Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she knew herself to look better , clad in what passed for finery these days , than she did in the house where with so much work to do she had not a moment to spare for her appearance . |
| 2 | He described with horror this fish 's ability to paralyse anyone who came near it . |
| 3 | As one rose in society this problem , paradoxically , became more acute as the possibilities of domestic service or involvement in a family enterprise were reduced Although writing remained an outlet for women 's talents , many women who published were attacked as whores . |
| 4 | I recently heard of a family who invited to church some friends who were staying with them for the weekend . |
| 5 | Staff will recall that Penny Carter , a casual part-time member of staff in Foreign Books , appealed for money some time ago to support an evangelising trip to Russia . |
| 6 | UNPROFOR convoys trying to reach other towns came under fire several times ( and on Nov. 6 returned fire ) but on Nov. 19 broke the seven-month siege of Tuzla and on Nov. 28 the eight-month siege of Srebrenica ( the biggest Moslem enclave in eastern Bosnia ) ; both towns were full of refugees . |
| 7 | The goal deluge at St James 's Park brought home the need to counter the effects of the new offside law which came into force that summer and which reduced from three to two the number of players required to be between an opposing attacker and goal when the ball was last played . |
| 8 | Twenty nine per cent were worn below the legal limit of 1.6mm of tread , which came into force this year , and 54pc were below the old limit of 1mm . |
| 9 | MORE than 19 million employees will pay £3 a week less in national insurance contributions and more than two million pensioners will be able to work without reducing their state pension entitlement following changes which came into force this month . |
| 10 | At present the convention , which came into force this month , only provides for an exchange of information , consultation , research and monitoring . |
| 11 | Courses for training both residential and casework staff were organized rapidly so that when the 1948 Children Act came into force some influx of trained staff was anticipated to staff the new children 's departments . |
| 12 | A decree permitting the free formation of parties came into effect that month [ see p. 37402 ] and was followed by the formation of a number of new parties . |
| 13 | The plaintiff had originally brought the action also against other defendants , seeking relief in the same terms as against the fourth and fifth defendants , but before action came to trial those defendants Norfolk Line Ltd. , Kent Line Ltd. , Transit Freights Ltd. and Britholdings Ltd. , ceased to be parties to the action . |
| 14 | I mean , I had n't heard anything of you since you came to dinner that evening and … well , went off rather hurriedly . |
| 15 | Herodotus ' History can be seen as a sermon on the text that Spartans and Persians , even in their great period of conflict , gradually came to value each other 's qualities:2 at first ( Hdt. i.153 ) Cyrus the Great scoffs at the Greeks who come together in a market-place to cheat each other ; by the end , the exiled Spartan king Demaratos is shown ( vii.104 ) lecturing a clearly impressed Xerxes on the subject of Spartan deference to law . |
| 16 | Soon he came to value this practice very much . |
| 17 | Montenegro 's young and go-ahead leadership , which came to power this year amid furious popular dissatisfaction with the ‘ old men in grey suits ’ , sponsored the gathering of Nicholas 's surviving relatives — the first ‘ royal reunion ’ organised by a Communist government . |
| 18 | One interesting side effect of the fire in Ankh-Morpork concerns the inn-sewer-ants policy , which left the city through the ravaged roof of the Broken Drum , was wafted high into the discworld 's atmosphere on the ensuing thermal , and came to earth several days and a few thousand miles away on an uloruaha bush in the beTrobi islands . |
| 19 | His housekeepers certainly seemed to rate more consideration than his bed-partners . |
| 20 | Material circumstances seemed to condition these responses . |
| 21 | Came on coach this morning , ’ I earwigged one middle-aged man telling another in an unadulterated northern accent . |
| 22 | Interference came at dinner that night . |
| 23 | He arrived after supper that evening , having spent the previous night , it transpired , at Sigouri . |
| 24 | ‘ But Headmistress , the child only arrived in school this morning and came straight to the classroom … ’ |
| 25 | For one of the founders of the sociology of religion , Emile Durkheim , history showed beyond doubt that religion had come to embrace a progressively smaller sector of social life . |
| 26 | As a result , the whole contract was completed on time and opened on schedule this week , less than a year after work on the site began . |
| 27 | The whole place was buzzing when she arrived at work that morning . |
| 28 | When he arrived at work that morning the result of their labours was waiting for him in a blue folder . |
| 29 | The letter ( the one we have just been talking about , the one that arrived by post this morning , the one containing Aunt Kitty 's cheque … ) is in the drawer ( the one in the desk , the one in the dressing table upstairs , the one in the kitchen where we always put the post … ) . |
| 30 | The day began with talk that South Eastern Asset Management , a Tennessee-based fund manager , had been adding to its 10.3 per cent shareholding . |