Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually surfaced in the hospital kitchens , where , through his flirtatious manner with a fat lard-like female cook , he had managed to scrounge a free meal . |
| 2 | He knew the spectacular bores only occurred during the equinox periods , February , March , April , and August , September , October . |
| 3 | Whilst it was clearly not possible for news organizations to make many savings in editorial costs since they employ relatively few full-time journalists , they necessarily turned to the production areas . |
| 4 | There were thousands of the creatures flying above them and ominously silhouetted on the witch trees at the edge of the plain . |
| 5 | At first , she only worked on the household duties , especially the cooking . |
| 6 | By chance the introduction of better rigging more or less coincided with the gold discoveries in California . |
| 7 | The remaining taller dancers , called Les John Tiller Folies Stars , not only appeared in the production numbers with the rest of the cast but also had their own numbers . |
| 8 | Indeed , after the three defendants successfully appealed against the prison sentences she accused them of endangering British youth : |
| 9 | and I just got through the traffic lights first thing in the morning and there was two light |
| 10 | Far from dissuading the rodents , the smell of lavender positively encouraged them and they soon ate through the paper plugs . |
| 11 | Since diplomacy largely revolved around the family relationships of princely dynasties this meant that children had to expect to be betrothed early — and occasionally even married early . |
| 12 | The job she finally acquired during the summer holidays meant leaving home before the children and returning after them . |
| 13 | Some people call it the nook but you just sat on the jam stones . |
| 14 | The wind still howled through the chimney pots and rattled through the cracks of the window frames . |
| 15 | But though the contents still belonged to the family trustees , the house had been sold to British Coal . |
| 16 | She quickly pulled on the silk briefs , following with matching silk bra , short green- and peach-flowered culotte-skirt and a sleeveless cropped T-shirt in a toning shade of leaf-green . |
| 17 | It helped considerably that the ‘ batting order ’ always started with the Local Authorities ' Consortium . |
| 18 | Anyway , Irene always complained about the way lupins shed their petals all over the polished table . |
| 19 | He was gazing into his make-up mirror , playing the same game that he always did on the monitor screens in television studios — in other words , deciding which was his best profile . |
| 20 | Jessamyn lay flat on the contoured table as the Doc sliced away the facial bandages , still relaxed from the morph-plus shots she had been taking every day . |
| 21 | ‘ This is a promise that God gave to Abraham , ’ North said Reagan had told him , in the slightly hectoring tone he always had in the North dreams ; ‘ Who am I to say that we should not do this ? ’ |
| 22 | In that regard as in others , we wonder what the policy of Labour Members would be if , heaven forbid , they ever sat on the Government Benches . |
| 23 | The old divorce laws which once sat on the statute books were viewed with contempt even by many of those who made their living from them . |
| 24 | The point about this particular division of labour was that women , being outside the union and ignorant of the traditional battles over fat and lean , willingly complied with the work arrangements of the employers . |
| 25 | This data also contributed to the school profiles . |
| 26 | Pressure for reform also came from the labor unions . |
| 27 | Probably came under the heading gifts . |
| 28 | The most significant development is the gradual disappearance of crisis mortality ( Schofield 1972 ) , clearly graphed in the burial totals ( figure 1.4 ) . |
| 29 | This he clearly achieved at the world championships in Okinawa , Japan , last year . |
| 30 | They also broke with the gender conventions of male expertise and female beauty in that the three main presenters were a White male , a Black female , and a ( male to female ) transvestite . |