Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gentleness and kindness which they preached as the very foundation of its teaching , and as insisted on by Jesus Christ himself , now stands starkly contrasted with the history of cruelty and violence perpetrated over the centuries in the name of Christianity . |
| 2 | It was at St John 's College , Cambridge , which he entered in the summer of 1784 that matters really came to a head , however . |
| 3 | He kept firing his inexhaustible gun at us , shattering the entire rear of the car– Susan threw up enough concealed armour plate to keep us safe , but ricochets still twanged through the night . |
| 4 | Blue-bellied , porphyry-crowned musk and little lorikeets also flocked around the town and provided Gould with easy targets . |
| 5 | It 's no good just using simple words to describe each step in that argument , if the whole argument gets so convoluted by the time you finish the listener thought , ‘ Well , I understood the bits , but I did n't understand the whole . ’ |
| 6 | This Engels emphatically asserted in The Origin when he argues that communism would mean the end of the family as we know it and the liberation of women . |
| 7 | Unfortunately the canopies are locked by an odd-shaped chunky steel key , there is only one , and it stays firmly zipped in the pocket of Harry 's red flying overalls . |
| 8 | In the upland areas the introduction of the wages boards also led to the decline of hiring fairs and the gradual discontinuance of the practice of ‘ living in ’ . |
| 9 | He feels personally vindicated by the demise of all imperial adventures , the defeat of fascism and the disproof of the fundamental tenets of apartheid . |
| 10 | If on the other hand fertilisation of the egg has occurred and it becomes successfully implanted in the lining of the womb , levels of Progesterone will continue to increase throughout the pregnancy . |
| 11 | The whale catches also increased until a peak in 1965 when the Japanese caught no fewer than 26 986 whales . |