Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , a quarter of the principal carers provided daily help with getting up , washing face and hands , and going to bed ; the majority also helped with shopping , enabling the sufferer to go out , finances , washing , ironing and house cleaning . |
| 2 | The remainder either stayed at home or moved voluntarily to a relative , neighbour , or friend . |
| 3 | The Prince either stormed through life like a tornado or idled with a lack of haste that was almost feline . |
| 4 | The case never went to trial and was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount now known as the Wallis Foundation Fund , with which the Cezanne was purchased . |
| 5 | But the case never came to court . |
| 6 | The missing boy was n't really interfering with the progress of the Connon case , because the progress only existed in theory . |
| 7 | Through the Double Cross Committee , usually known as the XX Committee , these turned spies sent back to Germany a steady stream of fictitious information garnished with sufficient truth to give it credibility , which the Germans apparently accepted without question . |
| 8 | The babble gradually subsided into near-silence . |
| 9 | The story only waned in popularity when Mandela was released : why hang on to the book , if it existed , at the time when it was most likely to sell ? |
| 10 | The authorities then appeared to back down , accepting the students ' own nominees . |
| 11 | Cross-references forward , whether from OED to itself or from Supplement to itself , are either non-existent , inaccurate , or ( occasionally ) ghosts ( because the object of the cross-reference never materialized in print for some reason ) . |
| 12 | The small green envelope with the harp generally came with news of sudden death . |
| 13 | Until 1980 the vote always went against television , although the margin was narrow . |
| 14 | The Tans immediately began to prance around him , laughing and howling . |
| 15 | The bear apparently fled in terror , yelling and howling , but contemporary accounts tell a different story , where the bear in fact knocked Lambert down and he was so fat he could not get up ! |
| 16 | The branches above murmured in supplication and let through a sudden , spiralling shaft of light . |
| 17 | The interview inside revolved around vegetarianism . |
| 18 | But although test boreholes were successfully sunk at Altnabreac in Caithness in November 1975 , the programme quickly ran into opposition elsewhere . |
| 19 | That promise would not be implemented if the Opposition ever came to power . |
| 20 | And given the extensive fear of denunciation for critical or defeatist comment , it is hardly surprising that negative remarks about the speeches rarely came to light . |
| 21 | The contest also ended in disaster for 12 men from Ford Open Prison , Sussex . |
| 22 | A new entrance capable of allowing these larger ships into Imperial Dock was completed in September while the fitting out quay at Victoria Shipyard incorporating new gates on the slipways also came into use during the year . |
| 23 | ‘ Pole is important , even if the statistics show that no more than 50 per cent of the winners here started from pole in the last 10 years , ’ he said . |
| 24 | The younger men amongst the Jews often roared with laughter when the older men , the original immigrants , talked of some experience or incident , for the young bucks were first generation British and educated . |
| 25 | But if the lizards ever took to forest or crag life , the fringes would be a preadaptation to leaping and parachuting , and — perhaps — a nudge towards the evolution of gliding , independently of the modern flying lizard draco volans . |
| 26 | Richard squinted up at the sun then fell into step beside her . |
| 27 | In the consideration given to the new policy , the position of the CNAA inevitably came under scrutiny , particularly what now appeared to be the permanent and powerful role it would develop in relation to the formally established public sector . |
| 28 | These three ingredients collectively formed the background in which natural hazards research crystallized , although as noted earlier the origins clearly arose in North America and particularly derived from the work of Gilbert White at the University of Chicago , later at the University of Colorado , and leader of the Commission on Man and Environment ( 1968- ) of the International Geographical Union . |
| 29 | ‘ The winter only began in spring of last year , ’ said Kasper , ‘ but I 'm cautious about changing our whole programme , even if we could . |
| 30 | The law reportedly came in response to recommendations by the United States authorities that controls on cash transactions similar to those in force in the USA should be adopted by other industrialized countries . |