Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [coord] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 DESPITE consistently pool weather and a frightening episode in which they were avalanched in their tents , two members of a british expedition have made the first ascent of the South Face of Thalay Sagar , one of the most attempted and failed on mountains in the Indian Charwal Hamalayas .
2 The HRD practitioner should stress that this statement is not a list of short-term objectives and should monitor the writing process carefully to ensure that the statement is sufficiently detailed and focused on behavior .
3 Which meant if I did it in year three , which I 'd liked to , then you 'd obviously equal or went into drama .
4 Wittgenstein , Ludwig ( 1890–1981 ) One of the most brilliant of twentieth century philosophers , Wittgenstein was destined to be one of the most quoted and misquoted by theologians .
5 The islands , which were largely uninhabited and ranged in size from 20 to 80 hectares , were among the smallest of Greece 's approximately 3,700 islands .
6 Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort .
7 Lord Taylor said the assaults on Donna King aged twenty six were not carried out in rage , they were coolly deliberate and inflicted by way of punishment .
8 More recently the roach seemed to disappear , the bream , tench and carp became more prevalent and grew onto specimen size .
9 Sales of land began about 1540 and continued until Stuart times .
10 The best Guide Book was written by Thomas West , who was born in about 1717 and went to school in Edinburgh .
11 At other times the Dragon Princes ride to war on mighty Elven steeds fully armoured and caparisoned as dragons .
12 I think of when I was very small and lived in New York .
13 She soon became very drunk and forgot about mankind , so they were saved from destruction .
14 He was looking very hot and flushed in woodwork just now , and I sent him along to Mrs C. She took his temperature — about the only thing she can do — and sent him to bed . ’
15 The straight kind was very boring and stayed in batteries .
16 They are very aware and sensitized to muggers , football hooligans , street vandals , housebreakers , thieves , terrorists , and scroungers .
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