Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 2 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 3 | But then , encouraged by her parents , she slowly got to grips with her studies . |
| 4 | Thomson was born in Kansas City in 1896 , studied at Harvard , and then mostly lived in Paris until 1940 . |
| 5 | I brought my heel down on his instep , and then caught his forehead with my knee as he instinctively doubled with pain . |
| 6 | We had notice of Sarah 's barrenness even before it properly got under way ( 11.30 ) . |
| 7 | He provided Gordon with excellent feedback from the track and by now he rarely got into trouble on the circuit . |
| 8 | WHYTE Crucial clearances but rarely got to grips with Hateley or McCoist 6 |
| 9 | Shamed by having to say no whenever I was asked if an urgent document could be dispatched to me down the telephone — feeling badly outfaxed in fact — I had finally succumbed . |
| 10 | The recent history of educational innovation , from Nuffield and mixed ability onwards , shows that unless change is generated and/or wholeheartedly appropriated by teachers it will end up on the mounting scrap-heap of ‘ good ideas that never quite took off ’ . |
| 11 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 12 | After the horse was bedded down it was time for Sirrell to celebrate properly , and most of Nantgaredig turned up to assist : he eventually got to bed at 3 a.m . |
| 13 | The tow rope snapped twice on the way and was getting shorter and shorter before we eventually got to Darlington . |
| 14 | The young German eventually got in front with seven laps remaining when Senna 's McLaren appeared to develop a technical problem , Schumacher squeezing past at the final hairpin . |
| 15 | Samuel Palmer was what eventually led to Keating 's discovery . |
| 16 | He described it as the ‘ best news since 1948 ’ when the National Party came to power on the policy of apartheid , which eventually led to South Africa 's ban from the international rugby arena until this year . |
| 17 | A dynastic struggle conducted under the hovering threat of Turkish occupation eventually led to Ferdinand of Habsburg gaining the throne , but his effective authority existed over only a fragment of Hungary and Croatia-Slavonia . |
| 18 | Sharpe 's current illness apart , he also missed several months with repeated hernia problems which eventually led to surgery . |
| 19 | There they eventually led to coalition governments . |
| 20 | His body is not all that promising : the epic blemishes on the back of the hands , the torso loosely robed in flesh smelling of poultry and peppermint , the feet . |
| 21 | ‘ I rarely used to Hasselblad . |
| 22 | During the campaign for elections to the European Parliament ( EP ) in June 1989 [ see pp. 36737 ; 36874-75 ] they successfully capitalized on opposition to controversial proposals that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections throughout European Community ( EC ) member states . |
| 23 | She turned round and slowly headed for home . |
| 24 | Guests will be lawful visitors to those parts of the hotel to which they have been invited , i.e. all public rooms ( lounge , reception , restaurant ) , their bedrooms , conveniences , etc. provided for guests ' use . |
| 25 | There seemed to be wide horizontal bands of light which slowly changed in intensity , with brighter spots growing and fading in places mysteriously against the deeps of eternity . |
| 26 | 11 To there friends who knew her , her self-assertion was born from nothing but a necessary and confident determination to succeed in an area where women rarely rose to prominence . |
| 27 | If we let X stand for any one of the sets X , Q , R , C , Z[x] , etc. mentioned in Chapter 1 , then the operations of addition and multiplication defined on X may be described as binary operations on X in that , to each pair of elements of X , both + and . |
| 28 | ‘ We want to see it properly regulated with guidelines for doctors . ’ |
| 29 | He eventually moved to Berlin , where he changed his name to Reuter . |
| 30 | What Tully built for Goldney was predictably a piece of safe , oldfashioned Baroque . |