Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [vb past] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both country 's leaders were from the same generation Clinton is 46 , Major 49 and came up the hard way , she added . |
| 2 | W H Smith acquired it in 1903 and carried out a major expansion and refit in 1907 . |
| 3 | The Soviet parliament voted the address unconstitutional and set up a special committee , dominated by Communist hardliners , to send a formal appeal to the Russian parliament . |
| 4 | It is difficult to define accurately what it was like for , although it still exists , it has been damaged , altered and restored so the original design has been obscured . |
| 5 | Duncan and Lisburn 's Neil McGrann were side by side after 50 metres , but it was the Ards swimmer who produced that little bit extra and came home a comfortable winner in a time of 1.10.13 . |
| 6 | Guruji took over the building in 1963 and hung out a simple sign with the inscription Manasik Chikitsa Kendra — ‘ Centre for the Treatment of Mental Illnesses ’ . |
| 7 | He came to Europe in 1948 and returned again the following year when his familiar blue and yellow Maserati was a regular sight at Grand Prix on the continent . |
| 8 | His attitude was childlike and brought out the full force of her anger against the vultures waiting beyond the door . |
| 9 | Improv provides business an professional users with a unique set of capabilities for dynamic viewing and analysis , and , for building spreadsheets that can be easily reused , modified and shared over a long lifecycle . |
| 10 | Rain lifted each and saw how the dark blobs of their shadows stretched to magnified shapes as she held and turned them . |
| 11 | However , the Government 's approach , conditioned by the sole objective of reducing expenditure , was far too narrow and attacked only the soft underbelly without reaching the heart of the problem . |
| 12 | Instead it capped the advanced further education pool for 1979–80 and set up a Working Group to examine the future management of the pool . |
| 13 | By the time Mary was ready to go , her uniform was dry and showed only a faint mark or two . |
| 14 | Furious that a rare kind word from Nathan Bryce could so easily demolish the façade of efficiency and confidence she had worked so desperately hard to maintain , she blinked hard and sucked in a deep breath . |
| 15 | She never moved as I nipped hard and winkled out the offending obstruction . |
| 16 | Heavy dark green velvet curtains were partly drawn across these and allowed only a single column of light to enter the room . |
| 17 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 18 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 19 | He missed four short ones in a 74 but rolled home a 25-foot birdie putt on the last green . |
| 20 | The villa at Snodland was excavated in 1964 and covered quite a considerable area stretching for several hundred feet along the bank of the river , the site now occupied by the Lead Wool Co. and the Gas Works . |
| 21 | The five permanent members of the UN Security Council ( France , China , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States ) held their sixth meeting on the Cambodian problem on Aug. 27-28 and worked out a possible framework for a solution . |
| 22 | Considering that he had just made a pointless journey of several thousand miles , the young man seemed remarkably equable and spent almost the entire journey sitting cross-legged , spooning purple yoghurt into his mouth from an enormous jar and reading a novel by Thomas Mann . |
| 23 | Fen stopped short and pulled out a folded map from his pocket and spread it out before her , stabbing at it with his finger . |
| 24 | As the girl tilted her face up to her tall mother her hat fell off and , the mother 's fingers clasping the head , the hair came loose and fell down the black coat like a cascade of shining water , as soft-looking as a swathe of new mown grass . |
| 25 | PREMIER John Major yesterday assured the Chancellor his job was safe and ruled out a festive Cabinet shake-up . |
| 26 | The CUMS celebrated its first local congress in October 1982 and drew up an organizational structure to give equal representation to all the organizations of women which wished to participate . |
| 27 | But with only ten minutes remaining yet another slip-up handed Lawther the opportunity to make it 3-2 and set up an exciting finish which should never have been . |
| 28 | Their activity amazed and baffled even the sceptical Bernier : ‘ They tell any person his thoughts , cause the branch of a tree to blossom and to bear fruit within an hour , hatch an egg in their bosom within fifteen minutes , producing what ever bird may be demanded , and make it fly around the room . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Corden took over as chairman in 1989 and pulled off an immediate coup by appointing Brian Little as manager . |
| 30 | The church is Romanesque and approached along a tree-clad path that makes a very pleasant change from the more normal city approach — straight off the road . |