Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at his master rather anxiously as he spoke , and Cornelius Fennell , catching that warning eye , perversely asked for another piece . |
| 2 | My relationship with Crossman eventually became in some ways a comic one . |
| 3 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 4 | The civil disorders and dynastic feuds between Lancaster and York presumably led to some destruction of wealth , although it is virtually impossible to judge how much . |
| 5 | I rarely got beyond this point in my sales patter before expressions of incredulity replaced polite interest . |
| 6 | Robert rather disagreed with this . |
| 7 | The Achaemenid monarch Cambyses conquered Egypt in the year 525 BC ( his predecessor Cyrus had conquered Babylon in 539 BC ) and so the replacement of the ‘ Old-Avestan calendar ’ , as the one formerly used by the Iranians is now called , presumably occurred after that . |
| 8 | It would be tedious to list the types and colours of stone , ceramic etc. used at each site in Britain ; if any picture at all emerges it is that mosaicists made good with what was easily obtained , and that the types of stone used for various shades of colour are predictable and limited in number . |
| 9 | The indisposition of the 8F led to some speculation by passengers on the Cambrian Limited , last Sunday , that the Standard 4 No 75069 would fulfil the Red Rose roster in place of No 8233 . |
| 10 | And I suddenly realized at this stage that there was going to be something rather unexpected happening . |
| 11 | That was before my time , of course , but he obviously passed on some of his skills because during , or just after , very wet weather , Sam would go off somewhere and catch lovely brown trout , which he often gave to people who were ill ; and sometimes when he had a sheep to kill , he would send down the head which would make a really tasty and nourishing broth . |
| 12 | Consequently , first thing in the morning when we were all trying to get ready , we constantly got in each other 's way . |
| 13 | The government 's prolonged sixteen-month silence over the Griffiths Report naturally led to much speculation , rumour and gossip . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The bank was completely under the control of Mr Abdić and his colleagues , and apparently complied with all their wishes . |
| 16 | If I analyse the bosses I 've worked for , the ones who irritated me the most were the ones who were indecisive and who constantly asked for more information just to delay making a decision . |
| 17 | To Methodists the talk of collectivism remained largely a political debate because , despite their numerous schisms , all five Methodist connexions had strong central authorities much envied by some Baptists and Congregationalists . |
| 18 | Okay so got on that train , thinking it would go straight to Hertford and it did n't . |
| 19 | Mr Callaghan 's famous speech to the 1976 Labour party conference ( subsequently cited in many Conservative party publications ) admitted that governments could not spend their way into full employment ; that way only led to more inflation and eventually more unemployment . |
| 20 | This would mean that follow-on credit transactions which individually amounted to less than £30 but together amounted to more would become regulated agreements , under the Consumer Credit Act . |
| 21 | The case lasted 100 days , required the attendance of many witnesses from abroad , and the defendant 's legal costs alone amounted to some £400,000 . |
| 22 | We only caught about half of what was coming across . |
| 23 | A dramatic event would be played out in front of the class — for example a man would run in pursued by another . |
| 24 | Beware of becoming so fixated on this one position that you acquire a mental block against progressing further . |
| 25 | I did this massive erm spit out the window and it suddenly exploded like that . |
| 26 | However , even if the L.G.U. was left wondering if it should n't have kept the public better informed , it must have been greatly heartened by the number of spectators who not only came to this out-of-the-way championship but made it abundantly clear that they were greatly taken with the high standard of play . |
| 27 | For example , we apparently only came to some understanding of how the heart worked when we had within our conceptual framework the notion of a pump . |
| 28 | ‘ Carrington , I must admit I never much believed in any of this malarkey , but it looks as if I 've been proved wrong . |
| 29 | Harbour improvements continued alongside the thriving coastal trade , but the biggest investment necessarily came in those few ports which dominated overseas trade . |
| 30 | Well , I was already in and he came in and just erm I was here and he just suddenly came round that way and he sat down next to Louise and and he said how are you ? |