Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Till the Union made them acquainted with English manners , the culture of their lands was unskilful , and their domestic life unformed ; their tables were coarse as the feasts of Eskimeaux , and their houses as filthy as the cottages of Hottentots . ’ |
| 2 | I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that . |
| 3 | St Mawgan Radar asked us to climb to 2500 feet through the MATZ . |
| 4 | His Mum made him sit on one of the chairs that were all round the walls and look at the magazines . |
| 5 | My natural reserve made me recoil at this blatant approach , as did my total commitment and loyalty to Leslie . |
| 6 | The poignant melody made him think of soft feminine sighs , warm arms and whispered words of love in the dark of night . |
| 7 | The slam of the door and its subsequent splitting as the axe hit it merged into one sound . |
| 8 | A period in the engineering department saw him promoted from senior mechanical engineer to head of mechanical engineering before he was appointed head of facilities for BP 's northern district which included the Buchan , Beatrice , SWOPS , Clyde , Thistle and Magnus upstream activities . |
| 9 | An SAR helicopter of the Army Air Corps and an RAF Nimrod began a search , and at 0015 on Friday 9 March William Luckin slipped her mooring with Second Coxswain/Mechanic John O'Donnell in command . |
| 10 | The fact that Nikon overreached himself was clearly exposed when Tsar Alexis forced him to withdraw from public affairs and subsequently had him deposed and replaced by a more pliant successor . |
| 11 | Pat said they went to late-night movies , and then on to parties . |
| 12 | Now she had rudely stripped the corpse , and at no time during the action had she thought of that strip of white fabric … |
| 13 | Branson held her to contract for five more months , preventing her from working anywhere else , until he decided it was unreasonable to hold her any longer , and she was at last able to find work elsewhere in the record industry . |
| 14 | The women 's hats and bright make-up made them look like exotic birds . |
| 15 | Once it had dispersed , Bunting was allowed to hold a meeting in the Diamond and for a short time afterwards there was tension as rival groups of teenagers faced each other , but police and DCAC stewards persuaded them to disperse before any trouble broke out . |
| 16 | His reputation , style and personal charm enabled him to recover from serious mismatches , such as the ill-advised moving from ITT to RCA of Maurice Valente , who lasted a mere six months in his new job . |
| 17 | The people who created the Garotter 's Act , together with the gentlemen who egged them on from the sidelines helping to fashion the vocabulary of objections to penal reform which remain with us to this day , were thus the same men whose blunted moral sensibilities enabled them to preside over this magnanimous process of ‘ civilisation ’ without turning a hair . |
| 18 | Where did the ships sail and what cargoes did they carry in 1500 AD ? |
| 19 | ‘ Whose intelligence did you engage with this evening , Karim ? |
| 20 | Prosecutor Nigel Godsmark said he preyed on 270 women over a three-year period . |
| 21 | As a young socialist in Weimar Germany she shared her life and ideals first with Rafael Buber , son of the Jewish theologian and philosopher Martin Buber , then with Heinz Neumann , who was to become leader of the German Communist party until Stalin had him removed in 1932 . |
| 22 | Mr Gray said he knew of one man who had been threatened with court action for not paying his water rates when he did not receive a reminder . |
| 23 | She went out his wife , shopping left him tinkering with this scooter came back , could n't get in then she did get in and he was dead on the floor ! |
| 24 | But where the wood ended she stepped into another world . |
| 25 | Furthermore , while in former times the responsible authorities strove their hardest to mitigate poverty , of circumstance and opportunity , by driving hard for high levels of education provision , low expectation still depressed educational achievement , and work-related training in industry continued to be low-grade — where employers allowed it to happen at all . |
| 26 | Technological improvements allowed them to capitalize on that wealth in the 1920s . |
| 27 | But the polish on the sockets made them look like new . |
| 28 | The story is , that in bygone days before the advent of the white man , there was a young Siwash Indian whose ardent love of nature made him come to that point of land on the inlet every day to watch the sunset . |
| 29 | Artai was incapable of sitting still for long , and only his abnormal concern with his appearance made him submit at all to the restrictive nature of the ministrations of the Y'frike slaves . |
| 30 | The waiter invited them to choose between coq au vin and navarin of lamb , either of which , in other circumstances , would have been called stew . |