Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Far East substantial territory had been more or less peacefully wrested from the embattled Chinese Empire . |
| 2 | In the south they were either pagan or more probably belonged to that archaic South Arabian form of Judaism which is still held by the Falashas . |
| 3 | Sports centres with excellent pitches and pools have been built but they have either been under used or more often patronized by groups who already had a high participation ratio , especially adult male car-owners . |
| 4 | But it also increased the focus on unproductive , marginal , service employment , and perhaps encouraged a pervasive , discontented nostalgia , in which the inheritance of the glorious past was either unrelated to , or else unhistorically contrasted with , the bleak , discontented present . |
| 5 | This response is either absent or very much attenuated in patients with supraconal lesions . |
| 6 | Most of the friends were too old or too physically enfeebled to be capable of offering themselves for military glory . |
| 7 | But most of the mealtime was spent with her either backing away from his leading philandering comments , or racking her brain to think of some comments or questions of her own — other than those that so easily sprang to mind , but which all centred around his employer . |
| 8 | This is the story that so nearly came to be cancelled . |
| 9 | I wanted to see her smile , hear the little chuckle that so often bubbled from her as we spoke , and just watch her move about . |
| 10 | Leith could imagine that would be the case , and , even though she knew the answer to a question that just then came to her , for clarification 's sake , she asked it just the same . |
| 11 | The blue suit that no longer went to the Curragh race meetings or the Dublin Horse Show , was his evening wear . |
| 12 | At one point , early on , this kid was counting out money and saying something like , you have n't got a choice there and if you do n't like it you can shop around , when we said , in a voice I 'd never heard before , a voice that no longer pretended to be nice , a voice that expressed all the effort of pretending to be so nice for so long . |
| 13 | Work references from a licensed dealer are of dubious value , and rarely even asked for . |
| 14 | ‘ The fact that the regime has so quickly and so completely imploded in East Germany could risk a reunification of Germany almost by default before long , ’ one diplomat said . |
| 15 | 736 and so firmly reiterated in Makanjuola v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis is by invoking the decision of the Court of Appeal in Peach v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [ 1986 ] Q.B . |
| 16 | It will be argued in this chapter that their prideful belief in the capacity to influence , so vividly expressed and so evidently vindicated in Indirect Rule , led the British on to fatal experiment in more and more attenuated forms of imperial control . |
| 17 | A splendid Arctic picture with snowy mountains , icebergs and so on had as a centre-piece a small hole in the ice with a board saying , ‘ Danger ’ . |
| 18 | Phrases like ‘ Light of the World ’ , ‘ the Sun of Righteousness that setteth nevermore ’ and so on ran through my head without ceasing , and the mere sight of the sun was sufficient greatly to intensify this manic excitement under which I was labouring . |
| 19 | The transformations effected by the second Vatican Council of 1962–5 in liturgy , sacrament , scripture , and so on led to the accelerated decline of traditional rituals such as wakes and pilgrimages to local shrines . |
| 20 | It seems Freud and perhaps even wanted to er , vent their anger on Wilson , because of his failures concerning the war and its aftermath . |
| 21 | It was revived in the exceptional circumstances of late 1016 , and perhaps also envisaged in 1035 , during the succession dispute which followed Cnut 's death , when Mercians were ranged against West Saxons . |
| 22 | It may thus be possible that binding of pou[c] to this motif is mostly directed by the POU HD and perhaps further stabilized by the POU S . |
| 23 | His own contribution was sober and only occasionally spiced with alternative wit . |
| 24 | Its unified parliament , the House of Representatives , comprised the 159 members of the North 's former legislature and the 111 from the South , plus 39 members appointed on March 24 , mainly to give representation to opposition political parties which had been prohibited in the North and only recently legalized in the South . |
| 25 | HIV may have been present for centuries in a relatively harmless form and only recently evolved into a more damaging one . |
| 26 | They made love on the cool marble floor of the terrace , and much later went to bed and slept in each other 's arms for the first time in months . |
| 27 | On 18 March 1925 a disastrous fire swept through the museum , destroying not only the carriage but also its setting : the Napoleon Room and much else disappeared in the flames . |
| 28 | They passed the mouth of Liddesdale , and soon after came to the Kirkandrews ford . |
| 29 | Comdisco got out of the risk arbitrage business and shortly thereafter went to the somewhat less receptive credit markets for $100m to boost its liquidity . |
| 30 | Tom Cannon rode his first winner in 1860 , and shortly afterwards came to the attention of the trainer , John Day of Danebury , whose daughter he later married . |