Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chef in Saratoga Springs exasperated by a difficult customer complaining that his french fries were not sliced thinly enough cut the potatoes paper thin ; the irony was that the customer enjoyed the delicacy so much he asked for more and thus crisps were born . |
| 2 | It provided for broader and more regular consultations , expanded economic , scientific and technological co-operation , and active co-operation in the conversion of the defence industry . |
| 3 | Power and telephone failures occurred between 4 and 5am cutting off communications . |
| 4 | The Prince needed sound advice , particularly as he moved into more and more controversial areas . |
| 5 | David was not a big man but , like several Palace midfield players and defenders , he excelled under intense and almost continuous pressure in Division One . |
| 6 | The nights drew in earlier and earlier , clothed in sinister cloaks of mist like characters by Edgar Allan Poe . |
| 7 | Prima facie the rules of construction must be applied as at the date of execution of the lease : thus a word will be interpreted in the sense it bore at the time ( Texaco Antilles Ltd v Kernochan [ 1973 ] AC 609 : the phrase " public garage " was given the meaning it bore in 1933 and not the one it bore at the date of the litigation ; St Marylebone Property Co Ltd v Tesco Stores Ltd [ 1988 ] 27 EG 72 construing the word " grocer " ) . |
| 8 | The data set was subdivided into people whose first recorded case or control event occurred in 1976 or before and those whose first recorded events occurred between 1977–86 . |
| 9 | Clifford Allen 's new ‘ religion of socialism ’ drew on Christian as well as secular sources . |
| 10 | He had Mark Waugh caught on 60 and then trapped Damien Martyn ( 15 ) and Greg Matthews ( 0 ) leg before to finish the day with 4-46 from 23 overs . |
| 11 | The hon. Member for Exeter ( Mr. Hannam ) referred to that as well . |
| 12 | During the next seventeen years Normand presided over massive and almost continuous expansion . |
| 13 | His eyes flickered to left and right , with hardly a turn of the head . |
| 14 | ‘ Once upon a time I 'd 've made you turn religious , ’ said Constance , and suddenly it occurred to Scarlet that really she was already religious , as anyone who had borne a child must surely be : not in the conventional sense but rather as a passenger on a train would expect someone to be at the controls . |
| 15 | Indeed , the threatened coal strike of 1925 , which occurred at more or less the same time , seemed to confirm this impression . |
| 16 | Wherever we travelled amongst the islands we would collect rare and exotic shells which became for us like fragile clues in a paper-chase of changing life-forms as we moved across historical as well as zoographical boundaries . |
| 17 | His face was ordinary , slightly florid , but enlivened by bright and very blue eyes . |
| 18 | Some of the rather younger Lutheran composers — Hieronymus Praetorius ( 1560–1629 ) , Hans Leo Hassler ( 1564–1612 ) , Christoph Demantius ( 1567–1643 ) , and Michael Praetorius ( c. 1571–1621 ) ( unrelated to Hieronymus ) — came under Venetian as well as Lassus 's influence , although only one of them , Hassler , is known to have visited Venice ( 1585 ) and studied with Andrea Gabrieli . |
| 19 | Is he entitled to confine himself to the particular matters for which he is retained to advise or was he to consider all the circumstances affecting the underlying data including hypothetical circumstances or risks which attention directed from one and not specifically sought . |
| 20 | The results came in thick and fast — flashed across the tv screen over some cheap subtitled American B-movie . |
| 21 | Similarly , if the police believed ( thanks to psychological theories ) that ‘ real ’ delinquents came from broken or otherwise disrupted homes , it could be that they would be more likely to take official action against offenders from such backgrounds , with the result that subsequent analysis of official ‘ delinquents ’ would automatically confirm the theories . |
| 22 | The break-in happened between 6.30 and 10.30pm on Thursday night but so far no witnesses have come forward to give more information about the exact time of the raid . |
| 23 | What happened between early and later Greek society to generate these developments must have been something other than the ‘ intrinsic ’ qualities of literacy alone since literacy was present in both periods . |
| 24 | The Susweca Lounge consisted of thirty or so small round tables on an enormous covered veranda built on stilts over the water . |
| 25 | Immunofluorescence analysis of Hep3B cells : Cells transfected with IL-6DBP-TAG and either treated ( + ) or not treated ( - ) with IL-6 , were fixed in acetic acid and probed with a monoclonal anti-TAG antibody . |
| 26 | This is certainly a more plausible general background to the revolt but it does not explain why Eleanor rebelled in 1173 and not at any other time . |
| 27 | I graduated in 1967 and then I did postgraduate work till 1969 and so I was in a student milieu until a year before the gay movement started . |
| 28 | A major new library opened in 1973 and soon afterwards Nottingham was proud to open the first Medical School to be established in Britain this century . |
| 29 | One of the first major attractions was the Sir Hiram Maxim flying machine , opened in 1904 and still operating today ! |
| 30 | The canal opened in 1822 and soon became one of the busiest routes in Scotland , transporting coal from central Scotland to Edinburgh . |