Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only drawback to the course was the way my calves refused to move first thing in the morning ; the pluses ? — meeting and making new friends and returning home refreshed and energised in mind and body . |
| 2 | I dared not move until my eyes had made more sense of the place . |
| 3 | My feet had ceased diplomatic relations with the rest of me . |
| 4 | My parents had attended such feasts when thousands , entering in relays , gorged on raw meat , hacked in turn from the bleeding carcases of oxen carried on poles past rows of squatting men . |
| 5 | Neither of my parents seemed to have any friends , and tended to talk disparagingly of neighbours or colleagues . |
| 6 | Three years after I was born my parents decided to add another member to our family , my brother , . |
| 7 | Yet all my friends wanted to find another way of being . |
| 8 | My babies had become thorny bully boys , and I found that my garden was not so large after all . |
| 9 | Until we discovered your football club , Saturday afternoons for me and my mates meant spraying rude words on the side of the Co-op or hijacking shopping trolleys . |
| 10 | Although their views appeared to carry little weight , they had raised a fundamental question about the relationship between tax allowances and cash allowances which remains a controversial issue . |
| 11 | In our main 1979 survey , 11 per cent of credit buyers said that their contracts had included some form of insurance against being unable to pay , while 19 per cent did not know ( Appendix I , Table 35 ) . |
| 12 | Two of them favoured refugees ; their conditions of work had to be at least as good as those offered to British workers , and their employers had to provide real training as opposed to handing out menial jobs to what was essentially cheap labour . |
| 13 | Following France 's defeat by Germany in the war of 1870-1 and her loss of Alsace and Lorraine , her strategists had devised numerous plans in the event of another war . |
| 14 | Some ten per cent of theses in the present study are regarded as unproductive in that their authors failed to publish related papers ; the original theses were never consulted , and the theses have never been cited . |
| 15 | A few weeks before , her brothers had deposited some things in her kitchen for safe-keeping , and while they were there Barbs had called and had asked , in her friendly and inquisitive fashion , what the cardboard boxes contained . |
| 16 | Fleischmann and Pons in their lectures liked to use this example to present electrochemistry as ‘ high energy chemistry ’ . |
| 17 | Her burns had left pale patches on her body , like distemper on windfallen fruit , and her pelvis mended in a twisted shape , leaving one leg four inches shorter than the other , and shooting pains through her back and shoulders when she moved . |
| 18 | Hopeful signs that consumers were at last starting to put their hands in their pockets helped to breathe new life into the brewers and stores . |
| 19 | Equally , however , their customers had outgrown locally-based suppliers . |
| 20 | But by August her feelings had turned full circle , she wrote that she wanted to kill both Hendry and his manager Ian Doyle — the nightmare had begun . |
| 21 | Reform , the young protesters stressed , was good but should be extended into the political sphere , as their predecessors had demanded many times before . |
| 22 | For by the 1950s and 1960s , with the connivance of money-grubbing speculators and complacent politicians , their theories had become architectural orthodoxy . |
| 23 | Greenpeace said that its members had found rusty drums — labelled " industrial goods for further use " — at a barracks in Rovno , Ukraine , containing liquid mercury , old paints made with heavy metals , pure DDT , hydrogen cyanide and other hazardous chemicals . |
| 24 | For a second their glances leapt to meet each other , locking for a heart-stopping moment in a recognition that seemed more than merely superficial . |
| 25 | In fact , the British had hardly any ( often fewer than two to a battalion ) but their infantrymen had mastered rapid rifleshooting . |
| 26 | Her preparations had taken six weeks . |
| 27 | THE JAPANESE firm , Hitachi has pleaded guilty in San Francisco to charges that the company and two of its employees conspired to send stolen IBM trade secrets to Japan . |
| 28 | Like his predecessors , Philip VI used the obligations of liege homage , and the threat of confiscation of the duchy if Edward defaulted on these obligations , as a means of putting pressure on the English king when his policies appeared to threaten French interests . |
| 29 | When she got back to the kitchen , Finn was reading an old newspaper , seated on the table and eating dry chunks of bread gouged from a loaf in the crumb of which his fingers had left grey prints . |
| 30 | If his taxes did deter hard work , the economy would wilt , jobs would be lost and he and his colleagues would run short of the tax revenue for financing their favourite causes . |