Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some corners missed part of it altogether , none more so than Low Birk Hatt Even during the last decade before the dawn of the twenty-first century , the prospect of water on tap there was still problematical . |
| 2 | He explained , tersely , to Edward Carrington what their cargo was and what it would mean if German scientists got hold of it . |
| 3 | They were subject to the warden 's authority , and in some forests swore fealty to him . |
| 4 | In here the wooden benches had padding on them , and the firelight flickered on the horse brasses and old muskets that festooned the walls . |
| 5 | The melancholy of the early hours took hold of him . |
| 6 | She wandered through corridors , completely lost and tired , until a short , elderly man with a red face and gold-rimmed spectacles took pity on her . |
| 7 | And maybe he had other outside boats took fish to them too . |
| 8 | In Tizard 's view , fostering does not offer children the security of adoption : the uncertainty disturbed the children and contacts with the natural parents aroused anxiety in them . |
| 9 | She was very brave , he thought , to wear the sari and shop in the Indian shops and have her Bengali lessons when all these things drew attention to her . |
| 10 | Du Camp also adds , more generally , that ‘ when these dreams took possession of him , he became almost rigid , and reminded one of an opium-eater in a state of trance . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the issue was discussed publicly in the winter of 1936 – 37 , when Carlist and Falangist newspapers published articles about it in December 1936 and January 1937 . |
| 12 | About a dozen men took charge of me and 11 other foreigners.I never saw more than 20 armed men in the hotel . |
| 13 | All three tubes had heroin in them . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ These men had terriers with them , which are put down setts in illegal badger hunting . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ These men had terriers with them which are put down setts in illegal badger hunting . |
| 16 | All field-workers took weapons with them , and would venture forth to collect firewood only in large parties . |
| 17 | All those cottages had people in them , Patrick realized , people and televisions and plates of fried fish and dogs and Wellington boots at the back door . |
| 18 | And people she thought she knew , like Mr Bishop , Gazzer : those doors had pits behind them , waiting to trap the unwary . |
| 19 | Some 80,000 customers bought cards from us last year , and even with a 60p average unit price , this is turnover not to be sneered at . |
| 20 | As the mechanics wheeled it away , contemptuous spectators threw pennies at it . |
| 21 | Fierce Eyes kicked snow at him and laughed , then backed away , to guard his meat . |
| 22 | Smell of slashed leaves grew rank about us |
| 23 | This report made such an impact that two other groups wrote answers to it . |
| 24 | When the TUC representatives on the Wilson Committee argued along these lines , the financial institutions poured scorn on them : how can you ‘ force-feed ’ industry with investment funds ? |
| 25 | Her small round eyes darted glances at them . |
| 26 | And neither of the other ships changed position as we fled past them towards deep space . |
| 27 | Below them the vestibule was lit , dimly , by the electrolier , in which only two candles had bulbs in them . |
| 28 | Needless to say the Spanish settlers brought missionaries with them and successful attempts were made to impose the Catholic liturgy on a people with their own living religious tradition . |
| 29 | Forest wardens , verderers , regarders , foresters and sworn jurors made presentments before them of offences against vert and venison . |
| 30 | He was permitted to take his family with him , but the only intellectual companionship he found was among the Catholic missionaries : the local inhabitants remained strangers to him . |