Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one case this turned out to be quite untrue . |
| 2 | On closer inspection this turned out to be the L'Chaim Society , a Jewish good-time gang which presumably also has a stout approach to Judaism . |
| 3 | But , on the stroke of midnight , Prince Charming turned back into a rat . ’ |
| 4 | This option might have to be taken up in the future when the V-bombers reached the end of their operational lives , unless the TSR 2 turned out to be as effective as the RAF hoped , and was able to extend the life of the airborne nuclear deterrent indefinitely . |
| 5 | Within minutes another went off at the Planetarium next-door , followed by two more at the Imperial War museum . |
| 6 | Of 221 launches in answer to unidentified distress signals 216 turned out to be false alarms or hoax calls . |
| 7 | Winners Many cashed in on their success by exiting just before the current recession began |
| 8 | The impact as well as the shock of the bullet wound knocked him crashing face down to the ground , his legs all mixed up with the trolley 's wheels . |
| 9 | We gave the crashing waves off Rubha Dubh Tighary a wide berth as the force 5 picked up from behind . |
| 10 | Murad II came out of retirement to inflict a severe defeat on this motley force when he confronted them at Varna . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , given the one-roomed hovels many lived in at that period , there may indeed have been a real improvement . |
| 12 | The voices all jumped out at once . |
| 13 | The appellant Christou first came in with Wright on 15 January 1991 . |
| 14 | Early in 1943 Leslie had written to me from North Africa : ‘ I had the unusual experience of seeing a Messerschmitt 110 shot down by A.A. fire not 100 feet above my head . |
| 15 | The bridge is also sensitive and highly accurate for finding the loss of a capacitor or inductor from the value of R 1 indicated by at balance . |
| 16 | Foxing was a term first used in about the 1840s , probably because the brownish-yellow spots and blotches reminded some fox-hunting bibliophile of his quarry in the countryside . |
| 17 | Ironically , David first went out with the woman who was to change his life on a girl 's night in town . |
| 18 | A century and a half later , of course , many new fossil discoveries and much critical analysis have greatly advanced our understanding of dinosaurs , although not to the extent that the controversy and emotion first stirred up by Owen has entirely abated . |
| 19 | John on Tuesday last set out with Gilbert for Launceston , intending to visit some island in Bass 's Straits . |
| 20 | However , formal discussions begun in May 1991 broke down in June when the NSF refused to concede the main opposition demand for Roman to be replaced by a " neutral " Prime Minister . |
| 21 | The UK Data Protection Act 1984 arose out of the Council of Europe Convention , and is based upon eight general principles . |
| 22 | As you will see in the final reading from Gowie Corby Plays Chicken nobody w ill put up with Gowie 's cruel jokes for ever and it 's not long before people 's patience with him runs out . |
| 23 | According to some papers , Lazio are annoyed that the England international jetted out of Rome on Sunday to visit EuroDisney with his girlfriend — particularly as he was judged not fit enough to play against Torino because of 'flu . |
| 24 | JOLLY hockey-sticks … it 's Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders all dolled up like a pair of overgrown schoolgirls for a St Trinians-style TV comedy . |
| 25 | Not the young Francis either , in whom I stood a better hope of experiencing the odd happy memory , but Francis as I 'd last experienced him with the tang of his Lucky Strikes , last night 's whisky and dejection all togged up as joie de vivre . |
| 26 | Du n no how Maggie first sat down with him . |
| 27 | Nigeria 's President Babangida on Aug. 16 spoke out against unilateral production increases , while Indonesia had said on the previous day that OPEC should first let the industrialized countries draw down their stockpiles . |
| 28 | Third , when facilities management first took off in the US , suppliers were dealing solely with mainframes , and could earn higher margins from significant economies of scale — several mainframes were centralised on one site , and could deal with the information technology requirements of many customers — and so the old bureau service was recreated under another name . |
| 29 | Act Two opened on to a stark strip of grey . |
| 30 | The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 gave back to the Secretary of State for the Environment the power to make determinations excluding certain elderly persons ' dwellings from the Right to Buy . |