Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so Topaz went to Carlton House and , when the heat of summer came , she and Oswin went to Brighton , following the Regent 's train to a mini-season at that most desirable resort . |
| 2 | Apparently only signalling fell outside Darlington 's province . |
| 3 | The usual 'flu stiffness and aching in the muscles did n't go away as it should have done , so Father sent for Dr Allott , our family physician , a patient , gentle old man who always arrived in an Essex sedan and — more important to us — always carried a pocketful of toffees to give away to children . |
| 4 | Noreens only reassurance lay in Gerry . |
| 5 | So Grandad stuck to tea , and the occasional mug of Bovril when the weather was bad . |
| 6 | Not mov 'd by Sorrow , Sickness , or by Age |
| 7 | The land held in reserve in Richmondshire 's case is not just land held in reserve for existing firms to expand on , but also includes three sites which are identified in this document as being reserved for development after two thousand and one , between two thousand and one and two thousand and six . |
| 8 | This placed an increasing pressure on the exchange rate causing a loss of reserves and the exhaustion of the American loan which burst into a massive drain once convertibility came into operation in July . |
| 9 | The two men died as this pick up truck burst into flames . |
| 10 | Seconds later sunlight flashed on metal and the aircraft appeared in the skies above them . |
| 11 | Well internment worked in Aden and Palestine and Cyprus , internment worked there . |
| 12 | In these declivities the ambushers must have hidden , for here battle raged amid yells and screams and the clash of steel . |
| 13 | Oh well father came from Horley , Suffolk and he he went as a grave-digger |
| 14 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 15 | Even phonology seemed worth while now , whispering the sounds of time into the very material that poets used , the vowels jealously mutating , angrily fracturing as consonant groups shifted to their conditioned cues in wild adenoidal ecstasies . |
| 16 | Fortunately help came in time on that particular day . |
| 17 | Then Nu went to India to the Buddhist centre , Bodh-Gaya , near Patna . |
| 18 | Proud until I took the tools from the display card and then pride turned to disappointment for I had expected that the tools would be scaled down versions of Dad 's but the saw was just a piece of tin stamped out — it would n't cut paper and the hammer was similarly made . |
| 19 | There could hardly be more fundamental mysteries than the reasons why the Universe came into existence , how life began on planet Earth , and so on . |
| 20 | Then Mother went to bed for two days , and the children wondered if the world was coming to an end . |
| 21 | Here is a short account of how death came in February 1838 to Todmorden Hall , an old house already darkened by the smoke of a growing industrial town on the border of Yorkshire and Lancashire ; the diarist is Judith Holt , sister of the dead mistress of the Hall : |
| 22 | Averages eased but more sheep were sold at the Suffolk Sheep Society 's national show and sale at Stoneleigh last week when bidding peaked at 5600gns on a trade where selectivity was the order of the day . |
| 23 | I too am made tearful for those dear dead days beyond recall when bread tasted like bread and lawns were always newly mown and ladies smelled of candied violets . |
| 24 | Quick line-out can be taken behind where ball went into touch . |
| 25 | Spring Ram more than halved to 63.5p after forecasting a 28 per cent drop in profits to £26 million , with 25 million shares changing hands when trading resumed after Tuesday 's suspension . |
| 26 | And over the 13 elections since 1945 , when polling began with Gallup correctly predicting a Labour victory , the average error per party was 1.4 per cent . |
| 27 | HOPES of a rapid economic recovery were dealt another blow yesterday when unemployment rose to 2.7m for the first time in almost five years . |
| 28 | Recent examples where advertising proved worth while are the Benzodiazepine claims and the Myodil litigation . |
| 29 | There was even a British-built bass called the Wyman , which became the Stinger IV when production moved to Italy . |
| 30 | This Victorian advertisement claims that Carminative Cordial tin which Dad had so much faith ) ‘ saved the lives of many , especially during the time when cholera raged in Salisbury ’ ( 1849 ) . |