Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers felt that this text offered them many opportunities for the development of the understanding of parental roles and it was thought to be a book from which all sorts of related topic work could be derived . |
| 2 | The round-headed silhouette of the Scottish Fold gained it many admirers , although some felt it looked too sad . |
| 3 | The British official behind his high desk asked me numerous questions which I did n't understand . |
| 4 | He has been accused of being an agent of the CIA , and Ethiopian security gave him 48 hours to leave the country in August 1978 , but no one has found any evidence to confirm these rumours , ‘ I think it 's very unlikely that Ethiopian security would expel somebody on the basis of baseless rumours , ’ White says . |
| 5 | He was rather vague about that , so my Hon. Friend asked him more questions . |
| 6 | Then Trevino 's 1972 success made it back-to-back Opens for the Mexican-American . |
| 7 | His lively personality won him many well-wishers at the time and those fans did n't forget him on his birthday . |
| 8 | Chartered towns paid him annual rents , known as fee-farms , in return for their privileges . |
| 9 | Three different horses won it four years running . |
| 10 | This created the problem that their English-style education taught them liberal principles , while the system then denied them that same liberal advancement to the higher echelons of power and social prestige . |
| 11 | Sununu 's abrasive and often arrogant personal style won him few friends during his three-year tenure at the White House . |
| 12 | Standard English caused us enormous problems . |
| 13 | Hot Shot 's monthly releases gave you 45 minutes of video excerpts of the latest computer games for only £5 . |
| 14 | A report by the National Council of Public Morals on The Cinema ( 1917 ) had also scrutinised the problem , entertaining a wide variety of evidence — on such matters as the educational potential of the cinema , censorship and licensing , the molestation of children in picture palaces , and a clouded discussion of what was somewhat eerily called ‘ the moral dangers of darkness ’ — as well as some monosyllabic evidence from children themselves on whether the moving pictures gave them bad dreams . |
| 15 | The end of the cold war gave us real hopes that the Gulf operation could be the seed , round which a new role for the UN would develop . |
| 16 | A man in a spotless white coat offered me little pieces of cheese to taste from the end of a special curved knife . |
| 17 | His bright and affectionate nature won him numerous friends from earliest schooldays . |
| 18 | His twenty-rod patch cost him twelve shillings a year in rent and produced not only sufficient potatoes to feed the family from late May round to April the following year , but also a variety of other vegetables . |
| 19 | The ancient Chinese invented it 2,000 years ago as a way to pass instructions down the line and information up to the top . |
| 20 | After opening firmer , the dollar lost ground on expectations of an imminent easing of monetary policy by the US Federal Reserve but strong demand pushed it 0.80 pfennigs higher at DM1.8925 . |
| 21 | ‘ Those weekends gave us more problems than they solved , ’ Ryan conceded . |
| 22 | Inside the kitchen it was warm , and smiling Scandinavians gave him hot blankets and drinks to revive him . |
| 23 | Doshi , whose 33 tests brought him 114 wickets , including five-wicket hauls in an innings on six occasions , said : ‘ The great thing about Tufnell is that he is willing to experiment . |
| 24 | After Joplin 's death , Morgan 's notorious appeal won him many hearts , among them that of an unlucky waitress in Sausalito . |
| 25 | The journey of about 50 miles took him three days . |
| 26 | In reply , the Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces gave me certain assurances . |
| 27 | That mix-up caused us serious problems for the rest of the campaign because we had to be constantly reassuring the media that we would get them good positions . |
| 28 | How hot summers brought us stripped pines : Scientists now believe a dramatic loss of conifer needles which struck West German forests may have been caused by the weather , rather than pollution . |
| 29 | McManus 's own hot streak brought him four frames in a row including a vital 39 clearance in the fifth . |
| 30 | The Wolverines ' borrowed silks lent them invaluable seconds wherein to close with those guards and sever their throats before they could fire or even cry a warning . |