Example sentences of "it probably [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Water-mills have been identified elsewhere notably on Hadrian 's Wall and at Ickham in Kent , where it probably lay on an estate near Canterbury . |
| 2 | We read ‘ Glory in the church ’ ; it 's a phrase that ca n't be found elsewhere in the New Testament ; when the Ephesian Christians heard that phrase when the letter was read out , it probably came as a great surprise . |
| 3 | Cairns-Smith 's view of the DNA/protein machinery is that it probably came into existence relatively recently , perhaps as recently as three billion years ago . |
| 4 | Er , it probably came into fashion in the , something like the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | It probably came in the post but I do n't know where from . |
| 6 | ‘ Sorry , but if there was a vehicle involved it probably came from there . |
| 7 | There is some mystery about the origin of the stock dove 's name , but it probably came from the habit of nesting in the stocks or trunks of trees . |
| 8 | At his death Burghley 's silver and gold plate was worth £14,000–£15,000 ; much of it probably came from gifts made by aspirants for favour . |
| 9 | A good deal of it probably went via Dursley where the manufacture of cards was an important trade . |
| 10 | It probably grew to the status of a town with special civic privileges during the Roman occupation , and seems to have survived well into the Saxon period . |
| 11 | Although it probably began as a lung , over the course of evolution it has become the swimbladder , an ingenious device with which the fish maintains itself as a hydrostat in permanent equilibrium . |
| 12 | It probably began after the birth of my daughter , Sophie , 11 years ago . |
| 13 | So if Mains ' lean face did begin to take on a grey and grim hue it probably began in 1972 when the All Black selectors began shuffling around their fullbacks , with Mains conspicuously absent . |
| 14 | The complex , sometimes obscure series certainly was provocative , as it probably meant to be , waking the Chinese people up to harsh realities . |
| 15 | To H. C. Wyld , for example — surely the best historian of English — it probably seemed to be common sense to believe that RP was the most important accent of Modern English , and that a historical account of English pronunciation should therefore be , in effect , a history of RP . |
| 16 | In 1779 it was the more radical of the parliamentary reformers and in 1790 it probably told against supporters of the third effort to do away with religious tests that they tried such unconventional methods . |
| 17 | Although at first TANU was at a disadvantage in not having its own daily paper , it probably benefited from the publicity , albeit negative , given by the Government press . |
| 18 | It probably failed for the Mixed Fours were re-introduced as a trial in 1960 and reintroduced yet again in 1974 largely on the initiative of Valerie Wormwald the then Ladies ' Captain . |
| 19 | As early as 14 September 1939 , Jonas Barrington in the Daily Express described this voice that called from Germany , though in the first instance it probably belonged to Norman Baillie-Stewart : ‘ He speaks English of the haw-haw , dammit-get-out-of-my-way-variety , and his strong suit is gentlemanly indignation . ’ |
| 20 | It was a clever wheeze , great fun to work , and it probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat . |
| 21 | It was borne upon us pretty quickly that the interested watchers were wearing air force blue , and that from the distance it probably looked to them as if we were all stark naked . |
| 22 | Unfortunately only wildly out-of-focus pictures exist of Darlington 's first fountain , so a little bit of artistic licence has had to be employed to show what it probably looked like . |
| 23 | There is some confusion as to the exact origins of the first Apprenticeship and Skilled Employment Committee , but it probably derived from the activities of the Charity Organization Society ( COS ) in assisting women and girls to find skilled occupations . |
| 24 | Ground-floor plan of Coleridge 's cottage as it probably appeared in 1797–8 . |
| 25 | Black mustard is the one with the best and most pungent flavour , and has become naturalized in Britain and America , though it probably originated in the Middle East . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the actual origin of the mechanical clock remains a mystery , although it probably occurred towards the end of the thirteenth century . |
| 27 | Here it probably happened by sailing into the steep wave resulting in a sudden loss of speed . |