Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [det] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He obviously expected some sort of reaction . |
| 2 | Because they saw the Pope as the Antichrist of the Book of Revelation and the Roman Catholics as apostates , they fiercely attacked all Church of England rites and ceremonies which followed those of Rome , including its set prayers , its administration of the Sacraments , the use of altars instead of tables , its celebrations of saints ' days , its music and its vestments . |
| 3 | But he impatiently dismissed this line of thought . |
| 4 | In the final confrontation Jaq and Grey Knights had fought through savage ranks of cultists who all showed some mark of Chaos — a tentacle , a sting , tendrils instead of hair , suckers , claws ; through to the warlock of the coven ensconced deep within the caverns where young captives whimpered piteously in cages . |
| 5 | I very much enjoyed this change of life , especially the 15 a week , of which I was allowed to keep half-a-crown . |
| 6 | The Government of New South Wales apparently took this finding into consideration in deciding to abolish the immunity . |
| 7 | The assistants not only preferred these sorts of activities but also felt that they were the ones most helpful to both child and teacher . |
| 8 | So did each sheet of lavatory paper which the teacher gave them if they asked , and the box of wax tapers for lighting the gas mantle . |
| 9 | In addition , he only considered those operations in terms of deterrence , and ignored such vital factors as the practical ( as well as the moral ) consequences of abandoning retributive justice . |
| 10 | Without mentioning it to me Mother effectively torpedoed this submarine of rumour by putting it about that Mr Broadhurst was my guardian . |
| 11 | I soon met another neighbour of Sir Henry 's . |
| 12 | I think possibly it needs something just to break up this , sort of , the lines , you just got those bands of waves going across there . |
| 13 | But Leopold soon found another source of grievance — the fact that Wolfgang had lied to him over the money he had earned . |
| 14 | I ALREADY reviewed this back in July but now that it 's finally been given a British release ‘ Perfect Day ’ will , in time , be seen as a perfect moment from MFS 's classic period , alongside excursions from Cosmic Baby , Microglobe and Mind Gear . |
| 15 | Well I could n't see anything , er because there was a lot of cloud , and then I just heard this sort of bang , and then it was just silent . |
| 16 | I no longer saw any warmth in numbers . |
| 17 | At that time I already knew most species of birds that occurred in my village , at least a hundred . |
| 18 | No do n't come up I 'll slide this down it 's not very heavy , I just put some bits of stuff in , it 's not terribly heavy |
| 19 | She thus had little use for cinema which gave great weight to symbolism , and unfavourably contrasted symbolist poetry to the work of poets like Ezra Pound whose world operated , not through meaning , but through the ‘ direct impact of words ’ . |
| 20 | It had all put her in Glyn 's power somehow and she no longer had that feeling of independence she had fought so hard to gain . |
| 21 | Her expression showed that she no longer had any time for jokes . |
| 22 | By the time the polytechnics were formally designated ( the first provisional designation of eighteen polytechnics was announced in May 1968 and the designations continued into the early 1970s ) , the CNAA already had several years of experience of validation procedures , of evaluating the quality of courses and their institutional environments . |
| 23 | His ‘ pre-verbal ’ concept of the self could only be predicated of beings who already had some grasp of language . |
| 24 | Debacles elsewhere pushed more money into utilities , which are believed to benefit from low interest rates , at least in the short term . |
| 25 | To have asked him to be a godfather had crossed my mind ; but I knew that he already held this office in plurality . |
| 26 | He still made some shows of aggression , but more as a dangerous game than with wicked intent . |
| 27 | ‘ The sex object , ’ quipped Maria , a sweet clenching sensation assailing her loins as she reflected on the helplessness of her response to his torrid lovemaking , resentment rising a second later because she still lacked any semblance of control over their relationship . |
| 28 | In class terms the peasants were identified as part of the rural petty bourgeoisie : generally speaking , not members of the proletariat because they usually owned some means of production to support themselves . |
| 29 | It did n't last long because we were back in the boardroom by now , and he quickly got another glass of champagne into his clutches . |
| 30 | Irrespective of any causal link , the additional personnel in joint assessments presumably comprised men who elsewhere would have been returned as wage earners or young and poor , but except in Kerrier , where it led to 880 native assessments comprehending as many as 1,179 individuals , it did not add greatly to the numbers of poorer men ; and if it tends to raise the true proportion to a clear quarter in a couple of hundreds , it hardly made any difference in West and Trigg . |