Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now he would be in the train , the 17.20 , that got to Chelmsford just after ten to six . |
| 2 | By the time of his death in 1227 , Genghiz ruled over an empire that stretched from Persia across to China . |
| 3 | A moment passed ; then it came again — a thin , high-pitched cry that sounded to Deborah just like ‘ Help ! |
| 4 | It was not a ‘ brilliant ’ movie ; the script was flawed and the premise was suspect , but the underlying presence that Fonda , Hopper and Nicholson caught , perhaps without even realizing it , was an air of tension that prevailed among youth right across the world in 1969 . |
| 5 | Monnet himself seemed to be rather more cautious about going too fast too quickly , and seemed to hanker still for sectoral integration in the first instance , especially in the developing field of nuclear energy , as a strategy which stood a better chance of succeeding in the short term . |
| 6 | In 1940 he married Rose Paul-Schiff , a Viennese , whose family was connected with the banking firm of Warburg Schiff and came to England just before the Anschluss . |
| 7 | Once , when I was hand-feeding peanuts to six badgers at a sett in the east of England that had been watched and provisioned with food regularly for more than 30 years , the badgers were scared off merely by a distant snapping twig and the far-off murmur of voices . |
| 8 | She turned now and glanced towards Millie again before hurrying from the yard . |
| 9 | The plan left Amman , Jordan 's capital , just after midnight and landed at Gatwick shortly before eight this morning ; on board 57 Britons , 29 Americans , 4 Australians and 2 Canadians . |
| 10 | They were slaves in Anglo-Saxon England and survived in Italy well into the nineteenth century , singing castrato roles in opera as well as in the Vatican Sistine choir . |
| 11 | After arresting the launch we took off six illegal immigrants and proceeded to Ramsgate together with Spring Flight . |
| 12 | Detective-Constable Barnes , large , rustic , intelligent and benign , put down his spade and went to work lovingly with a soft brush on the exposed uprights of the flue , whisking away loose , moist soil that abandoned its hold with revealing readiness . |
| 13 | I took a sleeping-pill and went to bed straight after supper . |
| 14 | His thoughts , when they finally came , had been uttered in all their simplistic banality , in no particular order of logic or relevance , and in a curiously gentle voice punctuated by long pauses in which he had gazed thoughtfully at the throne and appeared to commune happily with some inner presence . |
| 15 | Myc92- , Myc73- and Max72-encoding DNA fragments were generated by PCR and subcloned in frame downstream of VP16 or SRF412 ( residues 1–412 of SRF ) in vectors pSD.06a and pSD.08 , respectively . |
| 16 | Pascoe took this in , turned and ran past Dalziel again without a word . |
| 17 | Micky Garland crashed on landing , and journeyed to Hal Far as a passenger aboard the Wimpey . |
| 18 | The man had started indecently assaulting his daughter when she was 13 , and progressed to intercourse shortly after her 15th birthday . |
| 19 | Seventeen year old Sharon Ferns and Kenneth Honer aged twenty six , died when their car overturned and burst into flames early on Friday morning in the village of Berinsfield . |
| 20 | THE parents of a young Liverpool paratrooper killed by an IRA landmine defied advice and travelled to Ulster yesterday for their son 's inquest . |
| 21 | Mrs Molesworth spent the next four years in France and Germany , but returned to England permanently in 1883 . |
| 22 | They had been given separate rooms , of course , but liked to gas late into the night , and dress together , and compare clothes and hair and notes . |
| 23 | As an example it gives the ‘ extreme case ’ of chalk areas once downland but converted to cereals mainly in the 1960s and 1970s which , if returned to unfertilised grassland , would reduce nitrate to 50 mg/litre only after 2040 . |