Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [noun] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | G. agrees that the offender has probably escaped prosecution because of his violent and aggressive demeanour which made G. think first of his personal safety . |
| 2 | As Donald Davie has remarked , his concept of a minority culture was modelled on the ‘ gathered church ’ of the Dissenters — a communion of saints — and the irreplaceable charm of Scrutiny to the post-war undergraduate lay ultimately in the simple fact that on every issue it made things look simple : ‘ a present of perhaps a dozen authors or books or whole periods and genres of literature which I not only need not but should not read . ’ |
| 3 | In a side which included three players under 20 , it was 19-year-old David Hagan who stole the points and the glory , with a brilliant goal in a match which saw Hibs offer little resistance . |
| 4 | It was a happy phrase which made people feel better , and it caught on at once ; and it has remained as a convenient label to cover the series of domestic reforms which the Roosevelt administration introduced between 1933 and 1938 . |
| 5 | The appointment , which was controversial in its own right , was part of a wider constitutional controversy which saw Mulroney appoint 24 new senators within a month . |