Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1940 at the Labour Exchange at Devizes , I duly registered for military service . |
| 2 | He looked at his master rather anxiously as he spoke , and Cornelius Fennell , catching that warning eye , perversely asked for another piece . |
| 3 | After about 20 years of critical success which rarely translated into public acclaim , his new novel , Affliction ( Picador , £12.95 ) , has hit big in the US . |
| 4 | My relationship with Crossman eventually became in some ways a comic one . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On a minor , but parallel line , from the 1740s onwards the aesthetic rich began building rustic , Gothick and Chinese garden houses and this picturesque style slowly crept into small house architecture . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I rarely got beyond this point in my sales patter before expressions of incredulity replaced polite interest . |
| 9 | It eventually led to Civil War . |
| 10 | On the militarist question , there can be no doubt that the Boy Scouts made a significant contribution to the growth of the war mentality , although the early movement was nearly torn apart by the question of militarism which eventually led to break-away groups such as the Woodcraft Folk . |
| 11 | Working on the template agreed with his fellow coaches , McGeechan and Douglas Morgan , Dixon has brought a dynamism to the driving mauls , mostly triggered from clean lineout ball , which had seemed largely beyond the Scottish Exiles — four of whom are in the pack — when they attempted to deploy that tactic during the inter-district championship . |
| 12 | Throughout 1988 there were reports of growing unrest in Armenia which eventually erupted into major dashes , with tales of large-scale rioting and murder with tanks and troops on the streets . |
| 13 | He was mechanically ventilated with 100% oxygen and eventually extubated after intravenous flumazenil . |
| 14 | Robert rather disagreed with this . |
| 15 | Both were the kind of homosexuals who felt sexually inhibited with partners from their own educational background and class and who rarely found in one and the same person both lover and friend . |
| 16 | She successfully traced over 90 per cent of these individuals some thirty years later , and collected information about them from interviews and records , including assessments by psychiatrists on the presence of psychiatric disturbance . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Apart from in 1952 employment grew continuously and unemployment rarely rose above 300,000 . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , there were a few Conservative politicians who fundamentally disagreed with Conservative policy . |
| 20 | Local private firms had built up a skilled work force that eventually drew in foreign multinationals on terms acceptable to the government . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He was still up when the theatre eventually stopped at three-forty , and returned with the S.S.O. The latter was in theatre clothes , with his green cap pushed back on his red head and his mask limp round his neck . |
| 23 | When the fungus is finished with its host , large club-shaped fruiting structures punch out through the insect 's exoskeleton , leaving the lifeless husk grotesquely studded with bizarre outgrowths . |
| 24 | Without looking back into the car he suddenly drawled in good English : |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Thus , for example , the Reagan administration 's 1982 budget cuts alone led to one million people becoming unemployed in both private and public sectors . |
| 27 | And I suddenly realized at this stage that there was going to be something rather unexpected happening . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Consequently , first thing in the morning when we were all trying to get ready , we constantly got in each other 's way . |
| 30 | Tawney , Sadler , Bray , Gibb , Best and Ogden , and Dyer , among others , all argued for trade-based courses with an emphasis on practical instruction . |