Example sentences of "soon [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The road passes by the chapel and is soon joined on the left by a road coming from Ingleton and this offers an opportunity for a brief detour to see Deepdale . |
| 2 | This man , who was soon joined by three friends , reminded me of the woozily friendly Galway people I had known in Brighton in the late sixties and early seventies . |
| 3 | John slowly rose and sat at the table where he was soon joined by the two women . |
| 4 | The constable was soon joined by his colleagues and between them they obtained detailed descriptions of the man who had dashed from the direction of the bakery . |
| 5 | With glasses replenished we sat in the CHAB studio where we were soon joined by His Worship the Mayor and a number of other leading citizens who had stayed behind in the hotel to hear the broadcast . |
| 6 | He was soon joined by his brother and the two of them set up a practice in the Army and Navy Mansions on Victoria Street . |
| 7 | Mercer and Bambi chose a centrally located table and were soon joined by their less than happy offspring , Sheridan audibly saying , ‘ I do n't see why we have to sit in here when we have our own private car . ’ |
| 8 | They were soon joined by the recruits J. S. Grant Wilson and J. Linn . |
| 9 | They were soon joined by Tibetans calling for independence , turning the demonstration into what police said was a ‘ counter-revolutionary activity ’ . |
| 10 | The pleasure-seeking Prince was soon joined by friends and court followers anxious to discover the delights of ‘ London by the sea ’ . |
| 11 | We all met in the foyer where we were soon joined by Evelyn Laye , ‘ Boo ’ to her intimate friends , who looked wonderful in a navy blue dress , and went round greeting everyone . |
| 12 | The rebels were soon joined by the Count of Périgord and the Viscounts of Ventadour , Comborn and Turenne , the most prominent members of that network of inter-marriage and cousinage which characterized Limousin and Angoumois society . |
| 13 | In September , open hostilities having been resumed in Gascony , Isabella , Mortimer and the prince , accompanied by a small force of Hainault and German troops , crossed from Dordrecht to East Anglia and were soon joined by dissident magnates and prelates . |
| 14 | ‘ Over here , ’ shouted one of the Sturmabteilungen and the others , six to start with , but soon joined by more from inside the building , ran to where he had found the tripped alarm . |
| 15 | Her hopes for their return to the Lake District were finally realized ‘ home at Grasmere ’ , in the workaday setting of Dove Cottage ( 1799 ) , where they were soon joined by the Coleridges and Robert Southey [ q.v. ] and his wife from Keswick , and later by Thomas De Quincey [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | Much the same pattern emerges at Middlewich , where early salt production has already been mentioned ; this was soon joined by iron-working and pottery production , as well as a range of service trades . |
| 17 | They were soon joined by the Party 's chief press officer . |
| 18 | Colin Currie , project manager , began work at North Morecambe within days of the contract being signed , and he was soon joined by his deputy , Stan Hill . |
| 19 | They were soon joined by Duncan Curr , member of Dublin Street Baptist Church and Chairman of Christian Aid/CEEC , who had bicycled in from Juniper Green – and eventually , ny me . |
| 20 | Churchill was soon joined in expressing such a marginal Conservative view by Anthony Eden , one of the leading appeasers of the 1930s . |
| 21 | Dublin-born master flautist Brian Dunning and ex-Stockton 's Wing bodhran virtuoso Tommy Hayes were soon joined in Portland , Oregon , by Bothy Band founder Micheál O Dhomhnaill , and immediately the stage was set for a musical collaboration which has taken the band all over the world . |
| 22 | This may be entered but progress is soon halted by a waterslide into a deep pool . |
| 23 | The loud sound of 200 people breathing hard was soon punctuated by a woman beginning to sob , then howl . |
| 24 | The wheels soon graunched against a broken stone wall , and a worry of goats scattered like demons in the dark . |
| 25 | If incorrectly fitted , it is soon ripped to bits with even gentle off roading . |
| 26 | Summer thunderstorms are common , but the torrential downpours which they often bring are soon evaporated in the hot sun and are of limited value to agriculture . |
| 27 | Although at the time the Minister rejected this suggestion as unacceptable , the Government soon agreed to most of the MP 's suggestions . |
| 28 | The losing and finding were soon treated as pure fictions and the defendant was not allowed to deny them . |
| 29 | And when Jessie saw this man that she loved slide down the wall , then drop onto his side , she screamed ; but her screaming was soon checked by her father who , staggering towards her , put his hand over her mouth then twisted one of her arms behind her and thrust her towards the staircase door . |
| 30 | During his youth , Barbarossa saw a rapid increase in the number of monasteries , considerable development of learning , scientific and intellectual skills , and the beginning of cathedral schools , which were soon to blossom into universities . |