Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [conj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee of London Clearing Bankers told us that in recent years the banks have been opening an increasing number of accounts for customers in the middle to lower income groups . |
| 2 | A local craft shop took them and after that she had regular orders for them from outlets further afield . |
| 3 | The man was unconscious when his wife found him and despite 40 minutes of intensive life-saving efforts the man died . |
| 4 | But still the urge to express her feelings tormented her and at last , in defiance of that dislike she had felt on their last meeting , she sat down and wrote to the person to whom she had once been most close , to Mrs Browning . |
| 5 | The lighthouse was fourteen years old when JTR sketched it and by 1876 fish oil had been replaced by paraffin fuel . |
| 6 | He was married , his wife left him because of domestic violence . |
| 7 | Our members wanted it and in many industries it makes sense , but the bigger task , the main event , is to see whether by a more formal relationship , a more formal partnership , we can build a union which is better than the T & G , better than the G M B and better suited for modern conditions than any trade union so far created in Britain . |
| 8 | Natural phenomena intrigued him and in particular the ‘ waterspouts ’ — which we now call flash-floods so frequent in very wet weather . |
| 9 | The chemistry department had a strong reputation in carbohydrate chemistry , and the story had it that as new sugars were discovered they were given names that always ended in ‘ -ose ’ — eg sucrose , glucose , fructose etc . |
| 10 | In his next letter Leslie told me that on that day he had been assigned ‘ a rather painful duty … from 4 o'clock this afternoon for 24 hours I am escort to an officer under close arrest , a captain , I believe . |