steadily withdrew from the work of all-union bodies , including the Congress of People 's Deputies and Federation Council , and suspended contributions to the USSR budget . |