Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reid continued to leave him out and eventually sold him to Chelsea . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When the registration forms came through , she apparently mistook them for election bumf and threw them away . |
| 10 | He looked at his big , hammy hands , lying loosely on the table and suddenly doubled them into fists . |
| 11 | Why was it you only got it at places like fairs and the seaside ? |
| 12 | ‘ I only got it from Lewens for fifteen ! ’ |
| 13 | He not only met them off trains , got taxis , and frequently turned up at theatres to see how they were getting on , but would also dip into one of his baskets and present each Girl with a bar of chocolate . |
| 14 | Wyllie suddenly found himself without Brewer 's expertise , and Wyllis was incandescent with rage when a medical panel ruled Brewer out of the World Cup campaign . |
| 15 | On the second day we went out climbing again but the assessors — there was one for every two candidates — constantly posed us with problems to find out how we would deal with rescues and emergencies . |
| 16 | And we only found it by chance , you know how you go off to think oh I 'll , I 'll go and find a coffee or something , and we found this restaurant at lunch time and had a coffee there and we looked at the menu and , you know , we , we could n't believe it ! |
| 17 | The problem for the Thatcher Government is that its own diagnosis of the crisis of state authority constantly impelled it towards intervention whether in the internal affairs of trade unions , the spending priorities of local authorities , the curricula of schools and universities , or the patterns of family behaviour . |
| 18 | I do n't think a person told I do n't think a person told to apologize is n't rea really an apology so I think there must be a reason why you did n't and so told me on Sunday why you did n't . |
| 19 | I 'll not be more'n a stone 's throw from the door , so rid th'self of thoughts about taking off . |
| 20 | He came across it raiding his fruit garden , unwisely wounded it with buckshot , and was chased up a tree for his trouble . |
| 21 | She constantly pestered him with telephone calls , messages and even turned up at his home . |
| 22 | The innocent words suddenly filled me with horror : there had been a time before I was born , a time when I had not existed , a time when I lacked individual consciousness — this last being the most horrifying notion . |
| 23 | Edward Jenner was himself a keen inoculator , but he was impressed by the apparently safer prophylactic effects of the mild natural disease of cowpox ; a zoonosis often caught by milkmaids which apparently protected them from smallpox , as he demonstrated in his paper of 1798 . |
| 24 | Then Hughes , for so long dogged by the determined attentions of marker Guennady Fillimonov , suddenly shook himself into space before blasting from the edge of the box but Podshivalov reacted superbly . |
| 25 | Raider Terence Joseph , 27 , ran off , but was caught after TV 's Crime Monthly showed him on security film . |
| 26 | The thought suddenly spurred him into action . |
| 27 | In these commentaries — on Solomon 's rebuilding of the Temple , on Esras and Nehemiah , especially on Samuel — he constantly addressed himself to passages about kings . |
| 28 | If I may my Lord there is an issue that was raised in my learned friends reply er which er was a new point er and where I do take issue with him and this concerns the issue of the relevance of the directive here the , the issue relating to er whether or not the er Lloyd 's Act and the society have got any relevance in respect of the directive , his submission as I understood it , was that under article one , eight , nine the directive only addressed itself to states , to the British Government and that therefore the reliance on the directive by the society and in relation to the Lloyds Act was er a misconceived er reliance . |
| 29 | It did n't had n't got they did n't have four posts at this time , they hung the top part of the bed , literally hung it from cords wrapped round rafters . |
| 30 | He glared across the breakfast table at them , quenching the morning cheerfulness in the kitchen , and fiercely examined them at tea-time as if to see what the day had done to them . |