Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh really , I only went in there the other day , well the other week about a fortnight ago |
| 2 | I was over the moon — although this only lasted for about a year as I paid a visit with some friends to see the 1991 ‘ Sound Off Championships ’ at Wembley . |
| 3 | That situation only lasted for about a year and of course soon er the army was portrayed as the enemy , particularly by the I R A and the republican party and the republican population . |
| 4 | And so I tell you we slammed the window down and just ducked for about an hour . |
| 5 | He desperately needed at least a neutral , if not a friendly neighbour to the north . |
| 6 | It was originally a large , stout , hardy draught animal at a time when beef came mainly from plough oxen once they were no longer in prime working condition ( typical of meat production in many countries even now ) and was then developed as a triple-purpose draught , meat and milk type but it soon evolved into essentially a beef animal and in that role its influence worldwide has been immense and far-reaching . |
| 7 | It also made for quite a wet ride as the Seayak ‘ bobbed ’ downwards . |
| 8 | Yet it also represented at least a first step towards an institutional framework for dialogue between State and commoners . |
| 9 | So it is particularly refreshing to come across one company that not only recruited its company secretary and main board director when she was four months pregnant , but also waited for almost a year for her to join full time . |
| 10 | Well , my interest in allegory really began at quite a different point . |
| 11 | My interest in allegory really began at quite a different point . |
| 12 | President , delegates , the events of last October , and the coal crisis , dramatically showed at once the strength and the weakness of the trade union movement today . |
| 13 | The patient then came under both the S.M.O. and S.S.O. |
| 14 | It was a method of year-dating of civil , as distinct from religious , application first adopted by Imperial Rome and then continued in both the papal and royal chanceries of Europe during the early Middle Ages . |
| 15 | But though their name lives on in the region of Tuscany , the Etruscans actually survived for only a short period ; they were expelled from Rome by the Latins and then defeated at the battle of Aricia in 506BC . |