Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Narrowly escaping the hostile intentions of the awakened populace , they eventually bore Mildred into Canterbury amid great rejoicing . |
| 2 | Vaughan eventually found Tyndale in Antwerp and had several talks with him in a meadow outside the city walls . |
| 3 | As the tsars slowly transformed Ukraine from ally into colony , later generations of Ukrainians came to agree with their national poet 's assessment of him as ‘ the unwise son ’ . |
| 4 | Record-breaking , highly modified Healey at Bonneville , 1954 |
| 5 | The clash they made on the stones below jarred Harry from head to heels , and for a moment shook the intensity of his concentration . |
| 6 | At seven a.m. the following morning , contemplating newspaper headlines which screamed ‘ The Filth and the Fury ’ , and with the clamour of shareholders ringing in his ears , Leslie Hill personally telephoned Branson at home with a simple request , ‘ Can we talk ? ’ |
| 7 | But the beginning of an Anglo-American dialogue was stopped short when the Egyptians suddenly pressed Dulles in July for an answer , yes or no , on the matter of financial aid for the dam . |
| 8 | Hearing that Balsley was not expected to live , Chapman literally scoured France for oranges . |
| 9 | Before the archbishop left England for Rome , he apparently denounced Calandrini to James I as a dangerous Puritan . |
| 10 | But it only reminded Shelley of Miguelito , and she turned away , her anger rising again . |
| 11 | ’ Schisgal obviously had Dustin in mind when he wrote this . |
| 12 | So wrote Llewelyn from Aber ; and between the lines they read plainly that though he might still be arguing for peace he had ceased to believe in it or greatly to desire it . |
| 13 | The courtyard design of Linlithgow was completed under his inspiration ; it was this architectural gem of a palace which so impressed Mary of Guise , whose admiration was by no means merely wifely tact . |
| 14 | Continue under the bypass and turn right signposted Eynsham into Eynsham Road . |
| 15 | Boniface made claims which were so large and so tactless as to produce enemies like dragon 's teeth , and the French king 's own ambitions eventually drove Boniface into Edward 's camp . |
| 16 | I just asked Potter for leave . |
| 17 | The Train brothers were running 4th in C2 but 200m from the end they turned on the power and comfortably passed Cain/Chubaty of Canada . |
| 18 | Remember that it took New Zealand four attempts before they finally beat Wales in Cardiff , in 1963 ( they won in Swansea in 1924 ) . |
| 19 | After a second operation in January 1945 he nevertheless visited Washington in connection with the Far Eastern war and , although dying , he wrote a scientific paper for the sixtieth-birthday tribute to Niels Bohr . |
| 20 | Having left Sydney in April , he finally hit London in September , and moved into a flat in his sister 's house in Clarendon Road off Holland Park . |
| 21 | Faith has to return to work ; she had been away for almost two and a half months , but Continental Airlines generously sent Tim to Kupang to see if he could help . |
| 22 | Schlick made contact with Wittgenstein and then soon introduced Waismann to Wittgenstein , assigning him the task of gathering and expounding Wittgenstein 's ideas . |
| 23 | So , aged twenty , I finally left Kerry for London to begin my transformation into a man . |
| 24 | The mother , notwithstanding what she had previously said about not taking the child out of the jurisdiction without an order of the court , nevertheless left Ontario for England on the very next day , 3 July 1991 . |
| 25 | Iraq formally annexed Kuwait on Aug. 8 , in defiance of the imposition of UN sanctions [ see below ] and despite the arrival of US forces in Saudi Arabia . |
| 26 | The County Antrim player yesterday defeated N.Bohling from Sweden 4–3 , but at the same time Watson was beating Dale 4–2 on an adjoining table . |
| 27 | In the light of the fresh revelations Roh ordered a full investigation of the issue , and on Jan. 21 the South Korean government formally petitioned Japan for compensation . |
| 28 | In spite of all the worrying about it the next stage with Edward still took Sally by surprise when it actually happened . |
| 29 | George 's glib lies always took Libby by surprise , while she was still thinking . |
| 30 | The prosecution claims Allitt deliberately injected Kayley with air . |