Example sentences of "[num] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fifth seeded American won the third round encounter 6–3 6–4 then raced for shelter as the rain flooded the Edgbaston Priory club . |
| 2 | Very painstaking stratigraphical work put it beyond doubt that men had been contemporary with animals now extinct , and that human history must therefore go back long before the 4004 BC computed from Genesis . |
| 3 | The training school in the Sardinian foreign ministry which was seriously considered at the end of the 1840s never came into existence . |
| 4 | The squeeze on consumption prior to 1969 now led to trade unions adopting a more militant posture in wage negotiations . |
| 5 | An official decision by the authorities to switch off electricity to student dormitories at 11 p.m. led to unrest on campus . |
| 6 | Dicey 's concerns in 1914 also extended to apprehension about the principle of the rule of law : |
| 7 | My party of five soon felt at home and relaxed here . |
| 8 | The official last car was E/3 Class , No. 1941 , which left Purley terminus at 11.24 p.m. crowded to capacity and there were crowds all along the road . |
| 9 | Not all the crew was impressed with the wild beauty however , although Dave Scadding , my number one really fell in love with Scotland , so much so that he applied for a transfer to Kirkwall on our return to Southampton . |
| 10 | I feel 1 am transported into paradise where I am taken by the hand by Kabir the Weaver and led into the enchanted gardens where Li Po and Kalidas and Rumi sing forever . |
| 11 | A few dozen of the 64-seat YS-11s eventually went into service and are now , to the delight of jolted passengers , nearing the end of their lives . |
| 12 | Two Catholic workmen lay dead , two more died in hospital a short time later , and another was seriously injured . |
| 13 | The events associated with the prisoners ' rights movement that flourished for a time in the late 1960s and early 1970s in parts of the United States , Scandinavia and Britain had by the early 1980s largely disappeared without trace . |