Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Young Socialists were in a state of constant conflict with their elders , and they fought bitterly against any intervention in their political initiatives . |
| 2 | The crisis arose eventually over another matter , when Ken exerted successful moral pressure on one of William 's Dutch courtiers to marry the Princess 's maid of honour whom he had seduced . |
| 3 | If one accepts the story of Molla Yegan 's bringing Molla Gurani to the Ottoman court-and there seems no reason not to-then on the basis of what appears to be the fairly firm evidence for this part of Molla Gurani 's career , Molla Yegan 's return from his journey can not be dated earlier than 845/1441–2 ; and on the reasonable assumption that the purpose of Molla Yegan 's journey was to make the pilgrimage , it seems entirely likely that it was in the year 844/1440–1 , the same year that Molla Gurani made his abortive pilgrimage , that Molla Yegan also performed the hajj and that the two met somewhere after that pilgrimage , though clear information about the actual time and place of their meeting is entirely lacking . |
| 4 | When parents ceased to be available , primitive man could well have felt the loss , and the need to transfer the dependence elsewhere and this led eventually to some form of imagined substitute , or ‘ god ’ as the surrogate . |
| 5 | The reception area had obviously been designed to impress , with its mushroom-coloured Anton Plus carpet imported from America , its three-tiered Czechoslovakian glass crystal lights , its brown leather armchairs and its crushed velour curtains draped ornately on either side of the plate glass window facing directly out on to the car park . |
| 6 | For all the young people who have shared not just today but shared together in this weekend thank you God . |
| 7 | Lord Denning decided that if the clause was limited by its perceived object it applied only to such part of the GUS group as operated within the UK . |
| 8 | In practice , they agreed only to more muddle . |
| 9 | It 's like this film I seen about these penguins — you know , how they all lived together on this island , and they was loads of them , all jammed together . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , Japan 's domestic economy expanded greatly during this period , so commercial and financial practices naturally developed as well , though along slightly different lines from those of the West . |
| 11 | The decrease in the incidence of pancreatitis discharges in women also occurred predominantly in this age group ( Fig 3B ) . |
| 12 | Our grateful thanks to everyone listed below as this year 's donors to the Appeal . |
| 13 | The Stags Fell stone-mines are typical of a phenomenon found only in this area . |
| 14 | Tallis moved swiftly through this place of forest shrines , and after a while the nature of the wood changed again . |
| 15 | Clean , it was an absolute dream ; the EQ offered more than enough scope to produce anything from a cutting Telecaster to a rich acoustic tone , and with the help of a short delay and pitchshift I put a sound onto tape which I 'd defy anyone not to recognise as an acoustic guitar — and I 'd actually used the Patrick Eggle New York model reviewed elsewhere in this issue . |
| 16 | They drew away from each other , so mutually sated with explosive body contact that both needed a temporary reprieve . |
| 17 | He gave the explicit coordinate transformation by which the line element ( 10.24 ) becomes , ( 10.26 ) where the coordinate t is not the same as that used elsewhere in this chapter , and ( 10.27 ) which clearly satisfies the necessary conditions . |
| 18 | As Dr. Mann has argued , it does allow the English courts to provide assistance , in practice under the Hague Convention , in certain fiscal and administrative contexts which would be judged by some other countries to fall outside its scope ; Dr. Mann 's unease at this needs to be balanced against the enormous and considered growth , recounted elsewhere in this book , in international co-operation in such fields . |
| 19 | Modern critics were not good at Anglo-Saxon echoes , especially at ones which hung on into modern times in phrases like ‘ mock ’ and ‘ make ’ , ‘ chance ’ and ‘ choice ’ , ‘ bullet ’ and ‘ billet ’ , all mentioned already in this study . |
| 20 | The Ordnance Survey maps of the Iron Age , Roman and other historical periods , are necessary references , and the specialist atlases — Anglo-Saxon England , Historical Atlas of Britain , etc. , mentioned elsewhere in this book — may be considered essential . |
| 21 | To obtain a clear white wine from black grapes Dom Pérignon would have had to employ sophisticated pressing techniques ; it is most likely , therefore , that it was Pérignon who invented the traditional Champagne press , designed exactly for this purpose . |
| 22 | When after a year he moved away to another job , she felt acute distress and thought continuously of him for many months . |
| 23 | As the years passed , they moved away from each other to a greater or less degree . |
| 24 | So I gave myself just half an hour to get to the theatre and prepare for curtain up — and phoned home at each interval . |
| 25 | Many , but sadly not all , camcorders enable you to monitor the sound in the field via an earpiece which is plugged into a socket provided specially for this purpose . |
| 26 | I 'm sorry to report that I behaved rudely at this point . |
| 27 | She posed carefully for each exposure . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The accident rate rose notably from that time ( Labour Research , 1987b ) — a rate not helped by BT 's cut in its safety officers which started in 1985 . |
| 30 | But soon the sails began to fill with wind , and the land and other ships moved past on each side . |