Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add the koftas and fry until lightly browned on all sides . |
| 2 | A good cook , evidently , though somewhat vulgarized by recent service with an American family who liked bits of pineapple all over things . |
| 3 | Though generally appropriated by humanist criticism as a recognizable origin of itself , nosce teipsum may nevertheless have something crucial in common with the formulations of post-structuralism . |
| 4 | They made their way back , not to the abbey but the castle , Corbett sending ahead one of his escort to ask Wishart for an audience and when they arrived the old , foxy-faced Bishop was waiting for them in his now sweltering chambers , though still swathed in fur-trimmed robes . |
| 5 | From an early stage the pattern was set for a memorable bout as Close jabbed with great conviction , never once taking a backward step and trading punches on an equal basis throughout the fight . |
| 6 | These were swiftly put down and the Glasgow Volunteers , as fine a body of men as ever struggled from one ditch to another , were always ready to spring into action at the drop of a rifle . |
| 7 | It is the foretaste of such strains as never fell on mortal cars , to hear which we should rush to our doors and contribute all that we possess and are . ’ |
| 8 | Some Nonjurors , though never implicated in Jacobite intrigue , nevertheless were committed to the principle of a Stuart restoration — for example the cleric , Jeremy Collier , or the lawyer , Roger North , who had been attorney-general to the Queen in James II 's reign . |
| 9 | Though never used in wet snow ( in short supply last winter ) a wet day on Pennine peat is a fair substitute and I stayed bone dry , as expected |
| 10 | A schema of this kind is applicable to every type of society , and one particularly interesting question which it suggests is whether there may also be contradictions in socialist society ; that is to say , in such societies , claiming to be socialist , as actually existed in Eastern Europe , and could be studied in the world today , not in some imagined future condition of things where complete social harmony would prevail by definition . |