Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't there very long cos I only went in one class in Road School . |
| 2 | I never stayed in one job for longer than a month . |
| 3 | Ceauşescu 's obsession with numbers ought to have been satisfied by the overmanning which already existed in Romanian industry which could not really provide productive employment for the existing population . |
| 4 | For they devised what Otto Neugebauer has described as ‘ the only intelligent calendar which ever existed in human history ’ . |
| 5 | What is more they appear to have done it , whether in small discussion groups , or the concerts and parties she helped to get under way to celebrate the ending of the war , which also came in that year . |
| 6 | But this is followed by the rather more specialist firms listed in Table 11.8 , Hotel Plan ( under the Inghams and Swan Plan labels ) , and Blue Sky which also specialised in this area . |
| 7 | During the period under discussion there have been a considerable number of such pressure groups — for example , the Nationwide Festival of Light ; the Order of Christian Unity ; the Responsible Society ; the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child , LIFE , as well as a host of other , smaller groups — most of which actually originated in this period . |
| 8 | One of the two pressurized water reactors initially suffered the loss of normal feedwater supply which led to a turbine trip and later to a reactor trip which subsequently resulted in significant damage to portions of the reactor core . |
| 9 | The school or LEA would have to show that , for example , a requirement which affected one group more than another and which therefore resulted in indirect discrimination , was justifiable irrespective of a person 's race . |
| 10 | In more or less timeless modern dress , the duel between the Christian knight Tancred and his former Saracen girlfriend Clorinda , she metaphorically encased in cap-a-pie armour is described by the narrator but enacted unseen behind a sofa . |
| 11 | Derby are offering trials to three Trinidad and Tobago internationals , Russell Latapy , Leonson Lewis and Philbert Jones , who all played in last month 's World Cup defeat by the United States . |
| 12 | Derby are offering trials to three Trinidad and Tobago internationals , Russell Latapy , Leonson Lewis and Philbert Jones , who all played in last month 's World Cup defeat by the United States . |
| 13 | Welsh rulers , with whom Offa may have been at war and who possibly ruled in British territory subject to him , could have been among the kings of the Scots ( Irish ) who recognized the lordship of Charlemagne . |
| 14 | He had lifted her into his arms before she could protest , although in truth she hardly felt in any condition to trek back up the incline towards the barn . |
| 15 | There she once sat in some sort of castle , or not , reading , for sure , the literature of Romanticism , and growing up to resemble — in the opinion of the writer 's aunt , the historian C. B. A. Behrens — a character out of Lermontov . |
| 16 | This frequently necessitated the redistribution and scattering of men who formerly worked in one department and under one roof . |
| 17 | Dodge and Wells return in place of Alan Warwood and Adey Marriott while Jez Harris , who also played in last weekend 's hefty win over Coventry when Cusworth kicked his heels on the bench , remains at stand-off . |
| 18 | It is true that by this choice she sacrificed a community life , which has for many women proved nourishing , but she also gained in personal freedom . |
| 19 | Although he ‘ sought to avoid public controversy ’ — a standard Victorian prefix to anyone who enthusiastically engaged in political warfare — he was elected as a Poor Law Guardian and a member of the Burial Board and the Public Library Committee . |
| 20 | Mademoiselle was n't quite sure whether she really believed in this spider or not . |
| 21 | ‘ But my lady , ’ she almost wailed in obvious puzzlement . |
| 22 | Feeling the warm stroke of his fingers , she belatedly tensed in breathless protest . |
| 23 | After that , she never washed in any water but cold water except when she could borrow a steaming kettle from her aunt in order to wash herself piecemeal in the kitchen or the cramped wash-basin in the bathroom . |
| 24 | She recently appeared in Italian Vogue , photographed by Ellen Von Unwerth . |
| 25 | According to anti-trust lawyers , independent of both sides , most successful anti-trust cases involve market shares of over sixty five percent , Irving Sher who recently acted in another aviation anti-trust case says they often last three to five years and cost millions dollars . |
| 26 | Consequently , first thing in the morning when we were all trying to get ready , we constantly got in each other 's way . |
| 27 | Because of our volunteer system and our love of the job I think we always succeeded in this aim . |
| 28 | We then engaged in philosophical discourse , while a servant woman , cringing as she served us , brought a dark drink like tea in earthenware bowls which fitted neatly between Mr White Face 's tusks . |
| 29 | And er another thing that we never did in those school er very very very rarely did a boy erm oh what did we use to call it ? |
| 30 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |