Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This occurred in both the proximal and distal colon . |
| 2 | When he was joined in the Test team by Desmond Haynes , one of the most dependable and successful of all opening partnerships was created , and as the senior member in his late twenties Greenidge matured at just the right time . |
| 3 | She was told that , unless insemination occurred at exactly the right time each month , her acid levels would kill off the donor sperm . |
| 4 | It is possible to infer from these passages and others in The State of the Prisons that Howard believed in both the good man theory , and in control by the courts . |
| 5 | Well Christopher came in here the other day and he says that cake is |
| 6 | Cos a I I 've got the contracts right in the Body Shop , we got Karen she used to work in Superdrug , and she came in there the other day and I 'm saying , och , do you know Michelle ? |
| 7 | The majority of his 49 international goals came from outside the 18-yard box , and they turned many a game . |
| 8 | The sound came from inside the golden orb of hair . |
| 9 | She recognised at once the well-built woman who turned from some chore at the kitchen sink as the woman who had opened the door to her last Friday . |
| 10 | It was along one such barren track that Val came across more the gaunt pillars of volcanic rock , ‘ They were like giant effigies presiding over their parched and desolate kingdom . |
| 11 | It was the best lesson I 've ever had , and it came at just the right time . ’ |
| 12 | He never came to a conclusion for Angelina and Oliver came at just the wrong moment , just as the fish required the hand of the maître . |
| 13 | It was very difficult to concentrate on football , and then my injuries came at completely the wrong time . |
| 14 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
| 15 | That meeting consisted of practically the whole business community of Belfast . |
| 16 | Others were picked up opportunistically because a visitor or student arrived with just the right skills or interests to move ahead on a front I might otherwise have neglected . |
| 17 | In fact your letter arrived at just the right time , since I am now planning the Spring ‘ 93 Edition of Rural Wales . |
| 18 | A former chairman of Swindon Town Football Club has admitted in court that he lied to both the Inland Revenue and the Football League . |
| 19 | In place of the great Moscow or Kolomna merchant , the Nizhny Novogorod miller , the Moscow flax or hemp-factory owner , the large export wholesaler , and the old ‘ flour dealers ’ , the railroad stations now swarmed with a mass of small traders , exporters , and commission merchants , all buying grain , hemp , hides , lard , sheepskin , down and bristles — in a word , everything bound for either the domestic or the foreign market . |
| 20 | Oh really , I only went in there the other day , well the other week about a fortnight ago |
| 21 | When I went in there the other week , you walk in and think is n't she nice . |
| 22 | We drove on and saw from afar the short 11th hole , a stern test with the wind coming up . |
| 23 | What is more , in the decade after 1975 employment in these two sectors grew at twice the average rate for all industry . |
| 24 | Births to routine non-manual workers families ( IIIN ) fell by roughly the national average . |
| 25 | Two men in boiler suits emerged from inside the rear van . |
| 26 | But it appeared at precisely the right moment to catch the poststructuralist tide associated with Derrida and the later Barthes , and several of the most influential titles brought together , rather uneasily , poststructuralism and Marxism . |
| 27 | American stations possessed by now the great train-sheds and large cross-platforms or ‘ midways ’ which could compete with their European rivals . |
| 28 | It was the last great age of travel — by ship and by train — before the joys and mysteries and individualism of travel were overtaken by the bland , pre-packaged age of tourism when daily long-distance flights , with their second-rate movies , plastic food , and attendant jet lag , replaced for ever the slow boat to China and the stopping train to Samarkand . |
| 29 | So Plato , who wrote about both the Athenian family of Pisistratus and the tyranny in fourth-century Sicily , spoke ( Rep . |
| 30 | It was a method of year-dating of civil , as distinct from religious , application first adopted by Imperial Rome and then continued in both the papal and royal chanceries of Europe during the early Middle Ages . |