Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the animals began shouting at poor Anabelle . |
| 2 | They came as a lightning surprise to them when two hundred American planes came over the city clearly visible in the cloudless sky , the Italians kept separating in two camps because of fascist and non- fascist fleet ran around frantically trying to get fog machines working , trying to obscure the target but the fog prevented warships in the harbour for putting up an effective anti-aircraft barrage . |
| 3 | The video for the smash hit Walking On Broken Glass — this week 's No. 9 , features stunning period costume — and hundreds of candles . |
| 4 | The disc went missing for many years , and was the subject of at least one book . |
| 5 | Under McLaren 's tutelage , the Pistols began playing at private parties and the occasional pub , then regularly at the 100 Club in Oxford Street , building up an excitable following and a reputation for contrived mayhem . |
| 6 | Radio started in Europe shortly after the First World War , and the BBC began broadcasting in 1922 . |
| 7 | ‘ The telephones began buzzing with eager contributors ’ , he wrote three years later in his book Playpower , ‘ and what was once my merely exhibitionist impulse to impress a friendly gossip columnist soon gathered its own momentum . ’ |
| 8 | ( c. 36 ) Whereas outside the realm , the king needed warning of any rebellion by subject peoples , or any imminent attack , " inside the realm [ the vital point was to find out ] if the people ( populus ) in any part , region or corner of the realm was in a state of disturbance , then what was the cause of it , and if a complaint of the people was becoming serious or if a noise was being made about some injustice about which it was necessary for the general assembly to deal " . |
| 9 | The ships then set out to return to base at speed of 10km/h. at 8 p.m. the cutter increased speed to 20 km/h while the launch kept going at 10 km/h . |
| 10 | Even if the economy kept growing by six per cent a year until 2000 AD , real wages would fall three per cent from current levels . |
| 11 | This was so successful that the army stopped cycling in some districts . |
| 12 | Ever since the Sumerians , the Assyrians and the Persians began trading with other early civilisations thousands of years ago , Oman 's natural harbours have played an important role in world history . |
| 13 | The phones started ringing at 8.55 a.m . |
| 14 | The bequest financed bullbaiting for 162 years , until it was outlawed in 1823 . |
| 15 | So did did they think they were doing themselves a disservice then when they , maybe when they amalgamated , or when they became part of the boilermakers , or when the boilermakers started taking in various trades to approach the employers as a as a a black squad unit for wage rises and conditions and so on , or did they they Would they have preferred to have done it themselves do you think ? |
| 16 | Fears grew for the tens of thousands of pelicans which are in danger of dying of thirst in Australia , as the country began recovering from devastating floods . |
| 17 | Although Francis Berry 's involvement with the cellar came purely from his friendship with Lutyens , this must not be taken as favouritism Berry 's was one of the oldest wine merchants in the business ( the company started trading in 1699 ) , and their first royal warrant was given to them by Edward VII , an honour the firm holds to this day . |
| 18 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 19 | The NGC has maintained throughout that , although the existing line could technically cope with the Enron power , a new line was needed to ensure the system ran according to laid-down standards . |
| 20 | Immanuel Yelikovsky 's idea that the Earth stopped rotating in Old Testament times is attractive , as Martin Gardner points out in his recent Science , Good , Bad and Bogus , because it seems to verify the Old Testament . |
| 21 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 22 | The commission 's decision to allocate £1 million of its budget for hospital and community health services to support developments in primary care illustrates the imaginative approach now being adopted by managers who have broken free of a mind set concentrating on acute hospital services and have started to use their resources to respond to need and not demand . |
| 23 | He was walking with his mum in Chicago when two men in a car began firing at three others . |
| 24 | Dutch police have the power to confiscate a vehicle found speeding at 70 kilometres per hour more than the legal level . |
| 25 | That fancy feast at the Mamounia was a fitting end to a week spent loitering in hushed palace courtyards and lush palm-tree gardens , staring at the marble mosaic walls and the carved cedarwood ceilings in the palaces and in the Museum of Moroccan Art . |
| 26 | After a moment , the door swung open and a woman stood staring with big eyes in a pale face , her apron unable to conceal the fact that she was heavily pregnant . |
| 27 | NuTek is delivering operating system software on disk and in ROM , and offers a chip set consisting of three application-specific integrated circuits and a video controller chip to provide the principal logic functions of the Macintosh ; like Apple , it has licensed the NuBus from Texas Instruments Inc . |
| 28 | Occasionally , her brisk South London accent will give way to a Brooklyn drawl which speaks clearly of a childhood spent shuttling between extended family in London and New York . |