Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun pl] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I voted , I think , if I had a vote that day , I certainly voted in favour of that , and so did members of all groups . |
| 2 | It is significant that there was little overlap between the ducal and Stanley affinities , although some royal officials necessarily had dealings with both lords . |
| 3 | It is significant that there was little overlap between the ducal and Stanley affinities , although some royal officials necessarily had dealings with both lords . |
| 4 | As the result of a planned diversification , they now provide a blend of teacher-training and general education courses with , as yet , a small number of vocationally oriented courses in such areas as business management . |
| 5 | The island no longer gave men without much capital the economic opportunity sometimes to be found on a frontier , where land can be acquired cheaply by anyone prepared to make the great effort needed to clear it and plant the first crops . |
| 6 | He quickly made arrangements for another priest to conduct the funeral . |
| 7 | He further denied claims by former colleagues that he threatened senior staff after leaving the company in 1991 after a year 's employment as manager of its Magherafelt office . |
| 8 | The symptoms , especially noticeable in some spring barleys , range from the odd missing floret to distinctly tapered ears in some wheats where the top and bottom few spikelets have failed to set seed . |
| 9 | They probably needed actresses for that sort of thing — to work in sex-and-violence films . |
| 10 | Howard , which was the ‘ muppet house ’ [ house for women who were disturbed or particularly distressed ] , also had screws on all night . |
| 11 | Almost inevitably , however , day-to-day irritants and culturally blinkered judgements by both sides aggravated the tensions between the two countries even before policy decisions became the source of more substantive disputes . |
| 12 | She could n't afford it , but no matter ; she would make do with her appallingly riddled stockings for another month . |
| 13 | I now faced difficulties on another front . |
| 14 | He did not explain how this latter figure squared with McAteer 's figure of two thousand ; Nationalists and Unionists often threw figures at each other in this way but it was not always clear exactly what they meant . |
| 15 | The more the United States was seen to take the lead — especially at the UN — the better the prospect , so Eisenhower correctly calculated , of preventing yet more harshly worded motions in that forum . |
| 16 | I had been reading in Shelvocke 's Voyages , a day or two before , that , while doubling Cape Horn , they frequently saw albatrosses in that latitude , the largest sort of sea-fowl … |
| 17 | This finding suggests that primary gastric MALT lymphoma forms a continuum with well delineated entities at either end , which have a graded sequence of an increasing amount of large cells . |
| 18 | It is note-worthy that of all Charles 's ministers the one who most forcibly asserted rights of this kind , Pedro Rodriquez Campomanes , was also the one least influenced by ‘ enlightened ’ ideas , which in Spain were very much a foreign , overwhelmingly French , import . |
| 19 | They asked him if he was English , then exchanged looks with each other . |
| 20 | He then selected crews for another attempt the following night and reduced the numbers to the four best navigators . |
| 21 | Brower then offered viceroys to both classes of jays and recorded whether they avoided or pecked at them . |
| 22 | Brower then offered viceroys to both classes of jays and recorded the number of trials in which they avoided the butterflies or pecked at them ; the numbers in the Table give her results . |
| 23 | Mr then gave figures for that operation which totalled fifty three thousand six hundred and thirty eight pounds and fifty five pence . |
| 24 | The parties then wrote letters to each other about a proposed appointment of a surveyor to review the rent . |
| 25 | She obediently played sports in all weathers without complaint . |
| 26 | Sadly , though , the series in Pakistan was marred by umpiring controversy , and a whole day in the Faisalabad Test was lost as Shakoor Rana and Mike Gatting allegedly threw insults at each other after the England captain was warned for incommoding the batsman . |
| 27 | According to Kissinger , ‘ Nixon never forgot courtesies of this kind … ’ |
| 28 | in fact the local paper actually took photographs on that basis , and they grouped them by |
| 29 | We never saw sweets in those days . |
| 30 | How much of a threat this posed to those drapers who themselves furnished funerals is not recorded , but as none appear to have taken legal action , it can only be assumed that they too had dealings with these manufacturers whilst continuing to offer a funeral service to the general public . |