Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Samuel Palmer was what eventually led to Keating 's discovery . |
| 2 | Guests will be lawful visitors to those parts of the hotel to which they have been invited , i.e. all public rooms ( lounge , reception , restaurant ) , their bedrooms , conveniences , etc. provided for guests ' use . |
| 3 | Another , this time from a lance-corporal serving on the western Front and evidently of an extreme Nazi mentality , expressly referred to Hitler 's ‘ prophecy ’ in a malevolent tirade , thanking inter alia the Stürmer for remaining true to its principles on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ and applauding the introduction of the Yellow Star now also in the western occupied territories : ‘ … |
| 4 | The cold of the ground slowly seeped through Riven 's bedroll to chill his back , and he edged closer to the fire , sick of the aches in his bones and counting out in his mind the hours before he had to go on watch . |
| 5 | Differences of opinion over Dorotheum 's long-term strategy with Alfred Karny , head of Dorotheum 's board of directors , apparently led to Ressler 's forced resignation . |
| 6 | Certainly Polydore Vergil seems to have fallen victim to his own condensed chronology when he argues that it was the events at Stony Stratford which caused Hastings to mistrust Gloucester and so led to Hastings ' opposition and execution . |
| 7 | Certainly Polydore Vergil seems to have fallen victim to his own condensed chronology when he argues that it was the events at Stony Stratford which caused Hastings to mistrust Gloucester and so led to Hastings ' opposition and execution . |
| 8 | He poured water on his handkerchief , then gently dabbed at Clare 's chin . |
| 9 | Sir Brian suddenly knelt at Athelstan 's feet and sketched the sign of the cross in the air . |
| 10 | Griffiths far instance , only came across Lewis 's power of imaginative invention and insight of which I had no conception before . |
| 11 | Sighvat was in Olaf 's service at the time , and his Vestrfararvísur ( Western Travel Verses ) name Earl Hakon , son of Earl Eric of Lade , as acting with Cnut , and speak repeatedly of money offered to Olaf 's men , while the Tøgdrápa of Thorarin Praise-Tongue , who apparently sailed with Cnut 's fleet , indicates that he went first to Denmark to assemble his ships in the Limfjord in Jutland , and then proceeded north along the Norwegian coast to Trondheim . |
| 12 | How much of Laura 's promiscuity was fact , and what only existed in Woolridge 's overactive imagination , we shall never know . |
| 13 | Azmaveth only laughed at Lucien 's perplexity . |
| 14 | So went to Andre 's and had lunch there and went on to , to a , play ball , then er , there was called , and my mother and I had |
| 15 | Two events , which more or less coincided with Geikie 's retiral , had a profound effect on the future of the Survey . |
| 16 | For no particular reason she suddenly thought of Sousan 's severe-faced school teacher . |
| 17 | The measures proposed in the first SCSE resolution seemed designed to gain popular support , and , according to a report in Le Monde of Aug. 22 , food unavailable for months suddenly appeared in Moscow 's shops during the coup . |
| 18 | The dimples she kept for emergencies suddenly appeared in Felicity 's cheeks . |
| 19 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 20 | It suddenly flashed into Jack 's mind that this must be Ho , Mr Chan 's son — the boy he had been asked to protect and whose existence he had virtually forgotten in the confusion of events . |
| 21 | An incriminating document , apparently pilfered from EPA 's files , casts the agency 's attitude toward science in a new light . |
| 22 | Accordingly , he was granted and Empire title challenge in 1931 at Leicester where he duly disposed of England 's Phil Scott in under two rounds . |
| 23 | These various schemes proved problematic , however , and little came of Coxe 's ambitions , though they were briefly the subject of government interest in 1719 , when the question arose of the English title to this part of America . |
| 24 | Leadership of the French musical renaissance soon passed to d'Indy 's new creation , the Schola Cantorum , founded in 1894 . |
| 25 | Such a page , offered to the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York , for £25,000 , finally led to James 's arrest , as the sheet was recognised by Dr Estelle Whelan of the Centre for Iranian Studies at Columbia University , to whom the Met had turned for a second opinion . |
| 26 | I was profoundly relieved when the law was relaxed in 1967 , but I think it just added to Hugh 's problems . |
| 27 | The hours burned by on the green screen , and when they finally flopped in Lucy 's living room , sipping brandy , a key turned in the lock and in came the charmingly dishevelled one and only son . |
| 28 | They finally arrived at Lizzy 's ward . |
| 29 | They demurred politely , but finally succumbed to Alan 's persuasion . |
| 30 | MPs soon heard about Palmerston 's attempt to change the design , and over forty of them , led by Elcho , called on Palmerston on 29th July , 1859 , the day after Scott 's second letter , to say that they thought Scott 's design should be adopted . |