Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily they hit on a nice policewoman who more or less had to throw the teacher out , she was so insistent and heavy . |
| 2 | At the beginning of the final session , 14 September 1965 , Pope Paul entered the basilica with little of the pomp that hitherto had surrounded the papacy . |
| 3 | For just as he had begun to survey the picture from a wholly different angle , just as he thought he espied a gap in the clouds that hitherto had masked the shafts of sunlight the switchboard-operator dashed any hope of such a breakthrough with the simple statement that she 'd known Theodore Kemp very well indeed . |
| 4 | What if a mutant gene arose that just happened to have an effect , not upon something obvious like eye colour or curliness of hair , but upon meiosis itself ? |
| 5 | The rest 's history , but he now more than ever wanted to win the British Open . |
| 6 | But the Hilder revealed itself , running down like a tinsel thread , crossed at one point by stepping stones , at another by the massive stone pillars that once had supported an aqueduct bringing water to the buildings of the Goughdale Mine . |
| 7 | He was the manliest fellow that ever tried to pull an effete society together . |
| 8 | The first mill powered was the one at Coberley which still survives , although now converted to form a sizeable and elegant dwelling . |
| 9 | All that day she thought about his words , considered them , agonised over them , tried to justify her behaviour that now seemed to bear no justification at all . |
| 10 | The apparatus that emerged from the period of constitutional ferment that now ensued featured an elected national assembly ( Majles ) as before ; a Revolutionary Council composed of senior clerics and some lay figures involved in the Shah 's overthrow ; a president of the republic ; and a Council of Guardians , whose task was to pronounce upon the Islamic qualities of any candidate for office and on any proposed course of action . |
| 11 | Also at Metaltronix , I was toying with the lighted logo idea , and that really seemed to suit the '50s logo image — the old ones used to light up when you hit the switch , too . |
| 12 | Their shells had been passing over our positions from time to time all day , with a loud rush that sometimes appeared to shake the trees . |
| 13 | Commentary of this kind is usually very carefully and skilfully scripted to match the pictures it accompanies . |
| 14 | I squeezed into a minute dining-room , where there were no TV sets and nervously tried to join a group of people . |
| 15 | LC were enriched from BALB/c TE-EC ( ref. 22 ) , stained with M5/114.15.12 ( anti-I-A d and anti-I-E d , ATCC ) and FITC-goat ( Fab' ) 2 anti-rat IgG ( TAGO ) and additionally purified using a BDIS Facstar Plus flow cytometer . |
| 16 | There was so much untidy milling about , however , that in the confines of the tiny space they found it hard to organize themselves and eventually seemed to abandon the attempt . |
| 17 | I kept them in the shed and eventually had to put the bikes outside under a tarpaulin when the collection got too large . |
| 18 | He was also jaundiced and so had to wear a hood to protect his eyes and lie naked under a constant bright light . |
| 19 | This was why they had n't caught on to the idea of the ground being curved , not flat — and so had to invent an imaginary force to explain what was going on . |
| 20 | They correctly assumed that the viral DNA had been inserted into the DNA of a normal gene involved in limb development and so had caused a mutation . |
| 21 | In its heyday , the company had filled its own site with slag and so had built a bridge over the road and railway so it could shunt more slag into the neighbouring field . |
| 22 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 23 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 24 | The anniversaries , called ‘ birthdays ’ , of the martyrs were carefully remembered , and so came to create the earliest church calendars ( so that the historian can know on what day of what month a martyr died , but not necessarily in what year , that being of no liturgical significance ) . |
| 25 | At first the party leaders resisted such demands as being likely to destroy the party truce and so tried to avoid the public discussion of . |
| 26 | They must have felt the need for a farmer 's almanac and so started to keep a tally of days , which they recorded with special symbols . |
| 27 | A red lens in ormolu casing was clamped over his left eye , and perhaps had replaced the original jelly organ . |
| 28 | He should have told Cottee to go and do his talking on the park and perhaps tried to change the team plan to assist his strike-force ( if that 's the right word ) . |
| 29 | I was gone for about three hours : scrambling through hedges ; rummaging in undergrowth ; wrestling with tangled nets ; and throwing into a box the indignant ferrets , who after all had done all the work and only wanted to wring the rabbits ' necks . |
| 30 | Maha tried to join them but was cast out and good-humouredly began to push the loaded craft into the water . |