Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former met rarely and for purely formal purposes . |
| 2 | Treaty if they arose expressly or by necessary implication . |
| 3 | In any event , the proposal came close to being passed , and failed only because of last year 's legislative jam-up , Helping it along were the customary health-lobbying tactics , such as having Senator Barry Goldwater , still recuperating from a double hip-joint replacement , hobble into a hearing room on crutches to testify on behalf of the proposed institute . |
| 4 | However , things recovered somewhat and in 1970 the Club was back into a sound bar profit . |
| 5 | After lunch , between the morning ride and the afternoon expedition , she read aloud and in the evenings she enjoyed playing cards and various acting and paper games . |
| 6 | Dicey lived during a period of great political and economic change , a period in which the range and the functions of government expanded greatly and in which legislation was used explicitly as a method of changing social conditions . |
| 7 | Owen realized suddenly that like her mistress she was old . |
| 8 | The sky had now stripped back to blue as he entered slowly and with a surge of pleasure into the cut of Buttermere . |
| 9 | Between roaring fire and loaded table Salt moved grimly and with great determination , roasting , baking , conjuring such delectable smells that Jess kept having to swallow the saliva that filled her mouth . |
| 10 | The number of placements and registrations rose so that in 1913 , 74,535 boys and 54,206 girls aged between 14 and 17 filled labour exchange vacancies and the number registering was 137,668 and 115,171 respectively . |
| 11 | Quite recently Sergt.-Pilot Dunbell [ sic ] Smith visited Halfway while on leave . |
| 12 | His eyes narrowed thoughtfully and to her surprise and confusion he suddenly sat beside her on the settee , turning to her and looking at her closely , his gaze roaming over her flushed and beautiful face . |
| 13 | ‘ The child peered inside and with an expression of profound disdain stamped the scorpions to death with his bare feet . ’ |
| 14 | The benefits associated with the action areas will be evaluated and reported individually and in aggregate . |
| 15 | I moved backwards and by standing on the low wall that bordered the towering yew hedge , I gained a level view of the kitchen . |
| 16 | One quality which that work has in abundance is the Beowulfian ‘ impression of depth ’ , created just as in the old epic by songs and digressions like Aragorn 's lay of Tinúviel , Sam Gamgee 's allusions to the Silmaril and the Iron Crown , Elrond 's account of Celebrimbor , and dozens more . |
| 17 | Both were happening and enough English people came to live in sufficient comfort to maintain the demand for manufactured goods through the eighteenth century , even though food prices rose steeply and in sharp contrast to the deep and widespread poverty of much of the labouring population . |
| 18 | Apart from calling Blum ‘ the most dangerous man in Indo-China ’ de Lattre complained of all the ‘ missionary young men ’ the US was sending to Vietnam , of the way in which they undermined the idea of the French Union and , as he obviously had time to read the reports as soon as they were sent , he objected strenuously and in person to US correspondents who did not share his more exalted view of France 's mission in Indo-China . |
| 19 | A bitter wind scurried among the branches of the trees that rose above and behind the stark line of old-fashioned eagle cages . |
| 20 | California was struck and sank quickly and by 0825 six o f the battleships were either sunk , sinking or badly damaged . |
| 21 | THE PARENTS of runaway schoolgirl Nicola Rogers said today their daughter told them she fled home because of worries about starting a new school . |
| 22 | The figures for black youngsters excluded indefinitely and for a fixed period were also above average . |
| 23 | ‘ Never write an angry letter ! ’ he exclaimed decisively and by way of offering advice to us all . |
| 24 | He married Alice Brooke of Shropshire and had at least three sons and two daughters , all of them involved directly or by marriage in London commerce . |
| 25 | His eyes narrowed dangerously and for a split-second Polly held her breath . |
| 26 | During the Renaissance , for example , it surfaced repeatedly albeit in somewhat garbled form . |
| 27 | The Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 , which has almost entirely replaced the Matrimonial Homes Act 1967 which introduced the Class F Land Charge , gives a spouse who is not entitled to occupy a dwelling house by virtue of a beneficial estate or interest or contract , the right ( if in occupation ) not to be evicted or excluded therefrom except by order of the court and the right ( if not in occupation ) with the leave of the court to enter into and occupy the dwelling house . |
| 28 | in the top flat , they , they were rehoused in a flat in a block of mansion flats and when I came out of the army this was the accommodation I found available , er for me and I objected strongly and after a great deal of fuss erm the Islington Borough Council 's Housing Department found us rooms on the first floor in a Victoria Victorian villa in Penventon Gardens , which erm , were comfortable |
| 29 | Sandra explains : ‘ We moved here because of the rural location and we love walking in the Welsh mountains . |
| 30 | Learning through the use of words , e.g. speech , writing , formulae , used singly or in combination for discussion , presentation of seminars , projects , essays etc . |