Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used water wisely then and we hope they will continue to . |
| 2 | Zuwaya made peace about once or twice a month . |
| 3 | In the short term captopril reduced microalbuminuria more effectively than nifedipine in subjects with incipient diabetic nephropathy . |
| 4 | This may be connected to the fact that the youngsters came bottom as far as hugs were concerned , as 57pc said their parents hugged them compared with a national average of 70pc . |
| 5 | Men like him were born with charm , exuded sensuality as unthinkingly as they breathed in air . |
| 6 | Cenwulf 's brother Cuthred was made sub-king of Kent no later than 801 , and they granted land there jointly and individually until Cuthred 's death ( 807 ) . |
| 7 | If he played golf as badly as that he 'd pack it in . |
| 8 | Phoebe loathed housekeeping so profoundly that she felt guilty about it and always did it with a disciplined and joyless rigour , expecting everyone else to do so too . |
| 9 | Studies on the effects of medical healing of oesophagitis suffer from the drawbacks of small numbers and the fact that some of them have included in their analysis patients who showed improvement in rather than complete healing of oesophagitis . |
| 10 | Clare served supper early so that four-year-old Josh could stay up late and eat with them . |
| 11 | He made trouble all right but not like that . |
| 12 | Inside each brown case waited the empty skull-face , folded flat , with a flappy rubber nose and hard cylindrical snout , though they frightened Dot less now than they used to . |
| 13 | She loved Roman so much that she was jealous of the air he breathed . |
| 14 | They transgressed fixity not only because they were without fixed abode , but also because they lacked the identity which , in a hierarchical society , was essentially conferred by one 's place in that society . |
| 15 | In contrast , Western whaling nations needed the whale oil , although it is true that products from coastal whaling in Europe included meat as early as the 11th century . |
| 16 | He loved theatre so much that he became very angry if it were bad . |
| 17 | They were a best-selling group without real fans , more like the Archies than the Sex Pistols , and they lost significance as rapidly as they gained it . |
| 18 | Susan and Luke and I were friends years ago : we lost touch not long before you and Luke came to know one another . ’ |
| 19 | We made love as often as possible . |
| 20 | A big hand must go to the Canadians who took part so wholeheartedly and the many other international representatives . |
| 21 | Beaverbrook , indeed , who knew Law very well but was also addicted to dramatic interpretations , believed that the collapse of Law 's health stemmed partly from this destruction of his position as undisputed captain , maybe of ‘ the second eleven ’ in Churchill 's phrase , but at least of a team of like-minded , straightforward and loyal men . |
| 22 | As the camp progressed , a number of interesting changes took place both within and between the groups . |
| 23 | The growth of German industry , the flight from the land , the Ostflucht and the ending of serfdom had all broken the bonds of the Prussian feudal system ; had caused a massive upheaval in terms of social and geographical mobility ; had caused a radical change and development in German class- and national consciousness , and had created problems of identity deep within the German consciousness , precisely because they took place much later than in the west European nations . |
| 24 | The growth of student numbers took place far faster than in the UK — and the consequences for the nature of university education have been correspondingly more dramatic . |
| 25 | This factor of material prosperity , which was already cited by Sombart ( 1906 ) at the beginning of this century as a partial explanation of the absence of any large-scale socialist movement in the US , acquired particularly great importance in the period following the Second World War , when economic growth took place more rapidly than ever before , and the question could be posed as to whether the US did not simply show to capitalist Europe the image of its own future — a future that would be characterized by a decline of the socialist movement , and indeed of all ideological revolutionary parties and movements . |
| 26 | When he asked , then , ‘ What has Ingeld to do with Christ ? ’ , he was using Ingeld as an example of the most extreme gap between good ‘ heroic ’ behaviour and good Christian behaviour ; Ingeld took unforgivingness as far as it could go . |
| 27 | Although I sailed through O-Level I never took maths any further and I never engaged creatively in the process of doing mathematics . |
| 28 | It has been noted that early Methodism took root most significantly where the Church was weak . |
| 29 | Reagan took Congress very seriously and was always coming over to the Capitol for meetings . ’ |
| 30 | The results , summarized in Fig. 3.13 , reveal some evidence of latent inhibition in that these subjects acquired suppression less readily than control subjects that had received initial exposure to a stimulus other than the tone . |