Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 2 | Schoop was , however , found guilty on the same charges because she gave further details to Hans Kopp when he telephoned her later the same day at his wife 's suggestion . |
| 3 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 4 | She shuddered as convulsively as he did , and became lost in the same giant whirlpool of pleasure . |
| 5 | Tony says he was into raves until 1990 , when he got bored with the same hectic beats and ‘ could see it was n't going to get any bigger because the government was n't backing it . |
| 6 | Certainly , this was the way he needed to present it for domestic consumption , for this new alliance and the concession of territory for military use by a foreign power scarcely seemed consistent with the many hours and column inches he had devoted to demonizing the western democracies and to denouncing the British " occupation " of Gibraltar . |
| 7 | The heroes of the hour were left-hander David Byas and Craig White , who both came good at the same time to record their career-best Sunday scores . |
| 8 | Despite repeated attacks on Quentovic in the 830s and 840s , for instance , the output of the Quentovic mint , meagre in those decades ( but also in the 820s ) , became large in the latter half of Charles 's reign ; in 858 , the monks of St-Wandrille fled for safety to Quentovic . |
| 9 | The ground became firm for a few hundred yards and I ran , my eyes taking in every dot on the horizon , looking for that familiar yellow speck , but I missed seeing a sandy hollow right under my nose . |
| 10 | Ethiopia , where the monarchy was overthrown in 1974 , inaugurated a People 's Democratic Republic in 1987 under the leadership of the Workers ' Party of Ethiopia ; Mozambique , which became independent in 1975 , was headed by a liberation movement of broadly Marxist orientation ; and Angola , which became independent in the same year , was governed by the Marxist MPLA-PT ( all three countries concluded friendship treaties with the USSR in the 1970s ) . |
| 11 | When IBM stock hit bottom with a such resounding thud last month it cost its shareholders more than $6 billion , 17.5% of total capitalisation . |
| 12 | Justification for Scott 's impressive display in the House of Commons became apparent within a few days of his drawings being hung . |
| 13 | Accurate and pertinent information was prepared by Campbell , a professional rugby journalist , and made available to the same breed . |
| 14 | Then the smell of warm grass came to join that of the roses and gunpowder and he fell asleep for a few moments , dreaming of cricket fields and meadows . |
| 15 | He fell asleep for a few hours just before dawn and woke cold and cramped , his head on the small desk , his body somehow wedged on the stool . |
| 16 | But he grew rich on no more than a promise . |
| 17 | Travelling by train from Gatwick Airport to London , I felt sorry for the many foreign visitors struggling to follow the announcements made over the loudspeaker . |
| 18 | The CO looked thoughtful for a few moments . |
| 19 | I felt relieved in the same huge way as when you 've been desperate to pee and you finally get to a loo … |
| 20 | Well they knew that I was a graduate in erm , they had two , they had a , a lab manager and an assistant , and they both went sick at the same time , and er , they asked me if I 'd do it . |
| 21 | United played some classy football against Millwall in the first half … they looked good for a few goals but ended with nothing … |
| 22 | She had never mentioned that she possessed musical ability , so the crew listened spellbound for a few minutes as she played the carol ‘ Silent Night , Holy Night ’ , as though she had been rehearsing for a month . |
| 23 | Each time I pretended to go to sleep again and went crazy after a few minutes . |
| 24 | The mouth of every Councillor fell open at the same moment . |
| 25 | He fell silent for a few moments , shredding the paper that had wrapped his sugar cube . |
| 26 | They fell silent for a few moments as they drank their tea . |
| 27 | The keel stayed solid for a few moments , then clouded and became clear as glass . |
| 28 | Philosophers could argue against them , playwrights could mock them , but their following remained strong among the many who felt that one can not be too careful not to offend the cosmic powers . |
| 29 | After he 'd gone Sarella sat still for a few moments with her head resting on the chair-back . |
| 30 | The two men , Executioner and challenger , stood motionless for a few seconds , each weighing up the opponent he would now face in a fight to the death . |