Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DIPLOMATIC niceties have been exploited to the utmost during the continuing occupation by would-be East German emigrants of the West German embassy in Prague , where a West German diplomat yesterday intervened dramatically to add to the number of new arrivals inside . |
| 2 | The burglar also tried unsuccessfully to break into the house and smashed a double glazed window . |
| 3 | In this action Leftwich was well ahead of his time , as Norwegian ice later became widely used for refrigeration during the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Things seem to be a bit more relaxed here compared with Sian , where we were shepherded around with great ceremony , had to make formal speeches etc. , and attracted crowds of astonished bystanders whenever we appeared in public . |
| 5 | WHILE the East German leadership yesterday remained defiantly committed to another Tiananmen Square if need be , local party officials increasingly called for openness and dialogue with the opposition . |
| 6 | Indeed , by April 15 the number of mines affected by the strike nationwide had actually risen to 163 , and at the end of April the strike was still holding in most of those mines . |
| 7 | Hanoverian Whiggery also became more divorced from association with the cause of Dissent . |
| 8 | The issue of German military involvement abroad became slightly blurred in late April when a total of 750 Bundeswehr troops were sent to Iran to build camps for Kurdish refugees [ see pp. 38127-28 ] . |
| 9 | The tsarist threat receded in 1867 , when Russia sold Alaska to the United States , and the doctrine subsequently became better known for its challenge to the perceived intention of the European Holy Alliance to help Spain reconquer its former colonies . |
| 10 | The wedding party still seemed happily merged with the convention , and , without having any choice in the matter , Ellie was absorbed into the friendly crowd . |
| 11 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |