Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [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 | The babble gradually subsided into near-silence . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The small green envelope with the harp generally came with news of sudden death . |
| 11 | Until 1980 the vote always went against television , although the margin was narrow . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | The interview inside revolved around vegetarianism . |
| 14 | But although test boreholes were successfully sunk at Altnabreac in Caithness in November 1975 , the programme quickly ran into opposition elsewhere . |
| 15 | That promise would not be implemented if the Opposition ever came to power . |
| 16 | The contest also ended in disaster for 12 men from Ford Open Prison , Sussex . |
| 17 | Richard squinted up at the sun then fell into step beside her . |
| 18 | ‘ The winter only began in spring of last year , ’ said Kasper , ‘ but I 'm cautious about changing our whole programme , even if we could . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Under authority invested in the Minister for Home Affairs , the Act also provided for internment without trial , the imposition of curfews , the serving of exclusion orders against named persons , the prohibition and distribution of certain forms of literature , the banning of various associations and the death penalty for causing or attempting to cause an explosion likely to lead to injury . |
| 21 | Problems arose mainly because the Tribunals of local worthies charged with enforcing the Act usually disagreed with Parliament 's intentions , and sent men who were obviously conscientious objectors into the Army . |
| 22 | Five years or so passed and the boy even went to school there . |
| 23 | When he was seven the boy almost died of typhoid . |
| 24 | The session also restored to official use the red , blue and orange tricolour flag of the independent Armenian state which existed in 1918-20 . |
| 25 | ‘ But Headmistress , the child only arrived in school this morning and came straight to the classroom … ’ |
| 26 | She turned and walked the long clicking walk down the floor ( the shop strangely quenched of sound and movement ) , tugged back hard on the glass door and with a shake of shiny hair had passed into the random straggle of the street . |
| 27 | The room again exploded with laughter . |
| 28 | The room immediately buzzed with activity as we all scribbled down voluminous notes . |
| 29 | As the room slowly slipped into darkness , the lowering skies bringing on an early evening , Patrick sat by the window , staring out onto the streets below , listening to the noises in the bathroom as Jane gently hummed to herself . |
| 30 | We threw stun grenades into the room then went in firing . ’ |