Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His concern about Germany manifested itself again in 1936 , when he accepted the post in Geneva of League of Nations high commissioner for German refugees , a position he held until 1938 . |
| 2 | Stirling divided them up into eight patrols of three jeeps each , with orders to keep up the pressure . |
| 3 | Its one and only race was 1966 British Grand Prix where Trevor Taylor lined it up on 18th place on the grid and retired during the very first lap . |
| 4 | When we read , for example , that there was ‘ war in heaven ’ ( Rev 12:7 ) we should not assume that there was some sort of cosmic version of Star Wars , or that the archangel Michael and Lucifer fought it out with spiritual light-sabres . |
| 5 | ‘ I mean , they get these ideas and these bees in their bonnets and try and make everyone think the same way , and they change all the rules and upset everything , and Freud got it wrong in one way and Marx got it wrong in another . ’ |
| 6 | Molly moved them carefully to one end of the bar before she hung up Hugh 's clothes and her summer dresses . |
| 7 | He had two other wins that year , at Zandvoort and Monza , but his car let him down on other occasions when his excellent driving had put him in a race-winning situation . |
| 8 | The councillors loved it , and journalists filed it away for some distant future when Mr Portillo might feature in a Conservative leadership election , writes Valerie Elliott . |
| 9 | There was about a quarter of the bottle left , and Edward poured it out for both of them . |
| 10 | His mouth touched hers lightly at first , then he deepened the kiss with a passionate hunger that their lovemaking had failed to assuage . |
| 11 | Jockey Helen Brennan broke her back in five places after falling from her horse . |
| 12 | Steven put me through to this Gwyllam |
| 13 | Sylvie struck her again with greater force so that Katherine knocked her shoulder hard against the edge of the bannister . |
| 14 | With three matches to go , NSW 's , outright victory over SA pushed them up into equal second place with WA , two points behind leaders and defending champions Victory and two points clear of Queensland , who have a game in hand . |
| 15 | Nicholson led them through to another solid steel gate . |
| 16 | A few weeks later the appointments committee asked him back for another interview ; only one other candidate remained on the shortlist . |
| 17 | They became the refuge of the vagabond and beggars sought them out as natural almshouses . |
| 18 | The arrival of the waiter with their fritters jerked her back to full awareness of her surroundings . |
| 19 | However , Kolbe relented when Griess approached him again in 1856 after working in a tar distillery in Offenbach , and took him back . |
| 20 | After a brief lapse , Fate booked us in for more hardship . |
| 21 | David Swan joined them promptly at six-thirty . |
| 22 | Jimmy Tarbuck and his mate Kenny Lynch followed us around for one of the practice days and , unusually for Tom and I , it was a sunny day . |
| 23 | Katie cut hers up into five hundred pieces |
| 24 | In the preface to another intelligence report , the SEAC Assistant Director of Intelligence addressed himself squarely to some of the political problems which were being faced . |
| 25 | His limbs pulled themselves up at ridiculous angles . |
| 26 | The present landlady , Mrs Margaret Saunders took it on in 1941 when Polish servicemen from a nearby camp were regulars . |
| 27 | Then murder led him inexorably — apocalyptic naturalism — to confess and accept suffering , and acceptance of suffering took him back to mere existence which is living life , neither more nor less . |
| 28 | Baldwin 's mission to Washington took him away from 27 December to 27 January . |
| 29 | Croat midfielder Zvonimir Boban put them ahead with further goals from Dutchman Frank Rijkaard , French striker Jean-Pierre Papin and Marco Simone . |
| 30 | Grunte put him down as 16/20 . |