Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a child of the Thirties I heard much talk of J.P.M. and Fred Shaw ( the NCLC Organiser ) , Plebs and the Railway Service Journal — and the Manchester Guardian — were as much a part of my youthful literary life as Mickey Mouse and Film Fun . |
| 2 | From the rich they take larger sums by threatening to strip naked unless paid to leave ; terrified middle-class party-givers will give them anything as long as they go quickly . |
| 3 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 4 | ‘ With the advent of TV in the Fifties you got lots of kids ' badges , while in the Sixties they grew larger and more colourful , and in the Seventies you had weird punk badges . ’ |
| 5 | During the 1940s he directed many films for and British National . |
| 6 | Throughout the 1690s he advanced substantial sums through various channels . |
| 7 | Of the latter he gives horrific examples , which sicken him and enrage him ( though as much in Mrs Pound 's genteel English version as in Pound 's red-necked American ) . |
| 8 | In the latter she wasted little space on such theoretical concerns as the position of monarchy in modern society , concentrating instead on the more trivial aspects of palace life . |
| 9 | By the 1780s it had twelve employees ; and complaints against its interference with the correspondence of private citizens figured in a number of the cahiers presented to the States-General in 1789 . |
| 10 | What is certain , however , is that around the tail end of the '80s he met fellow Skin victim Jarboe , signed their other band Swans to a disastrous one-album major deal and cheered up . |
| 11 | What is certain , however , is that around the tail end of the '80s he met fellow Skin victim Jarboe , signed their other band Swans to a disastrous one-album major deal and cheered up . |
| 12 | Because that way it stays on if you do it the other way it 'll drop off it 's as simple as that , okay , cover the pad and as you spiral up the arm all you need to do is to cover about two thirds of what you 've just done before , just like a spiral , you find the bandages , the more you use those roller bandages of yours the worse they get to control because they lose their , you know , nice and stretchiness , so you just do , cover up the pad at the top , tie always on the top of the arm never underneath here . |
| 13 | Using the Macintosh 's mouse-driven user interface to the full it allows complete tyros to become publishers almost overnight . |
| 14 | Dressed up in his fireproof overalls , he was certainly going to earn some of the millions he made this morning . |
| 15 | To the first he gave five bags of gold , to the second , two bags , and to the third , one bag of gold . |
| 16 | In the former he had two 1sts , two 2nds , a 4th and a 7th to discard , a clear indication of his mastery in this regatta . |
| 17 | Bellends : I liked the fact that as both ends are the same you have four choices of entrance . |
| 18 | In Edward III 's wars in Scotland in the 1330s he made great use of hobelars and mounted archers who were paid more and required more expensive equipment than foot soldiers . |
| 19 | The difference between the two he calls transitory income ( Y T ) . |
| 20 | Erm well just as you come , that 's the best I felt all afternoon and I , all I was doing was playing peepo with them through me jumper , cos I games |
| 21 | Otto I founded the monastery of St Maurice at Magdeburg in 937 , and from 955 at the latest he intended this church to become an archbishopric , heading the missionary organization amongst the Slavs to the east of the River Elbe . |
| 22 | Yeah at the last you know that disco ? |
| 23 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |
| 24 | During the 1980s it bought Marine Midland , a commercial bank based in upstate New York ; Carroll , McEntee & McGinley ( CM&M ) , a primary dealer in American Treasury bonds ; and James Capel , a London firm of stockbrokers . |
| 25 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 26 | You had a choice of an eight or a three I had two jacks and a king you chose the three , the two turned up that would 've given you eight and a but you picked the three so that 'll give you more in the box as well an three hit your three hit your hand as well so |
| 27 | Well in Britain we decided we 'd be on the safe side , we 'll reduce that to a thousand we put another factor of ten in and what 's more i if one sheep in , in a whole flock is more than a thousand units , er then we will condemn the whole flock . |