Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The South African domestic season thus finished with Eastern Province winning the Castle Cup ( four-Day and the night series ( 45 overs ) , and Free State the Nissan Shield ( 55 overs ) , Eastern Province were the beaten finalists in the latter competition and could thus justifiably regard themselves as South Africa 's champion team . |
| 2 | ‘ Like to come wiv me next week ? ’ offered Rose , the bus slowly bringing them nearer home with each plodding step . |
| 3 | The UK Environment Secretary , Michael Howard , announced on April 30 that the target for stabilizing carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels had been brought forward from 2005 to 2000 , thereby bringing it into line with the EC position . |
| 4 | In order to do justice to the Jesus of history , one must effectively divest oneself of preconceptions — and especially of the preconceptions fostered by subsequent tradition . |
| 5 | Ken Mentle , who often made up club rules as he went along , declared that his was the casting vote and promptly blocked the appointment , incredibly naming himself as manager . |
| 6 | Reid continued to leave him out and eventually sold him to Chelsea . |
| 7 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 8 | In the end , it worked out very much better than expected , essentially because the two companies had outstanding chief executives , both of whom eventually succeeded me as chairman . |
| 9 | He had since heard nothing from Mr Rowland . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
| 11 | However , although at this stage the inner reaches of PCF life , the practical realities of daily party cultural work , were slowly revealing themselves to Nizan , his intellectual and ideological development was still very much dominated by sectarian rhetoric and abstract , idealised images of a better future destined to arise from the overthrow of capitalism . |
| 12 | After being stuck in traffic behind trailer upon trailer carrying ‘ The Doors ’ logo , I eventually found myself with director Oliver Stone watching a drunk and disorderly Morrison recording ‘ Touch Me ’ . |
| 13 | Despite the Encomiast 's tale of how Cnut 's men , searching far and wide for a suitable wife , eventually found her in Normandy , it may be , as Keynes has argued , that Emma had remained in England throughout . |
| 14 | The Backs always attracted me , even in a winter fog , and we eventually found ourselves in King 's College Chapel for what I think must have been the very first of the annual carol concerts . |
| 15 | They later intervened on his behalf when he was investigated for criminal fraud , thereby opening themselves to allegations of having accepted bribes . |
| 16 | Arnulf achieved his goal , thereby opening himself to charges of duplicity . |
| 17 | Mike Benton 's ideas are reminiscent of those of Tony Swain and Gillian Cooper-Driver who proposed that dinosaurs became extinct through their dietary requirements They suggested that the development of alkaloidal synthesis of cyanogenic glycoside precursors in the early angiosperms made them unpalatable to the dinosaurs , effectively starving them into extinction . |
| 18 | Rose shut herself into her office , grimly applying herself to routine . |
| 19 | Finally Ayatollah Khomeini had reclaimed his mantle as the most radical of the Imams by proclaiming a fatwa against Rushdie in February 1989 , effectively condemning him to death . |
| 20 | The plea or defence to this was that the notes were made jointly and severally by the defendant 's father , John Revill , and by Samuel Revill , as well as by the defendant , and that before the action the plaintiff , without the defendant 's knowledge or consent , struck out the name of Samuel Revill on the notes and wholly discharged him from liability . |
| 21 | not sending him there , rather send him to Judge |
| 22 | In Scotland as a whole and in Edinburgh in particular , working-class women and girls mostly found themselves in work that in some sense extended their domestic role : housework , laundry , sewing , while better-educated middle-class women who worked were caring for the young and the sick as teachers and nurses . |
| 23 | You need only contrast it with cricket , a complex game over- burdened by social attitudes and codes , and dependent upon specific items of equipment to make it work , to understand how accessible football must have seemed . |
| 24 | Captured in stark black and white by California photographer Ansel Adams , Yosemite looks just as good in colour so bring plenty of film . |
| 25 | To the north they had obtained the county of Maine only to lose it to William the Conqueror , Duke of Normandy . |
| 26 | Antoinette 's legs and feet twitched under the covers , would suddenly throw themselves from side to side . |
| 27 | While the shame of the public defamation felt by the typical Nazi lawyer was allegedly almost enough to drive him to suicide , reactions of astonishment , disbelief , anxiety , and criticism can be read between the lines of the responses from judges and the justice administration , and the most outspoken reaction was that the Führer had been badly misinformed and his ‘ wholly unexpected attack on justice ’ much ‘ discussed and criticized ’ . |
| 28 | That he opposed Winchelsey earlier only aligned him with popes and realists ; that his appointment to Canterbury involved both the exclusion of a saintly scholar and expedient intervention by the pope was hardly of his doing or proof of his unsuitability ; that he readily undertook to secure taxes from reluctant clergy only looks unprincipled against the background of thirteenth-century prelates who had yet to adjust to the vast needs and new methods of kings everywhere . |
| 29 | The child who 's been burned learns to fear fire and so to treat it with respect . |
| 30 | ‘ We call it that because the body only produces it at night , ’ says pioneering researcher Dr Alfred Lewy of the Oregon Health Sciences Uni-versity in America . |