Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the inner-city property sites of National Carriers did not look very tempting once it became clear there was an abundance of that kind of property on offer . |
| 2 | On closer inspection it became clear there were two sets of figures for the same period of time for the Grenfell Leather Trading Company . |
| 3 | When the trial started on Monday , Mr Goldring said that following a number of mysterious incidents involving youngsters at the hospital , it became clear there was a criminal at large on Ward 4 , the children 's ward . |
| 4 | Where Methodism succeeded locally it tended to be of the brand , Lady Huntingdon 's , which appealed most to middling townsfolk . |
| 5 | In spite of his clothes — what difference did clothes ever make in a good strong man — he looked a finely made fellow , and we became secretly his admirers . |
| 6 | If you lived badly you would return as an insect . ’ |
| 7 | Paul read somewhere they keep going on a bequest from George Bernard Shaw . |
| 8 | I read somewhere there was something called bidding ? |
| 9 | His work in geology was of equal importance , since he developed a technique for viewing slivers of rock directly through a microscope ( by cementing the mineral to a glass plate and grinding it to an extreme thinness ) , thus allowing its structure to be visualized by direct microscopy , rather than through use of reflected light , which revealed only its surface qualities . |
| 10 | However , Gary is assured of a permanent place in Palace annals , because he became only our third player ever to appear in all the different numbered outfield shirts , when he wore the number three Jersey at Barnsley on 23 August 1986 . |
| 11 | George was ever-present for nearly three seasons , became only our second post-war goalkeeper to put together a run of 100 consecutive League games ( John Jackson was the first ) , while his hundred appearances straight from his debut was the first achieved by a Palace player for over a quarter of a century . |
| 12 | When I got halfway I heard the angry voice of the French maid saying very aggressively : ‘ You got nobody like Napoleon ! ’ |
| 13 | But in 1974 , I made perhaps my most surprising discovery : Black holes are not completely black ! |
| 14 | But Bernard fainted so she took him into casualty . |
| 15 | On the eighth of February of nineteen seventy two died and on the eleventh of May seventy three died and the plaintiff 's continued the action but the action failed so he was awarded damages from the sale of his estate and on the twenty first of July nineteen seventy two commenced an action against solicitors for negligence or breach of professional duty in detecting to register the option necessity of so doing . |
| 16 | The fat seemed to heat up more rapidly than she expected so she put in the steak and a great sizzling and searing went on and the air became full of blue smoke . |
| 17 | On 25 August 1914 he was , however , appointed Military Governor of Paris , and its defence became entirely his responsibility . |
| 18 | He closed his own over it , but her questing tongue met only his teeth . |
| 19 | But when you got inside you found it was ugly , crude , bourgeois . |
| 20 | Every time , therefore , they met together their aggregate expenses amounted to at least £12 to £15 , or even more " . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm masquerading , playing fashion games , ’ she whispered so they could all hear , ‘ unlike ma belle Katherine , who will never feel the need to . |
| 22 | And he got so he could gradually do without it and he never stuttered again . |
| 23 | er after they got so you had n't got no more life in them we used to weld short bits onto . |
| 24 | Those letters from you , it got so I almost believed they were really written to me . |
| 25 | Your content was good but you were lacking pace I think forty eight you got so I want the weather forecast from you next all right ? |
| 26 | Eleven , you 've got four hundred pound , you got so it 's a good second hand one or a cheapy no , well it would be a cheapy I told him most of them around about seven hundred and ninety nine |
| 27 | In overall terms , there would be impressive savings ( particularly in energy costs ) if each produced only what each produced best . |
| 28 | I 've been looking after myself of course and I got together her lunch at sits , I sit all the time . |
| 29 | My son started a youth club in one of the common rooms and we as residents we got together we really enjoyed ourselves in our way , you know ? |
| 30 | The next morning when they got together everyone had got a model . |