Example sentences of "[det] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He first started Judo 13 years ago at school and this soon developed into tai-boxing and ju-jitsu . |
| 2 | This soon led to criticism of the excessive power of the Chancellor : ‘ The Chancellor 's position has become so strong that his opponents and supporters alike complain about his authoritarian style of leadership [ writing about Adenauer ] … |
| 3 | But the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent development of Soviet society produced an emphasis upon another strand in Marxist thought about the transition to socialism ( one which had not hitherto been given much prominence ) involving the idea of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ; and in the specific conditions prevailing in Russia , which differed entirely from those in Western Europe , this soon evolved in practice into the dictatorship of the Bolshevik party , then the dictatorship of the party 's central committee , and finally the dictatorship of a single individual . |
| 4 | Another doggedly persisted in identification along the lines of ‘ … it looks a bit like an animal … four footed — the shape — the middle … |
| 5 | Infants were originally barred by the Parliamentary Elections Act 1695 but some nevertheless sat without challenge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 6 | This usually happened after lunch on the day following their arrival . |
| 7 | I guess a few more came to light . |
| 8 | ‘ If this ever came to court it would n't look good for an older woman to be seen enticing a young boy into marriage — ’ |
| 9 | Unfortunately , Randall left ambiguous the respective roles of Wilkins and Franklin , and this later led to dissension about the demarcation of the DNA research at King 's , but a letter of his to Franklin in 1950 makes it clear that on ‘ the experimental X-ray effort there would be for the moment only yourself and Gosling ’ . |
| 10 | One third of this now sagged under water . |
| 11 | This originally appeared as part of a Fabian Women 's Group report based upon research from 1909 – 13 into the daily lives of families living in Lambeth . |
| 12 | This almost led to grounding of the plane but replacement with an incompatible elastomer made from ethylene-propylene copolymer rectified the fault . |
| 13 | This never came to trial and in the autumn he sold the land to IBM for a price similar to that received by other farmers , with a sum for damages much smaller than that he had sought in his suit . |
| 14 | When this was put to the Environment Trust erm they were er , unaware before that stage that there were erm may be proposals of developing that land and expressed an interest in being involved if that ever came to fruition . |
| 15 | The word spiritual has become for many fundamentally dissociated from religion and so serves to encourage an alternative , one that is more attractive because lacking both definition and the incubus associated with religion . |
| 16 | Window replacement is big business these days : we 're all constantly bombarded with television advertisements and leaflets pushed through our letter boxes , offering a wide range of different products , and it can be a bit bewildering knowing where to start . |
| 17 | We are all so bombarded with information that it requires a lot of will-power to set out to find more information . |
| 18 | No did n't go any where at all just stayed at home . |
| 19 | Many thus went into executive search as it seemed an attractive , lucrative and not unpleasant way to earn a living . |
| 20 | Which could be quite a bit as they all still lived at home with their mums and dads . |
| 21 | At the stroke of a pen they removed hundreds of thousands of needy youngsters from the benefit system and condemned many of them to a life of mendicant poverty , many also slipped into prostitution . |
| 22 | He proceeded down the aisle towards the fallen cross , that now lay in front of the altar , before stopping over the dead German officer and continuing until he came face to face with Tommy , who was still holding a pistol pointing straight at his heart . |
| 23 | They walked slowly up the church path , past the old graves , those so seared by time and weather that they stood as grey shapes furred with lichen , names and dates no longer legible , uniform in obscurity . |
| 24 | I do n't know what the programmers were on when they made up this game , but as Boy 's Own once said about liquid E , if it comes in pints , I 'll have two ! |
| 25 | That never came , that never came to fruition . |
| 26 | ‘ Things like that never happened at court in Queen Elizabeth 's days . ’ |