Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contract came to grief and the projects passed briefly through another restoration house , then into the Tallichet storage facility in Chino , California . |
| 2 | in conformity with any rules agreed unanimously in that respect by the Parties , or |
| 3 | Chuck peered intently at each girl they passed , but without exception they avoided his gaze . |
| 4 | Tony released her arm , clapping Terry on the shoulder as he passed him , and Terry and Sarah moved self-consciously towards each other . |
| 5 | Parts of the test-tube fusion episode failed sadly on this score . |
| 6 | Supporting Hackman and Oldham 's pessimism are the results of a large-scale experiment in the United States , along the lines of the Tavistock study reported earlier in this chapter . |
| 7 | He moaned submissively as their lips ground hard against each other . |
| 8 | The English delegation objected violently to this poster , saying it could n't possibly be distributed , especially in the UK . |
| 9 | Very few ideas and very few projects of any significance are implemented by one person alone : Other people 's effort makes it happen — whether they are assistants , subordinates , a staff , a special project team , or a task force of peers assembled just for this effort . |
| 10 | The iron-clad Monitor and Merrimack hammered away at each other in the American Civil War . |
| 11 | Manville brooded morosely on this topic as the driver manipulated his four-wheeled war chariot in between the busy traffic of the four-lane highway . |
| 12 | At Magdalen Bridge , Dennis went ashore for more champagne , which passed from hand to hand as we negotiated the lower reaches of the river . |
| 13 | He knows its hard on him , but the boat went better with another boy . |
| 14 | The child 's voice rose in righteous indignation as Molly bit desperately into another toast soldier . |
| 15 | This proved true above all at the time of which I write , or up to that time , because adolescence is as much a mental as a biological experience , and the arts meant much at that epoch , the last before the advent of Pop Culture , which has since taken over the adolescent mind rendering present that ‘ future ’ which Eliot dreaded . |
| 16 | The local researcher may find this kind of work , down-to-earth and practical , a welcome contrast to the more academic kinds of study discussed elsewhere in this book . |
| 17 | fraudulent land agent who sells Martin Chuzzlewit a worthless plot in Eden : ‘ Two grey eyes lurked deep within this agent 's head , but one of them had no sight in it , and stood stock still . |
| 18 | This was unsuccessful , but fighting continued there for some time . |
| 19 | Harry 's lips tightened angrily at that slur , but he remained silent . |
| 20 | MacDonald equalised just before half time and added three more in the second half . |
| 21 | He strode confidently towards a nearby tent of clear plastic sheeting , over which the gaudy Chelonian flag fluttered limply at half mast in the moaning wind . |
| 22 | Tallis moved swiftly through this place of forest shrines , and after a while the nature of the wood changed again . |
| 23 | What is needed is criteria relating to each of the aspects of generalization listed earlier in this section for each of the levels of a scheme . |
| 24 | The inhabitants of the southern coastal counties of England suffered considerably in this respect , in particular in the late 1370s , when several places on the south coast experienced attacks and , in the case of Winchelsea in 1380 , virtual destruction . |
| 25 | The Irish Union legislation ( see pp.19–21 above ) had provided that the churches should be united and established for ever and the new Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland established apparently on that basis . |
| 26 | And anyway , the panda went upstairs with this prostitute and erm well he was a bit peckish so they had something to eat . |
| 27 | Seb and Nahum looked across at each other and both tried not to smile . |
| 28 | Anthony laughed again in some torment . |
| 29 | We know that Wordsworth thought highly of this entry , for he began to copy it into a notebook , and used its phrases in a fragment of poetry : |
| 30 | She was quite perfect and that those eyes could not see was a great tragedy , one that Maggie felt deeply at that moment . |