Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 2 | All of them eventually died of cardiac failure without the return to normal bowel function . |
| 3 | Nothing apparently happened for two months after the Institute 's delegation . |
| 4 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 5 | The actual process of putting them together proved to be an awful lot more difficult than we first thought . |
| 6 | Derive an expression for the magnetic field H at a point P distant a from the centre line of a long thin conducting strip of width b ( Fig. 3.19 ) which carries a longitudinal current I uniformly distributed across its section . |
| 7 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 8 | Er , and I got up and I protested about it , on the grounds that if they could n't run a great big pop hall for , and I wholly agreed with the idea , of of them providing the facility . |
| 9 | It is well known that I disliked what was in the first three-year letter of intent , but I wholly approved of the principle . |
| 10 | I began Chapter 4 by contrasting two views of physics , which I loosely characterized as the instrumental and expressive view . |
| 11 | I rarely got beyond this point in my sales patter before expressions of incredulity replaced polite interest . |
| 12 | ‘ I rarely used to Hasselblad . |
| 13 | So next day I duly went to the synagogue , rather self-conscious in my trilby hat , surprised to find women sitting in the gallery only , much impressed with the singing of the cantor and the blowing of the ram 's horn , and a little taken aback by the quick exit at the end of the fast , presumably to get back home for the first square meal of the day . |
| 14 | Although I duly applied for the Fellowship , I was unsuccessful , no doubt to my lasting benefit , as similar failures have served to prove . |
| 15 | In February 1940 at the Labour Exchange at Devizes , I duly registered for military service . |
| 16 | I duly arrived for my first drive . |
| 17 | I duly arrived at 9.30 am . |
| 18 | However , Brownie Helper 's husband would act as chauffeur , so not being able to think of more excludes , I duly arrived at the appointed hour , to find a welcoming party of six little girls , all anxious to fetch and carry equipment . |
| 19 | I duly called at her house in Thistle Street . |
| 20 | I knew that I wanted a free and independent life although I secretly subscribed to the idea of marrying a professional , sighted man . |
| 21 | I secretly hoped for twenty-one . |
| 22 | I mostly stood on the sidelines , watching the heavy-weights raging at each other . |
| 23 | But the one I eventually went to was very good . |
| 24 | When I eventually returned to Vienna to make music , I was completely relaxed within myself . |
| 25 | I eventually got off the motorway and decided to drive straight to the hospital to see Toby , and paused only to buy him some fruit and a bottle of his favourite Bollinger . |
| 26 | When I eventually got off the bus back in Maseru I nearly collapsed , such was my weakness . |
| 27 | The rod that I eventually settled with was made from an AFTM 10 reservoir fly rod blank , after an interesting morning inspecting blanks at the Horizon factory at Redditch . |
| 28 | Railway stations are almost home to me now , I realized , when I eventually arrived at Victoria . |
| 29 | When I eventually arrived at the hospital I was feeling in the best of spirits and apparently shook the sisters by asking them to bring on the dancing girls . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I eventually arrived in Los Angeles and got a job with a show-business agency as a secretary . |