Example sentences of "[coord] soon [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The real researchers found themselves as restricted as the employed technicians , and soon left in frustration .
2 Mr. Mahmoud was not a satisfactory tenant and soon fell into arrears with the rent .
3 At the impressionable age of fourteen she spent twelve days in Geneva , and soon fell under Malan 's spell :
4 One 's heart bled for Cowdrey , for he looked desperately nervous and soon succumbed without scoring .
5 From here we carried on along a river and soon arrived at Sokol which has just one house — a traditional forester 's cabin with deer antlers above the front door .
6 French engineers , facing similar difficulties of a wartime investment backlog ( but , significantly , steel prices which reflected real shortages ) , based more of their immediate postwar programme on sets of 100MW and above , and soon standardised on 125MW sets ( the first of which , with re-heat , was commissioned in 1955 , three years before the BEA 's first 120MW re-heat set ) .
7 After the establishment by the Viet Minh of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( DRV ) in the north in 1945 , he was dispatched to the South during the war against the French in the early 1950s , but soon returned to Hanoi and to a place in the Communist Party politburo , Vietnam having meanwhile , in 1954 , been partitioned into two military zones , with DRV forces in the north and French forces in the south .
8 There was a scientific hiatus and it took the Butt Report and the prodding of the C-in-C to trigger off an effort in this direction , GEE was an excellent start , but soon negated by jamming .
9 Halcyon barley came in at 24% moisture initially , but soon dropped to 19% .
10 They started to work out the answers mentally , but soon resorted to calculators .
11 Swinderby was freed , but prohibited from further preaching without licence ; he returned to Leicester briefly but soon left for Coventry .
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