Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eminent female psychologists in O'Connell and Russo 's ( 1983 ) study who had married , had all delayed their career development in favour of that of their husbands . |
| 2 | Apple Computer Inc has always jealously guarded its Macintosh environment , but it made a striking gesture when it allowed IBM to build machines that would run the PowerPC version of Macintosh System when the chip is ready . |
| 3 | Among the big gainers , Tonka 's 16.5% 1997 bond , Macy 's 14.5% 1998 , Southland 's 14.5% 1995 and RJR Nabisco 's 17% 2007 have all seen their price rise by half or more this year . |
| 4 | ‘ Because if they do , it 's possible they might discover that they 've only got their zombi gas for about another twenty minutes . |
| 5 | I 've only got his London number . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We 've only got your adoption certificate . ’ |
| 7 | Oh I did n't bring it with me , I 've only got my record book . |
| 8 | They 've only had my fruit cup . ’ |
| 9 | In the United States , Franklin has long sold its product range through retail outlets . |
| 10 | In severe winters this has certainly improved the chance of survival of many common birds and has perhaps raised their winter survival rate generally . |
| 11 | It had so impregnated my string vest that when it had dried I almost succeeded in standing it up like a birdcage . |
| 12 | He explained that there never had been a bottle of perfume , but he had made the first call in front of his wife who was now quite happy because she thought her husband had merely left her birthday present behind , not , as he had actually done , completely forgotten her birthday . |
| 13 | She had only passed her driving test after her marriage and this was the first time that she had driven unaccompanied by night . |
| 14 | He had a cat flap in the flat door if he wanted to get into the rest of the house and Fenella had thoughtfully left my kitchen window wide open so he could come and go that way via the flat roof of the kitchen extension next door . |
| 15 | Jean had n't long passed her driving test and I tried to help by pointing out when she should be moving up through the gears . |
| 16 | I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's . |
| 17 | The 24 year old student had only started his university course this year . |
| 18 | How depressed those tough pioneers would be to see their descendants , who had not only lost their pioneer spirit , but the ability to walk ! |
| 19 | Those were blows which against most of his previous opponents would have swiftly enhanced his knockout record . |
| 20 | I could cut and different things like that and be it fate or not his er suddenly lost his driving licence . |
| 21 | By concentrating on that , they 've not only improved their service level remarkably but they 've also reduced their stock levels at a number of warehousing points and reduced their cost structure . ’ |
| 22 | Lotus say they have greatly improved their Mermaid pond pumps while Cyprio 's UVC s can be used on ponds or as anti bacterial systems on tanks . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ They have all learnt their three-times table . |
| 25 | Stratus Computer Inc has duly expanded its XA/R line of Intel Corp 80860 RISC-based Continuous Processing Systems with nine new models , claiming about 2.5 times the performance of comparably-priced members of the 68000 family-based XA2000 Series ( UX No 391 ) . |
| 26 | The redshank has vastly expanded its breeding range in Shetland in the last thirty years or so . |
| 27 | At the Swan Hotel in Stratford , Mrs Roscoe had just completed her evening meal , a concoction of beans so splendidly bleak as to delight the most dedicated Vegan . |
| 28 | I do not want to concentrate on procedural matters , but , as the hon. Gentleman said , it is curious that the Bill has not been introduced by the Government , especially as the Nurses , Midwives and Health Visitors Bill has just completed its Committee stage . |
| 29 | He found that man more easily than he had anticipated , quite near at hand , indeed , having himself just completed his return charge and now wondering what to do next . |
| 30 | Striding as quickly as he could whilst avoiding drawing attention to himself , Sergeant Bird covered the hundred and fifty yards that separated them , and stood close behind a sharp-featured elderly lady who had just placed her shopping bag on the pavement next to the telephone box in a proprietary way . |