Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relating that to Labour 's ‘ unprecendented mass conversion ’ to moderation in Brighton last week , Mrs Thatcher said she did not believe her opponents now stood for home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude . |
| 2 | Hortense and her sons also went into exile , for all the Bonapartes were banished from France in perpetuity , by a decree of Louis XVIII , and as a result of the hostility of the major European States Hortense had great difficulty in finding some corner of Europe where she could set up home . |
| 3 | If Aunt Emily had looked shocked before her eyes now dilated in horror . |
| 4 | Benny tried to concentrate on the Doctor 's words while her eyes continually strayed towards Elaine . |
| 5 | Their sympathies automatically lay with Britain 's enemies , whoever they might be ; a range of people from Hitler 's Nazis , to the Kennedy tribe in America . |
| 6 | Their fleets soon arrived at Constantinople and the war promised to be the most wide-ranging since the fall of the first Napoleon . |
| 7 | Ten per cent of its finances still came from government sources in the early sixties . |
| 8 | As the English were forced back , their archers belatedly came into action , but showered more arrows into the backs of their own troops than into Bruce 's . |
| 9 | Some of his opponents evidently went beyond words . |
| 10 | Five of his associates also went on trial . |
| 11 | His parties certainly looked like orgies . |
| 12 | The king and his counsellors therefore watched for portents that could be interpreted , so that disasters might be foreseen and , if possible , averted . |
| 13 | His housekeepers certainly seemed to rate more consideration than his bed-partners . |
| 14 | Whether his ships ever sailed against England , as William of Jumièges claims , is another matter . |
| 15 | During the next few years , the subject was increasingly to preoccupy him , and when his thoughts finally appeared in print , they were concerned with ‘ culture ’ : the word civilization does not feature at all . |
| 16 | That would explain why his victims all stayed in bed as he blasted away with a handgun in the luxury , ranch-style home near San Diego , California . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've known each other all our lives — our parents even went to college together . |
| 18 | ‘ Your ancestors probably lived in holes like this , ’ said Grimma . |