Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was a fact that William and Preston together led to more trouble than Preston alone , or Preston and any combination of other boys . |
| 2 | There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders . |
| 3 | One tall girl with curly hair only hitched for two minutes before a smiling family picked her up . |
| 4 | I tell you in all candour that the option no longer exists , and that , insofar as it ever did exist , it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy , followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step . ’ ? |
| 5 | Social commentators noted that this phenomenon was not new : bright colours and rising skirts apparently went with good times whilst body concealment and drab tones accompanied depression . |
| 6 | erm there is criticism that erm we only went into this war because of oil interests . |
| 7 | Dulles and Admiral Radford later in the same month militantly argued for American intervention if Egypt — equipped with Russian arms — were to attack Israel . |
| 8 | We finally debated at great length whether it would be possible to avoid making explicit reference to the Director . |
| 9 | I just stood on three bits when I come in . |
| 10 | He knew that he always operated at full efficiency when driven by anger ; from now on , he was suddenly sure , he was in control of this bloody conference . |
| 11 | With food around , surfaces should bc as practical as possible : choose flooring which will not show crumbs and can be mopped up easily ; sideboards should bc provided with protective covers if they are not heatproof ; traditional polished tables might look good , but with children around , you may be better off going for a heatproof , scrubbable surface which can be wiped over quickly ; upholstery should be washable ; wallpaper need not be as tough as the vinyl-coated varieties . |
| 12 | Is there anything more peculiar , more idiosyncratic , more circumscribed in these expectations than in those of Pip , or of Dickens himself , towards being a gentleman ? |
| 13 | Other commentators , much more discomfited by these details than their colleagues , have suggested that the storyteller means the birds were flying three feet above the ground when they were caught ! |
| 14 | She still dealt in stolen goods when she got the chance , but the police were less interested in stolen goods than they had been in the more law-abiding times of some years before . |
| 15 | My mother , too , was a science teacher and I was good at science , and I always continued with that line because partly of the family background and partly of my own interests . |
| 16 | The Community Programme also met with some suspicion when it was first introduced by the MSC in the early 1980s but it proved to be a boon for many bureaux to expand their services and broaden their workforce . |
| 17 | This later led to more troubles than they could have expected , but in the 1630s they seemed to be effectively independent . |
| 18 | Bishops then turned up the pressure in a search for an equaliser , and it nearly came on seventy minutes as yet another debut man , Tommy Callanan blasted the ball against the underside of the ball from literally yards out when it was easier to score . |
| 19 | In the beginning , okay believed in and or whatever you wan na call it , but it also believed in other gods as well , except he was the chief god , he was number one god as it were and he 's the one you got to follow . |
| 20 | However , Ancient Society also differed from earlier work because of the high quality of the scholarly work on which it was based , because of the sympathy of the writer for primitives , and because it not only defined stages but in many cases suggested mechanisms which explained why one stage should change to another . |
| 21 | Mr Blair also called for earlier intervention when a police caution has failed so the youngster is subject to strict supervision . |
| 22 | The English Free Church Year Book of 1911 probably spoke for many communions when it said ‘ the truth is — and we must face its startling reality — the educated middle class , especially the young people , are losing touch altogether with the House of God ’ . |
| 23 | Paradoxically , attending courses at the Civil Service College often led to more dissatisfaction when contrasted with the reality of civil service life . |
| 24 | WE often read of uncaring stars so it was a joy to learn that Sophia Loren had bailed out her favourite waiter after he was sacked for taking time off to care for his sick wife . |
| 25 | for instance , much emphasis is placed upon fighting between tribes , which supposedly occurred with great frequency until such conflicts were stopped by the Russians . |
| 26 | Instead of sitting lost in their own thoughts or sleeping , the patients had been stimulated and they now chatted to each other as they recalled the places , the people or the events of the past . |
| 27 | In Salamanca we often smiled at each other as we passed along a street called Street of the Two Poets — or was it a little plaza ? |
| 28 | The former , on my analysis ( infra ) would not attract criminal liability , whereas the latter , on traditional analysis , would be homicide , often categorized in appropriate circumstances as voluntary active euthanasia . |
| 29 | In 1846 he joined the committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society , of which he was president for eighteen years , and immediately came to public attention as principal signer of a set of ‘ resolutions and a memorial [ to MPs ] adopted at a meeting of gentlemen deputed from various parts of the United Kingdom to represent the sentiments of the inhabitants in their respective districts , on the subject of colonial slavery ’ . |
| 30 | The seven-plus immediately came under renewed fire after the results showed just a slight improvement in spelling , reading and maths and a 12 per cent drop in writing skills since the tests were first held last year . |