Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Grandad stuck to tea , and the occasional mug of Bovril when the weather was bad . |
| 2 | The land held in reserve in Richmondshire 's case is not just land held in reserve for existing firms to expand on , but also includes three sites which are identified in this document as being reserved for development after two thousand and one , between two thousand and one and two thousand and six . |
| 3 | This placed an increasing pressure on the exchange rate causing a loss of reserves and the exhaustion of the American loan which burst into a massive drain once convertibility came into operation in July . |
| 4 | Seconds later sunlight flashed on metal and the aircraft appeared in the skies above them . |
| 5 | Even phonology seemed worth while now , whispering the sounds of time into the very material that poets used , the vowels jealously mutating , angrily fracturing as consonant groups shifted to their conditioned cues in wild adenoidal ecstasies . |
| 6 | Fortunately help came in time on that particular day . |
| 7 | Proud until I took the tools from the display card and then pride turned to disappointment for I had expected that the tools would be scaled down versions of Dad 's but the saw was just a piece of tin stamped out — it would n't cut paper and the hammer was similarly made . |
| 8 | Then Mother went to bed for two days , and the children wondered if the world was coming to an end . |
| 9 | Neither party paused for breath or parley . |
| 10 | I 've got a bit of a conflict of interest here straightaway because the actual case that Roy is talking about is actually my brother and I at this moment have been complaining to the Lloyds Policy Unit in respect of erm this particular policy , because the company that was actually trading went into liquidation . |