Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the elections that followed about a year later in 1979 the Awlad Amira ( who had ousted the Mannaia from office in 1976 ) lost control of thirteen of the fifteen popular committees . |
| 2 | And that meant quite a effect as far as the aborigines were concerned they had lost their territory ! |
| 3 | It no longer occurred to Folly to doubt that Luke was telling the truth — and she knew that she was concentrating on his explanation simply as a shield against the other questions that hovered only a breath away . |
| 4 | An enquiry , chaired by Mrs Justice Butler Sloss , was set up in July 1987 and reported exactly a year later ( DOH , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | He went downstairs with Dr Darnell and two others , and pulled aside the cloth just sufficiently for her to see the visible part of the face . |
| 6 | King Gotrek sent a blunt reply to Caledor saying he made pleas to neither Elf nor god and demanded twice the recompense originally asked because of the implied insult . |
| 7 | The um leatherworker came and took away the body very early one morning . |
| 8 | I knew when people were married and slept together a baby usually followed , but this did n't enlighten me about the facts of life . |
| 9 | He invited Tim to help himself , and Tim stretched out a hand and carried away a croissant so that the arrangement she had constructed lost its pinnacle . |
| 10 | After a supper of pea soup — ‘ One pea each , ’ the duty corporal quipped — and bully beef , he was quartered — and learning new words by the minute — in a large gymnasium that temporarily housed four hundred beds , each a mere two feet in width and set only a foot apart . |
| 11 | That Arthur 'ad stopped at a pub on 'is way to the church , 'e said 'e needed fortifyin' , and 'im and 'is best man both went in the pub an' stayed there a lot longer than they should of . |