Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When mixed with warm water the powder became a dense paste which Frankie plastered all over her hair . |
| 2 | When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty . |
| 3 | But then President Truman made a big mistake he got the United Nations to authorize another resolution which called for the unification of Korea erm through United Nations intervention and American forces crossed the Yalob |
| 4 | The Times made the suggested link their front-page headline — Porn videos turned ‘ Fox ’ into rapist — while the Daily Mail used this theme in their editorial of the day , as part of their continuing campaign against porn videos . |
| 5 | The case concerned a 13-year-old girl whom the LEA accepted was a slow learner with special educational needs . |
| 6 | As I have already made clear , the issue in that case concerned the second decision which the Secretary of State has to make , whether to release the prisoner at the end of his tariff period or to detain him in custody . |
| 7 | The Morgan case created a legal debate which produced some contortions of legal reasoning . |
| 8 | Moreover , for as long as authorities pursued a monetary policy which held the unemployment rate at U 1 , this prediction error will persist over time . |
| 9 | Prosecution Counsel Steven Williamson described the horrific atrtack which took place in Mrs Howe 's room on campus . |
| 10 | Arriving , triumphant , in Ulm in the late afternoon , I had within half an hour found the worst hotel I had been in in years , with the modest staff and a parking ticket to boot . |
| 11 | While the episode revealed the enormous power which the USA could wield in the American hemisphere , such actions provided no permanent solution to the fundamental causes of instability in Latin America — and they led to widespread anti-American feeling . |
| 12 | Homes became a speculative investment which bubble and burst , leaving thousands without homes or unable to move home . |
| 13 | Five hours of talks between an Israeli negotiating team and members of the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation produced a joint statement which said that further negotiations would be divided into " two tracks " , to discuss Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Jordanian issues . |
| 14 | Above all , the English in the age of Bede created a vigorous culture whose ripples were to be felt across Western Europe for decades . |
| 15 | He was esteemed to excel in the art of mining , and at his own expense built the beautiful church which was completed in the amazingly short space of seven months . |
| 16 | That night , Jessica Roberts found the ritual element she had always accepted in her high home life hard to bear . |
| 17 | In 1989 Nixon and Koch described a manometric pattern they termed recurrent autonomous oesophageal peristalsis . |
| 18 | Richard used a new toothbrush which Martin had been saving fresh from the cellophane . |
| 19 | Melvyn Hayes played the younger son who wants to give up technical college and the chance of a job as an engineer so that he can fulfil his literary ambitions . |
| 20 | The Welsh and Scots adopted a different tactic which was more in keeping with their less explicitly political expression of nationality . |
| 21 | A light wind stirred the coarse grass which grew thick and rough on the eroded banks , but thinned to the odd clump as it reached the river 's thick , iodine coated mud |
| 22 | And into the confusion strolled an elderly passer-by who had just popped into the hotel for a quiet ploughman 's lunch and nearly passed out instead . |
| 23 | It must have seemed utterly reasonable to extend the golden rule of the Sermon on the Mount to animals so that animals deserved the same treatment which the human expected from other humans . |
| 24 | Sylvie followed the dark-suited man who had opened the vast polished door to her , trailed past antique busts of senatorial gaze . |
| 25 | During the few days before Blundy came across to Belfast , Paisley contacted a legal friend who in turn suggested to Vincent Browne of the Sunday Independent , a Dublin newspaper , that he examine the Black case . |
| 26 | Hugo 's restless eyes targeted a handsome dowager who stood in front of the long gilt mirrors . |
| 27 | Some years later William Hinton started a steam-driven sugarmill which his son Harry expanded into a vast sugar empire , with a factory at the Torreão . |
| 28 | A customer returns a skirt because the zip broke the first time she wore it . |
| 29 | Gorbachev inherited a Soviet state which was , in a celebrated Stalinist formulation , ‘ national in form but socialist in content ’ . |
| 30 | But the reasoning of the leading scientific intellects of the age had nothing like so much effect as an obscure little Japanese fishing boat named the Lucky Dragon which was 85 miles from Bikini Atoll when Dr Teller 's H-bomb went off . |