Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we got there and he said right okay you 're the press chappy he 's right I 've put your press people over there so while respect Lieutenant Commander that really wo n't do because everything including the Band of the Royal Marines is between them and the Princess Royal so we argued about this and the compromise eventually was that that everybody would have to stay there until the ceremony started and then we could bring the stills photographers round to the end and up to one side where it was all happening mainly to get a picture of his wife cutting the cake . |
| 2 | The so-called Anabaptists ' take-over of Munster in 1536 became for more than a century afterwards a byword among the respectable for the supposed anarchy , savagery and madness which were bound to result if ever the " multitude " gained political power . |
| 3 | Both of these can be avoided by delegating nursery schools on a similar basis to the delegation which was made for ordinary schools and again you consulted about that and the proposal laid in this report . |
| 4 | An inquest has heard that a baby boy , who lived for less than an hour , could have died because of injuries caused by forceps used during his birth . |
| 5 | The last six wickets tumbled for 22 and the West Indies were all out for 262 , and inadequate total on a hard , true pitch . |
| 6 | The Russian plan , probably inspired by the offer of £200,000 from British conservation groups to buy Brightness and his beluga comrade , Gorgeous , who is still free , prompted a furious reaction from British campaigners who fought for more than a month to have the beluga airlifted from Turkish waters to the Arctic . |
| 7 | He quit after four and a half years because he feared he would get tagged as a soap star . |
| 8 | His was not the look of a man who vacationed for three and a half months in a place where bird-watching was high on the entertainment list . |
| 9 | The hunt recently fenced off 6 and a half miles of the M40 to stop foxes getting onto it . |
| 10 | The hunt recently fenced off 6 and a half miles of the M40 to stop foxes getting onto it . |
| 11 | Occasions occurred for this when the manager was sacked and when the admission charges were put up . |
| 12 | Five years ago he began seeing a psychotherapist , but stopped after two and a half years of treatment . |
| 13 | The simmering dispute erupted in public when the B'nai B'rith International board of governors adopted a motion to expel the 120,000-member B'nai B'rith Women unless the affiliate relinquishes its autonomous status . |
| 14 | The simmering dispute erupted in public when the B'nai B'rith International board of governors adopted a motion to expel the 120,000-member B'nai B'rith Women unless the affiliate relinquishes its autonomous status . |
| 15 | Among the western Saxons Ine may not have acquired royal power until the following year ; he abdicated in 726 and the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List gives him a reign of thirty-seven years which implies an accession in 689 , not 688 . |
| 16 | Both were the kind of homosexuals who felt sexually inhibited with partners from their own educational background and class and who rarely found in one and the same person both lover and friend . |
| 17 | It was the first ‘ invisible radiation ’ to be discovered , when William Herschel found in 1800 that a thermometer would register heat beyond the red end of the Sun 's visible spectrum . |
| 18 | Leslie found in 1958 that the Government papers and radio were greatly distrusted : newspapers which were anti-government were avidly sought after but not always easy to obtain . |
| 19 | What he perceived was rather the state of the doctor and he inferred from this that a change must have taken place at some time before that moment . |
| 20 | Four other cases in table III were excluded from our analyses because they fell outside the period covered : cases 1–3 occurred before complete registration data were available , and case 14 occurred in 1991 after the decision had been taken to make 1990 the final year of the analysis . |
| 21 | In practice they occurred in less than a quarter of the cases recorded by Amnesty International since 1985 . |
| 22 | Bleary-eyed after counting and recounting 15,000 layers , they discovered that the climate shifts occurred in less than a decade and that the shifts occurred approximately 1,000 years earlier than previously estimated from the ice cores. although such layer counting has a credibility problem , at the Summit site et all . |
| 23 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 24 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 25 | Grapes and sunflowers flourished in southern England but the real winners were suppliers of insecticides : sales to agriculture and horticulture rose by more than a third in 1989 . |
| 26 | Crime recorded in the Central South region last year rose by more than the national average . |
| 27 | The one-day game in Trinidad was , according to Wisden ‘ described by many as the best one-day international played in the West Indies ’ , and England won it off the final ball . |
| 28 | All trucks had to be well-hosed and limewashed between each and every journey . |
| 29 | Shoved into a seatette by a hostess who had been trained not to calm and charm passengers but to harm them and occasionally embalm them , I quickly settled into what would become my life for what seemed like more than a lifetime . |
| 30 | The remarkable correlation remained a mystery , because the hedgerow thirty yards ahead of the two horsemen exploded with musket-fire and the Lieutenant 's horse collapsed , shot in the chest . |