Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top stylist at the salon , Jeff Goodwin , had been working on a new idea called Le Flic and together with make-up artist Julie and a new wardrobe of clothes , successfully transformed Alice with these three beautiful styles . |
| 2 | He lived in France all his life and , apart from three years spent in London ( 1857–61 ) training for a business career , only visited Britain for short painting expeditions on three other occasions in 1874 , 1881 , and 1897 . |
| 3 | The level of shareholders ' return varies according to the investment attraction of the various companies — from 8.10 per cent for highly rated Thames to 9.68 per cent for South West , hit by a series of pollution incidents . |
| 4 | The level of shareholders ' return varies according to the investment attraction of the various companies — from 8.10 per cent for highly rated Thames to 9.68 per cent for South West , hit by a series of pollution incidents . |
| 5 | The Great Glen not only divides Scotland into two . |
| 6 | General Hawley had only reached Edinburgh on 6 January , and having built up his strength , wrote optimistically of ‘ driving the rascally scum out of Stirling ’ . |
| 7 | Melissa was about to retort that as she had only known Bonard for three days he could hardly be described as a friend of hers , when a surprised , ‘ Well , what do you know ? ’ from Jack made them both glance round . |
| 8 | By the time I am back in the tent I am on the borderline , cold enough to wake Tony with disjointed movements . |
| 9 | I only reminded Dass about that , sir . |
| 10 | They now need only to beat Finland on 15 November to be sure of their place in Italy . |
| 11 | So did Nicole after that ? |
| 12 | Lloyd George received a hero 's welcome wherever he went , but then so did Churchill in 1945 , and it is impossible to tell now whether Lloyd George would have fared so well if he had had Liberals rather than Unionists at his back . |
| 13 | But in 1869 Uncle Elias , who belonged to this secret group , suddenly left America with all their papers , and so the group could not go on . |
| 14 | ‘ But surely you would do better to confront Theda with this and demand the truth from her ? ’ |
| 15 | You may only activate DCs in this state . |
| 16 | Which only set Nigel off more , and it was some time before he could attempt an explanation . |
| 17 | He had finally hated Nancy on that day . |
| 18 | Ojomoh , by now the South West England Under-21 decathlon champion , developed into a formidable rugby forward and had just joined Bath in 1989 when a letter from the Home Office threatened to wreck his life . |
| 19 | Remarkably , a record of little more than mediocrity has already lifted Holyfield within one or two fights of eclipsing every man who 's ever laced on a glove in terms of financial reward . |
| 20 | It 's only just launched the Sigma but is already pressing Japan for more volume , and pretty soon will have the new-generation Shoguns . |
| 21 | It appeared that they had already approached Boeing on this matter and had tried to induce another key employee to join them . |
| 22 | The two may soon follow Lithuania into direct conflict with Moscow . |
| 23 | Beaucens , which is almost exactly facing Saint-Savin on this eastern slope , though at a lesser altitude , has the ideally romantic ruins of an old towered castle plus keep , where the local chieftains , the viscounts of Lavedan , lived in the days of their prosperity . |
| 24 | And what if Mr Ashdown gets his way : a coalition government later this month which introduces electoral reform and thus commits Britain to more coalition governments for the indefinite future ? |
| 25 | The 1924 Championship finally established Chapman as one of the most famous figures in football . |
| 26 | Many of us have already served JS for ten years , with many more , we hope , to come . |
| 27 | With West Indies on 147 for 2 and Richards and Richardson in full flow , the game had West Indies ' name on it ; Richards , with 51 from as many balls , had already struck Hemmings for two sixes , but now the Notts man flighted in a superb ball that deceived him completely and took his off-stump . |
| 28 | Without discounting the possibility that sources may yet be found in the mountains of China , present indications are that jade was already reaching China in Neolithic times by the route followed during the Bronze Age and down to the time of Sir Aurel Stein 's travels in inner Asia at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 29 | 10.7 The most exhilarating race came in the 15 years class as the Robinson twins of Coleraine battled out a nailbiting finish with Louise just pipping Emma by 0.05 seconds . |
| 30 | The sudden blindness was a result of Batten disease , a rare , inherited disorder of the nervous system that had already left Christopher with great difficulty in speaking . |