Example sentences of "[num ord] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second excommunicated all clergy who did homage to laymen for ecclesiastical possessions , as well as those who associated with them afterwards . |
| 2 | Thatched roof , two storeys , the second had more mullion windows hunched inside the thatch . |
| 3 | When Mr Roach first made this point in late 1988 , many economists thought he was being too sanguine . |
| 4 | What is more , Celtic and German dialects received very early the Greek verb in the sense of " to graft " : it has given " enter " in French , " impfen " in German , and I like to remember that I first met this word in my childhood as a current term of Piedmontese agriculture . |
| 5 | When I first met these ideas , I was reluctant to accept them , because they seemed to suggest that our knowledge of the world is more unreliable than I would like to think . |
| 6 | Their new appointments will reunite Mark Baker and Bruce Lack , who first met several years ago on a training ship . |
| 7 | The sapphire and diamond ring , first revealed this week in TODAY , and the gold wedding band had their origins in a far humbler place — her own studio in the quiet cathedral city of Winchester , Hants . |
| 8 | It was Gauss who first disclosed this power in his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae . |
| 9 | But by the time the Israelites first passed that way , towards , probably , the end of the thirteenth century BCE , that tower , now exposed to view by the archaeologist 's shovel , would have been hidden deep beneath the ground , buried beneath layer after layer of the remains of a series of settlements . |
| 10 | So , it worked ideal , and that 's when I first found this place or heard about it well I heard . |
| 11 | I was told when I first entered this business that a pretty girl is on her way out at 23 and all washed up at 27 . |
| 12 | Bukharin first posed this exchange as follows : ‘ Considered as a whole , we find that the process of reproduction is a process of constant disturbance and re-establishment of equilibrium between society and nature . |
| 13 | Danny Kaye first used this trick in Wonder Man ( 1945 ) , where he played twins ( one of them a ghost ) and repeated it in variant forms in On the Riviera ( 1951 ) and On the Double ( 1961 ) . |
| 14 | It was the Quaker ironmaster Abraham Darby ( q.v. ) who first used this method successfully here in 1709 , and in so doing , he made Coalbrookdale the cradle of the Industrial Revolution and Shropshire — for a time — the centre of the industrial world , with ideal coal deposits at hand to give the area a head start in the production of pig-iron . |
| 15 | When Ann and I first visited this area , we followed the same route as luckless Montrose , travelling south from Caithness , over the Ord to the Kyle of Sutherland , past Lairg , then up Strath Oykle . |
| 16 | It was Peirce who first termed such expressions indexical signs , and argued that they determined a referent by an existential relation between sign and referent ( see Burks , 1949 ) Peirce 's category in fact included rather more than the directly Context-dependent expressions that are now called deictic or indexical , and his particular system of categories has not been put to much effective use in linguistic pragmatics ( but see e.g. Bean , 1978 ) . |
| 17 | It first attained some prominence during the Han dynasty when contacts with the west were intensified . |
| 18 | Itoh and Guth first showed that SOD could significantly protect against gastric mucosal injury induced by haemorrhageic shock for 20 minutes and retransfusion in rats . |
| 19 | Since Central news first showed these pictures last february , Watkins Engineering has been issued with a legal notice telling the firm that it is responsible for clearing out the shaft . |
| 20 | Since Central news first showed these pictures last february , Watkins Engineering has been issued with a legal notice telling the firm that it is responsible for clearing out the shaft . |
| 21 | Since Central news first showed these pictures last february , Watkins Engineering has been issued with a legal notice telling the firm that it is responsible for clearing out the shaft . |
| 22 | Since Central news first showed these pictures last february , Watkins Engineering has been issued with a legal notice telling the firm that it is responsible for clearing out the shaft . |
| 23 | Retracing the route from Berlin to Beijing — for let us not forget where people 's power first flourished this year - we find a even more isolated regime with yet fewer options . |
| 24 | Retracing the route from Berlin to Beijing — for let us not forget where people 's power first flourished this year - we find a even more isolated regime with yet fewer options . |
| 25 | The idea of holy war ( jihad ) was native to Islam , a method of Moslem expansionism , but it was in Spain that Christianity first borrowed this notion . |
| 26 | It is not going too far to suggest that it was the fame of Chaplin that first allowed many intellectuals to even broach the subject of film and certainly he brought back the possibility of ‘ slumming it ’ that had rather disappeared since the days of music-hall . |
| 27 | In making this break with tradition , James , it seems , had come to the conclusion that it was time for the intellectual elite to shut up and listen to the workers for a change for it was they who were at the sharp end of the production system and therefore they who first sensed any changes in patterns of production . |
| 28 | I told the hon. Member for Bolton , North-East ( Mr. Thurnham ) , who first raised this matter , that he should draw it to the attention of the Serjeant at Arms , when appropriate action would be taken . |
| 29 | It is good because Léon Bonn at , a loyal son of Bayonne , first collected these pictures and then left them to the town , which responded by building a small palace in which to show them . |
| 30 | Meichenbaum first developed these techniques in 1974 but they have recently been extended and detailed by Meichenbaum and Cameron ( 1983 ) . |