Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 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 .
4 The actual process of putting them together proved to be an awful lot more difficult than we first thought .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 It is well known that I disliked what was in the first three-year letter of intent , but I wholly approved of the principle .
9 I began Chapter 4 by contrasting two views of physics , which I loosely characterized as the instrumental and expressive view .
10 I rarely got beyond this point in my sales patter before expressions of incredulity replaced polite interest .
11 I rarely used to Hasselblad .
12 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 .
13 Although I duly applied for the Fellowship , I was unsuccessful , no doubt to my lasting benefit , as similar failures have served to prove .
14 In February 1940 at the Labour Exchange at Devizes , I duly registered for military service .
15 I duly arrived for my first drive .
16 I duly arrived at 9.30 am .
17 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 .
18 I duly called at her house in Thistle Street .
19 I knew that I wanted a free and independent life although I secretly subscribed to the idea of marrying a professional , sighted man .
20 I secretly hoped for twenty-one .
21 I mostly stood on the sidelines , watching the heavy-weights raging at each other .
22 But the one I eventually went to was very good .
23 When I eventually returned to Vienna to make music , I was completely relaxed within myself .
24 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 .
25 When I eventually got off the bus back in Maseru I nearly collapsed , such was my weakness .
26 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 .
27 Railway stations are almost home to me now , I realized , when I eventually arrived at Victoria .
28 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 . ’
29 I eventually arrived in Los Angeles and got a job with a show-business agency as a secretary .
30 I slowly shifted on my knees across the clearing , aiming to the left of the painted trail .
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