Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tears that were burning at the back of her eyes began to fall as soon as she entered her room , and , flinging herself on the bed , she gave way to helpless misery . |
| 2 | ‘ Her eyes began to roll and then the pupils disappeared upward , ’ he later told his superiors . |
| 3 | Earlier marriage meant a great increase in teenage births in the 1960s , up to the time when average age at marriage increased ( after 1972 ) , when legitimate births to teenagers began to fall as well . |
| 4 | No. 1–20 passed into the hands of London Transport and for the next few months continued to work as before . |
| 5 | This is reckoned to be the largest exercise of its type since the reforms were put forward , blood pressure started to rise , nostrils began to flare and so on . |
| 6 | Authoritarian populism refers to the ways in which successive Thatcher governments managed to harness and actively use a wide range of popular discontents to form a regime which relied considerably on heavy-handed , Victorian morality and even increased coercion . |
| 7 | Then the shanty-towns began to thicken till suspiciously flimsy concrete blocks announced La Paz which sat cradled deep in the mountains , a crush of modest skyscrapers and stone churches , glowing red in the late sunshine . |
| 8 | I stuck it till my teeth began to scream and then I ducked out of the line-up and no one noticed I 'd gone . |
| 9 | The eggs began to hatch after about seven days , and the transparent fry were about 2mm long . |
| 10 | The needles began to fall and gradually families stopped coming . |
| 11 | It was by then too late to make for the safety of the mountains , and the scattered groups of jeeps had to hide as best they could at the foot of the escarpment . |
| 12 | Catholicism , for centuries , allied itself with conservative forces opposed to progress but now that elements within the church have come out in favour of change , they appear to be opting for a more socialist , rather than capitalist , line . |
| 13 | Far from lending their weight to agitation for political realignment , Labour 's leaders organized to resist and ultimately expel those who persisted in advocating it . |
| 14 | The location of factories was changed so that they were situated near coal ; more intensive exploitation of coal deposits and iron ore meant that either , as in the Black Country , the little villages began to merge and quite large areas of land were enveloped and spoilt , or that , as in the case of Manchester , a factory town emerged . |
| 15 | When the motion was carried , bottles and fists began to fly and unfortunately Mr Bence was ejected when the police had to be called . |
| 16 | 9% of physicians refused to participate and only 322 of the 405 included did take part . |
| 17 | The conference in 1968 on the transmission of schizophrenia , reported by Rosenthal and Kety , brought together researchers from each camp , and is probably the time at which all sides came to agree that both genetic and environmental factors must be implicated in some way . |
| 18 | Then East German police began to arrive and shortly afterwards they burst into the tunnel . |
| 19 | He was concerned with the sale and exchange of fiefs and the preservation of the comital domain : there is some evidence that , like the Recognicionesfeodorum of 1273–5 in Gascony , measures intended to clarify and even reform the feudal structure of the comté were initiated under Edward I. In a letter dated 5 June 1285 Edward and Eleanor confirmed a grant by Gerard d'Abbeville , lord of Mons-Bouberc , in which he assigned to her the payment of an annual rent on his property at Abbeville . |
| 20 | But whatever the degree of manipulation involved in specific instances , it is clearly possible in principle for genuine popular consent and active support to be given to a dictatorship or to an authoritarian regime , or to specific measures intended to restrict or even destroy democracy . |
| 21 | Follow up was uneventful ; CT scans continued to improve until finally , four years later , the aspect of the oesophageal wall was completely normal . |
| 22 | Some fell and were dragged on by their comrades , others had to crawl as best they could , their heads barely emerging from the puffs of dust , across the open space between the Cutcherry and the churchyard wall . |
| 23 | For bishops , then for presbyters , finally for deacons , Western churches came to expect and ultimately to require celibacy ( though the canonical compulsion was not seriously enforced until medieval times and even thereafter in parts of Europe , like Southern Germany or Wales , it was common for village priests to have a consort and a family , with the support of their flock and the connivance of their bishop who derived income from the annual fee or tax to allow the arrangement ) . |
| 24 | Soon after Morro Chico the plains began to undulate and then , in the distance , we spied the mountains , the southern Andes . |