Example sentences of "[coord] [ex0] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , his new found wealth was also his undoing for he began to think too much and there came a night when , awash to the hack teeth , he boasted of his unholy aide . |
| 2 | Then the ground beneath their feet began to vibrate , and there came a noise like thunder — but internal , suppressed , terrifying thunder , the sound of a primeval , subterranean god raging against his confinement . |
| 3 | They struck up a relationship and there came a point at which they were in conversation with prostitutes . |
| 4 | I found that they were engaged in retailing rather heavy jokes ; and there came a point when Eliot , feeling perhaps that he ought to contribute , embarked upon a rather long story about George V. It ran somewhat as follows . |
| 5 | The months passed and there came a week when the purple flowers of the heather took over the moorland slopes and brought with it the sense at last of autumn , a time he loved . |
| 6 | She did find an Italian restaurant a couple of blocks away to dine in , however , and there made a point of drinking enough chianti to ensure a good night 's sleep , which her plans for the following day suggested she would need . |
| 7 | Later , under the influence of the Communist Party , this attitude changed and there began a movement for unity and common action . " |
| 8 | At twelve o'clock the class was dismissed , and there followed a rush for the toilets and ablutions . |
| 9 | And there followed a paragraph in smaller script : ‘ Derived by the inductive method from studies of the lives of famous and infamous men and women , past and present , and including a new Universal Alphabet which disposes of the conflict between the ‘ Hebrew ’ and the ‘ Modern ’ systems . ’ |
| 10 | The Royalists and the Presbyterians formed an alliance and there followed a power struggle with the ‘ Republicans ’ who were against the restoration of the King . |
| 11 | In fact they succeeded and there followed a sequence of events that has never been thoroughly recorded in full detail , though Stillman Drake has done his best . |
| 12 | The son who was born in 1511 , lived only six weeks and there followed a succession of miscarriages and still-births , so Henry VIII convinced himself that God was punishing him for marrying his late brother 's widow , so he sought the Popes annulment of the marriage . |
| 13 | The heading ( on the receipts side of the ledger ) read : ‘ Subscribed by gentlemen outside the parish for a pavilion and for the outfit of the club ’ , and there followed a list ( headed by the local member of parliament ) of men described as ‘ Esqre ’ , ‘ Mr ’ , and in several cases no prefix at all — merely surname and initial . |
| 14 | In 1903 David Howard succeeded his father as chairman and there followed a period of rapid growth . |
| 15 | The door opened , and there stood a boy of about ten , chewing gum and gawping . |
| 16 | Conchis led me a little way to a deep fissure between two boulders , and there suspended a piece of white cloth on the end of a line . |
| 17 | Word of this apparently reached the latter , who , offended , refused to attend the feast , boarded a ship for Bursa , and there built a medrese where he taught . |
| 18 | During the short period of political troubles between the Old and Middle Kingdoms solar and Osirian ideas of the afterlife were to some extent merged and there occurred a democratisation in funerary beliefs . |
| 19 | From the village of ACHURCH in 1633 Edmund and Judith Quincy travelled to America and there founded a family and named the town of Quincy , Massachusetts . |
| 20 | But there came a time when that struggle could no longer increase life enjoyment as far as the adult population was concerned . |
| 21 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 22 | But there came a point when beautiful stories and analogies wore thin . |
| 23 | They all condemned what had happened to Hector , but there grew a feeling that well , it was only natural for a strong young man to be ambitious … |