Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1990 , they made only $3m on revenues of $70m . |
| 2 | The guarantee , however , generated only an action in personam , and admitted only judgment in terms of money . |
| 3 | She bumped along furrows between vines , spattered cobalt-blue with spraying . |
| 4 | By April Gallup found only 24% of voters satisfied with her performance , making her the least popular Prime Minister since opinion polling had begun . |
| 5 | Last year , opinion polls found only 10% of Ukrainians wanting their country to be nuclear-armed . |
| 6 | It is sadly obvious that as the author of the guidebook moved further south into regions more and more unfamiliar to him so his prejudices became more and more vitriolic . |
| 7 | From at least 1607 he also drew up plans of properties in London to accompany leases of Christ 's Hospital . |
| 8 | With with dredged up pieces of rocks bigger than that erm machine , bigger than yes , that one yeah . |
| 9 | As was so often the case , he sucked up nourishment from books he happened to be reading , finding parallels in the lives of characters to his own dilemmas and solutions . |
| 10 | Reportedly he was chosen from a field of at least three candidates after two rounds of secret balloting ; commentators suggested that this bore out rumours of divisions within the Church between conservatives and reformers seeking to capitalize on greater freedom from state control by playing a more assertive role in society . |
| 11 | ‘ I found out 80% of Fijians who served on Christmas Island are dead . |
| 12 | Davide turned the page , passed over columns of marriages and deaths , noted the substance of wills wonderingly , and came across a report that caught his attention . |
| 13 | ‘ We filled in loads of forms and kept reminding the council but nothing happened . |
| 14 | ‘ We filled in loads of forms and kept reminding the council but nothing happened . |
| 15 | It came only moments after neighbours Dave and Ruth Young left for a day-trip with their four-year-old son Danny . |
| 16 | Thérèse lifted out bunches of letters held together by rubber bands . |
| 17 | ‘ In total , he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirit which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 18 | ‘ In total he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirits which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 19 | It is a remarkable fact that although Edward II received almost £240,000 in taxes from his clergy , for three quarters of that amount he was indebted to the papacy ; Edward managed to get his hands on 92 per cent of the papal tenths imposed on the English clergy in his reign . |
| 20 | Of the 60 directors who received over £500,000 in dividends , 28 gained up to £1m ; 27 between £1m and £4m ; and five over £4m . |
| 21 | The TBC was intended to be self-financing , yet in 1960 it obtained only £5,002 from licences and £6,896 from advertising . |
| 22 | The Utes who once inhabited these regions handed down tales of gods as entities with a wry sense of humour , human faults and even a mean streak . |
| 23 | The Utes who once inhabited these regions handed down tales of gods as entities with a wry sense of humour , human faults and even a mean streak . |
| 24 | It ticks off a litany of mistakes from its dependence on mainframes through to the conscious suppression of RISC technology and the grotesque series of blunders by which it handed over control of PCs to Intel and Microsoft . |
| 25 | Miss Pickering told magistrates that he opened up accounts with names he plucked from the telephone directory . |
| 26 | first world war , sort of , really , opened up education to women and , and really more than anything . |
| 27 | Speed camera records showed about 11% of drivers exceeding the speed limit in July 1990 compared with over 20% before the campaign . |
| 28 | The Maktoum family paid out fortunes for horses in the eighties and owned the stars as well . |
| 29 | Fund-raising for renovation of the crumbling ceiling above the stage raised £44,000 but more work was needed so the Theatre Trust handed over £1,500 towards repairs . |
| 30 | Another two jackets hung on hangers on pegs on the wall . |