Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheila only came to two more group meetings . |
| 2 | In fact , about the only contact Edward ever had with other people 's flesh was when the school maids , and then their friends from round about , began to share their sexual favours with him . |
| 3 | Relations with the United States also improved during 1990 . |
| 4 | Gorbachev also called for international regulation to protect zones with a " unique place in nature " , especially the Antarctic . |
| 5 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |
| 6 | 13 1 ) that a man from Sybaris and another from Siris , both Italian towns , were among Agariste 's suitors at Sikyon ; and some of the poets patronized by the western Greeks had experience of mainland monarchy — Pindar and Simonides both wrote for Sicilian patrons : Pindar composed the Tenth Pythian , his earliest poem , for the Thessalian Thorax of Larisa , and Simonides had been patronized by Polykrates of Samos and Pisistratus of Athens in turn . |
| 7 | The hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire also referred to cold weather payments . |
| 8 | Penny almost forgot about poor Kelpie during Pow-wow , for Brownie Owl had some rather startling news for the Pack . |
| 9 | Toby certainly looked in better shape than when I last saw him , but these things are comparative . |
| 10 | Walter Brennan never gargled with methylated spirits , or wore the same ragged T-shirts for months on end , or slept in a cardboard cocoon in a condemned house , or bothered young women on the subway . |
| 11 | The second point is is to echo the er the words that Matt just said about that lady who was converted . |
| 12 | ‘ It is your duty , girls , to make your new colleagues feel at home here , ’ ' Portia suddenly said in stentorian tones which made Marie-Hélène burst out in giggles . |
| 13 | During the pre-Campaign Wave , visits by Thatcher to Moscow and Kinnock to Washington naturally led to intense television coverage of defence issues . |
| 14 | Interestingly , it has been argued that within the Soviet Union itself the key date in terms of the development of socialist realism was not 1934 but 1936 , the moment at which Stalin finally acceded to full power , the moment of the Stalinist " purges " , the moment when the " nationalist " theses of Zhdanov came to the fore , coinciding with Stalin 's own preferred thesis of " socialism in one country " . |
| 15 | PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino yesterday called for tough sentences against coup leaders while the military launched a big manhunt to track down those still at large . |
| 16 | It is impossible to say precisely how much of England still lay in open field in 1700 or thereabouts , but one can make a rough estimate . |
| 17 | The last wicket fell at 450 , whereupon England promptly collapsed to 32 for 3 . |
| 18 | But Scotland also suffered from internal religious differences , and from the effects of the Navigation Acts after 1660 that cut her off from a good deal of overseas trade . |
| 19 | Very small farms in the east of England also suffered from low income during the same period . |
| 20 | In a move calculated to bring a return to the opposition 's extra-parliamentary politics of the past , Kim also called for mass anti-government rallies throughout the country . |
| 21 | IBM also moved into new fields through various alliances with small insurgent innovators . |
| 22 | Assad also hinted at further economic liberalization , promising a government statement on future economic policy . |
| 23 | If Jennens thought that Leapor had a future as a poet , Leapor also relied on this woman 's criticism and encouragement . |
| 24 | The first neolithic settlers on the site of Knossos probably lived in wooden huts , of which only the post-holes survive in the archaeological record . |
| 25 | But Russia also suffered from severe disadvantages . |
| 26 | In the 1970s Portugal and Spain both emerged from long periods of dictatorship and established parliamentary-electoral systems with remarkable smoothness . |
| 27 | Tina immediately burst into noisy tears and ran off wailing ‘ Mom — she said that word to me again ! ’ |
| 28 | Later in 1934 , Brunner published a polemical tract against Barth entitled Nature and Grace , to which Barth immediately replied with characteristic vigour in No ! |
| 29 | Unfortunately , Olaf died c.1022 , to be succeeded by his son Anund Jacob , and Cnut 's position in Denmark subsequently came under serious threat . |
| 30 | Mr Bangemann explicitly appealed to other European leaders not to suggest that German reunification was an immediate political issue or one which could be decided without dramatic changes in the political and security situation in Europe as a whole . |