Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When planted in threes or fives they make good clumps to grow and flower above other plantings . |
| 2 | He played the first 11 well enough , but the putts refused to drop apart from at the eighth and 10th , where first he faced little chips . |
| 3 | Between 1378 and 1407 he enjoyed thirty-five benefices ( although never more than twelve at once ) . |
| 4 | Between 1616 and 1629 she bore eight children , and with her husband was active in a Shrewsbury conventicle . |
| 5 | In this poem , as in 85 , the Poet claims that his Muse is ‘ tongue-tied ’ ; in 76 , 102 , 103 and 105 he gives conflicting reasons , all ingenious , why he writes such repetitive or uninspired poetry . |
| 6 | As dean of Winchester he was an active servant of James I. Between 1616 and 1621 he made repeated visits to Scotland on royal business , accompanying the king in 1617 , and attending the general assembly in Perth ( 1618 ) in support of the king 's ‘ Five Articles ’ of ceremonial reform . |
| 7 | In 1927 and 1929 he designed stylish bodies for the Hillman 12 hp and then Straight Eight chassis ; as technical adviser to the Aircraft Investment Corporation , which he joined in 1929 , he shared in the design of the Segrave Meteor , an advanced four-seater , twin-engined monoplane . |
| 8 | Between 1895 and 1898 he published regular articles in the Studio . |
| 9 | During the 1930s and 1940s she helped German refugees from Nazism . |
| 10 | The publisher Grant Richards encouraged her to turn to novel writing , and between 1907 and 1916 she produced six books which are the perfect expression of her personality : frivolous and witty , but with an underlying sense of melancholy . |
| 11 | Between 1914 and 1918 he spent six months among the Mailu and then two years among the people of the Trobriand Islands , both in south-east New Guinea . |
| 12 | Between 1894 and 1902 she bought twenty-four paintings from Colnaghi , always through Berenson . |
| 13 | Dressed in clothes subfusc and neat she favoured large hats with rampageous feathers . |
| 14 | For instance , between 1972 and 1982 I caught 35392 hoverflies of 89 species in the Malaise trap , but seven species accounted for more than two-thirds of the catch and 35 species were each represented by fewer than 10 individuals . |
| 15 | On his return to London he made his living as a novelist and freelance journalist ; between 1886 and 1889 he published ten novels . |
| 16 | Between 1906 and 1936 she published five volumes of poetry , seven novels , and a number of short stories . |
| 17 | Between 1987 and 1989 I conducted in-depth interviews with nearly forty parents of children with trisomy 21 ( so-called Down 's Syndrome ) who were between the ages of 2 and 7 . |
| 18 | Money 's our , we have the committee meeting , we agree changes procedures and as soon as possible we re-issue those procedures , monthly issues that . |
| 19 | As such it had serious defects : like all other Spanish parties , the Masons were distinguished by their domestic divisions . |
| 20 | We provide the Party with its broad base , we keep it on its feet and when necessary we keep those feet firmly on the ground . |