Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [art] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | His quarry might not be back yet , or perhaps the bell was n't working . |
| 2 | After a year or so the rope was taken up from the lower floors and wound on to a cleat on the top storey . |
| 3 | It was the paralysis which caused her death in the end , or so the doctor was to certify ; she died there in the workhouse , aged 70 , on 12 September 1849 . |
| 4 | If during this period breath hydrogen increased by 100% or more the test was considered abnormal . |
| 5 | Or maybe the pinkie was skragged as a trophy ? |
| 6 | Or maybe the landscape was his mirror , and he was just seeing himself . |
| 7 | Or maybe they were more aroused because of the flashing light , or maybe the light was affecting their visual system in some way . |
| 8 | Commonly not exceeding a couple of pounds , the church stock reached an exceptional £7. 6s. at Waddesdon , Bucks. , though as often as not it was nil , or else no figure was given , some certificates consistently omitting it . |
| 9 | Either things came out too harshly , heavy , muddy and dull — Mauve called it his ‘ yellow-soap style ’ — or else the tenderness was n't tender enough . |
| 10 | Or else the Devil was there , that particular night , sitting with him . ’ |
| 11 | For thirty minutes he pressed the horse hard , always hoping that his flight would persuade the Dragoons to abandon their pursuit , but the Frenchmen were stubborn , or else the chase was a welcome break in their day 's tedium . |
| 12 | or else the barrow was not searched fully , |
| 13 | And without such plea , none of the background to the case to which we have briefly alluded can ever be placed before the jury : the only issues arising would be whether or no the publication was defamatory and , if so , what should the damages be . |
| 14 | Nobody was hurt and luckily a picture was taken of the offender who is being actively sought . |
| 15 | Kewlany was put back into his tunnel and eventually the vein was cut after 70 fathoms 210 ft. further in than the original calculation and much further than the second estimate based on an 18 inch inclination in every 6 feet . |
| 16 | A Welsh translation was soon published by John Cassell and eventually the book was translated into all the major European languages . |
| 17 | However , Nyerere was said to be personally opposed to this kind of personality cult , and eventually the policy was changed . |
| 18 | We did a few vocals and overdubs and eventually the album was mixed bar one track , which he did somewhere else . |
| 19 | The complex folds introduced by Augustus were simplified in succeeding centuries , and eventually the toga was evidently only worn on formal occasions . |
| 20 | Well , the city was n't a nice place to live because of all the silly laws the merchant had passed , and people started to leave it and go to other towns and other countries , and the merchant was spending so much time passing new laws and trying to make people obey the ones he 'd already passed that his own business started to fail , and eventually the city was almost deserted , and the merchant found that he owed people much more money than he had in the bank , and even though he sold his house and everything he owned he was still broke ; he was thrown out of his house and out of the city too , because he had become a beggar , and beggars were n't allowed in the city . |
| 21 | The lamps in the cressets gave out the scent of perfumed oil , and somewhere a lutenist was playing quietly . |
| 22 | But that day his mother had suddenly flown a warning flight , while his father rose into the air and swooped into the valley and back beneath the cliff edge , and suddenly a man was there with something green in his hand which rose into the sky above him and came down towards him . |
| 23 | That gave her a severe jolt , and suddenly the night was fraught with hidden nuances . |
| 24 | She nodded rapturously , and suddenly the night was beautiful and the moon shone brighter than it ever had before . |
| 25 | I told him that I was and suddenly the ice was broken . |
| 26 | And suddenly the devil was in his eyes and in his smile . |
| 27 | Local businesses jumped on the bandwagon and suddenly the project was up and running . |
| 28 | SHE teetered on to the vast Playhouse stage and into the Pointer Sisters hit I 'm So Excited — and suddenly the audience was too . |
| 29 | Law had indeed already done enough as leader to make his departure unthinkable and so a memorial was drawn up by Carson and signed by almost all the party 's backbenchers , stating full confidence in Law and begging him to stay on with a revised tariff policy . |
| 30 | Unlike the laws of menstruation and childbirth , it had never been as intimately linked to cultic activity/purity and so no recasting was required following the events of 70 AD . |