Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of this he often failed to bring about cures and eventually became disillusioned with hypnosis as a form of therapy . |
| 2 | If teachers only got paid for pupils passing their exams , there are some pupils who 'd never get any education at all . |
| 3 | In the interval much had happened to Marx and he was by then an exile in London in a place and a situation where inevitably he was more remote from the centres of political action . |
| 4 | The first major place we reached was a city called Oradea where we realised that not much had changed in Romania since our last visit . |
| 5 | Much had changed in language teaching since the hey-day of audio visual methods with intensive drilling according to behaviourists principles . |
| 6 | Much had changed in Wales in the two hundred years since Llewelyn ap Iorwerth the Great ; but this was not changed . |
| 7 | Dunwoody had delayed the decision until after Wo n't Be Gone Long had schooled at Towcester earlier this week . |
| 8 | A similar banality in 2010 is unrelieved by Kubrick 's wicked irony , but is partly concealed by the excellent acting of Scheider , Mirren , Balaban , Lithgow , Baskin , and , of course , Douglas Rain again as the voice of HAL — he alone had escaped from Kubrick 's anti — acting regime in 2001 , to become the only character that anyone cares about or indeed remembers . |
| 9 | After the war , it was estimated that , between February 21st and the end of June , 23,000 French alone had died in hospitals as a result of wounds received at Verdun . |
| 10 | The theme that the right alone had espoused for years — German unification — had overnight become official state policy , leaving the extreme right temporarily disarmed . |
| 11 | Brighton , relegated from Division Two last season , constantly had United in trouble . |
| 12 | Always known as ‘ Harry ’ , Quelch first joined the Bermondsey Radical Club and soon became known in London left-wing politics . |
| 13 | It somehow got turned to Glencoe . |
| 14 | I , I just I just got prepared for Steven though . |
| 15 | She no longer felt threatened by Joe . |
| 16 | On Tuesday night they easily put paid to Newtownards ' slight remaining hopes , by beating them 3.5–1.5 . |
| 17 | Jane — downstairs had remarked on men 's capacity for self-deception ; women are n't bad at it either . |
| 18 | And as we were coming home from Rousay pier we met the Wyre post boat coming across for the mails that we already had dumped in Rousay . |
| 19 | During the 1970s a forum of scholar-critics gradually became established in England . |
| 20 | Mallachy , when questioned , used the need for caution with great subtlety , with sliding eyes and tapping of the nose , and quickly became accepted by admirers as definitely in there somewhere , but too deep a man to make light comments on it . |
| 21 | A cross-cut , it was intended to decussate the vein and at once became known as Fleming 's Level in honour of Her Ladyship . |
| 22 | Specific lessons were being taught and the abuse of wealth was being condemned but in the vast majority of ‘ social ’ films the message usually came wrapped in melodrama . |
| 23 | Mitterrand still seemed rattled in September 1990 at the summit which preceded unification in October . |
| 24 | The first words I ever heard spoken in Cambo were ‘ A coffee please , not too strong , ’ which seemed to sum up this mild and cautious little town . |
| 25 | She could n't name many things she found lovable , but knew a thrill in being on the waterfront and always felt cheered by clouds racing along in the sky . |
| 26 | His throat still felt constricted after Duvall 's blow . |
| 27 | several weeks previously , still lay packed in straw- and grit-speckled drifts on the sunless north-facing sides of the houses and thorn bush hedges . |
| 28 | By my first week in-country ( my third on mefloquine ) I had reduced sensation in my legs , was waking up with a start from severe nightmares which subjectively had lasted for hours ( in reality for only 15 min ) , and occasionally wondering what it would be like to jump the eight floors from my hotel room . |
| 29 | He claimed they were questioned in ‘ terror-ridden institutions like Castlereagh ’ , while the authorities still remained opposed to reforms such as allowing video and audio-recording of interrogations . |
| 30 | The right to stand for election still remained restricted to Matai . |