Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conservative interests sought their own way of picturing the order of Nature , preferring images that admitted change only within the framework of a divinely preordained plan of creation . |
| 2 | She tied up her ribbons and laid William gently in the cradle before saying , ‘ I think he will sleep now . |
| 3 | THE University of Southampton announced plans yesterday to more than double its student numbers over the next 35 years by building an additional campus . |
| 4 | In Chapter 14 we introduced the concept of a forward market , in which buyers and sellers made contracts today for goods to be delivered in the future at a price agreed today . |
| 5 | When James Halden led Sarah away from the scene of her father 's death she had never felt so ashamed . |
| 6 | One ice-breaker went over the top on the Oxford Canal at Nell 's Bridge on Saturday and plunged neck deep into freezing water |
| 7 | And then , hustling her along without actually touching her , he got Lucy away from being the unwelcome centre of the foyer 's attention and ushered her into an office behind the reception desk . |
| 8 | The impact flung Donna forwards in her seat , the safety belt preventing her from hitting the windscreen . |
| 9 | To strew blessings all over the world ; |
| 10 | Regional policy recommended closure only on the last criterion but there is a discrepancy between national ideology and local educational policy . |
| 11 | He became mayor again after the war only to be dismissed by a British officer of the occupying forces , who found him as awkward to deal with as the Nazis had . |
| 12 | Strauss met Gorbachev officially on Aug. 24 . |
| 13 | Localized planning for the use of common resources between schools ( and in some instances the sharing of teaching staff ) made demands principally on heads , who were involved both on their own account and in response to LEA initiatives . |
| 14 | ‘ When shall we meet ? ’ whispered Zach urgently after them . |
| 15 | She presented three rows of two letters in either the left or right field and asked subjects either for a full report of all six letters or simply to recall a particular pair of letters ( partial report condition ) corresponding to a single column of the display . |
| 16 | When he got Ann indoors to himself , he gave her a basting for getting so excited about it . |
| 17 | People spoke of the great times when he fought sea-battles all over the Sudreyar and further south , in England and Ireland and Wales , but he , Paul , had not been there and did n't remember them . |
| 18 | It became Lescar only in the eleventh century , after having been devastated , like other sites in these desirable and prosperous pre-Pyrenean regions , first by the Moors and then by the Vikings . |
| 19 | She made speeches all over Britain , wrote on a regular basis for the Vote ( the journal of the WFL ) and took part in demonstrations and deputations to government officials . |
| 20 | right and then you 've got an infinite backing where you got speakers there like that and then you got a board behind that and then one behind that and behind that |
| 21 | All this is not to say that the clergy lacked grievances generally against the king , but that they were neither of the kind to excite lay sympathy nor even sufficiently widespread or fundamental to unite the clergy themselves . |
| 22 | We got charge accounts at Max 's Kansas City , we got a charge account with a limousine service — we rode limousines instead of taxis because we did n't have to pay for limousines and we 'd have to pay the taxis — so we were always in limousines . |
| 23 | Felicity asked David then about his ambitions and when he had admitted them , she said : |
| 24 | We used carbomer primarily as a vehicle for the bismuth to try to achieve adherence to the surface mucosa with optimal topical application of the bismuth . |
| 25 | Barnes kicked two more penalty goals to put Bath 15–9 ahead in the second half but Gloucester fought back and drew level again with two more goals by Smith . |
| 26 | UK Prime Minister John Major visited Moscow briefly on Sept. 1 ( en route for Beijing — see p. 38435 ) . |
| 27 | The king himself was not paid ( although Edward Balliol , ‘ king ’ of Scots , drew payment both in times of war and peace ) but dukes received 13s. 4d ; earls 6s. 8d ; knights-baneret 4s ; knights-bachelor 2s ; and esquires 1s ; these last sums corresponding proportionately to the amount each might expect to spend on a horse ( as outlined above ) whose value was agreed in advance , so that compensation for its loss could be paid by the crown . |
| 28 | Victory gave Charlton their 11th away League win , but it hardly looked likely when captain Gary Bennett headed Sunderland ahead after 56 minutes . |
| 29 | Later still , by the mid 1960s when the various organisations within the broad front of the civil rights movements had developed sufficiently to conduct their own educational programs , Highlander changed direction again in the thrust of its educational programs . |
| 30 | The Poles , in an effort to re-elect their own representatives , drew money illegally from outside the city . |