Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On my return late in the afternoon I saw two SS soldiers outside our front door . |
| 2 | Mummy I wanted another Kit Kat . |
| 3 | Brett parted with Boris Becker after a fruitful association which brought Grand Slam triumphs , including Wimbledon , with the German superstar saying : ‘ Bob needs a new challenge . ’ |
| 4 | The DP , founded in December 1990 [ see p. 37924 ] with a programme which included private land ownership and the depoliticization of the army , received most attention from the foreign media . |
| 5 | The government also released a study which showed that planning policies which reduced the need for people to travel could cut pollution and fuel consumption by up to 15 per cent over the next 20 years . |
| 6 | The military confrontation which represented this world order has to be viewed not as deterrence but as imaginary war . |
| 7 | The great Whale had turned its terrible gaze upon her , transfiguring her once-smooth skin into sheets of light which hid deeper firefly gleams , like the Northern Lights back on Earth . |
| 8 | Not only that , but they struck up a partnership which produced thirty championship races in six seasons . |
| 9 | These requirements were not satisfied in Schroeder because the contract was imposed on the plaintiff by a defendant who had greater bargaining power which he used oppressively . |
| 10 | But so far many thousands of man-hours later the killer who left 44-year-old Mrs Heron in a pool of blood on her living room floor has remained at large . |
| 11 | Lazaro Cardenas , the president who nationalised foreign oil firms in 1938 , is revered as a national hero , and his son , Cuauhtemoc Cardenas , leads the left-wing opposition party . |
| 12 | In winter the bare trees were florid with the purple and grey of pigeons , and in spring we buried dead baby sparrows under the soapsuds of fallen blossom . |
| 13 | To assess the potential contribution of lamina propria lymphocytes to measured metabolism we obtained peripheral blood lymphocytes from the heparinised blood of a patient having colonoscopy for polyp surveillance with centrifugation in Lymphoprep ( Flow Laboratories , Rickmansworth , UK ) . |
| 14 | In this pilot study we showed that self monitoring of hypertriglyceridaemia in patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus improved lipid profiles over six months . |
| 15 | ESSAY 7 — ; ‘ Their motives for social reform were far from benevolent , but in practice they created embryonic welfare states . ’ |
| 16 | On the rural side he had 180 tenant farmers , each with between 50 and 130 acres apiece ; and just as the Prince wanted the goodwill of his urban tenants , so too in the country . |
| 17 | Upstairs in the bedroom he found empty whisky bottles littering the floor . |
| 18 | It was at a height of nearly 3,000 metres & the air outside was well below freezing , but the lava tunnel was in an area of recent activity , and as a result it boasted beautiful underfloor heating . |
| 19 | Although the project was a disaster , costing France £10 million , and counter-productive in giving Greenpeace much-needed publicity about France 's nuclear tests , it at least gave the DGSE some confidence that if in the future it accepted another Henry II-type command it would have the backing of its politicians . |
| 20 | In 1908 however when Mr. Vernon S. Lovell presented his trophy it comprised two pewter quart pots and two George III candlesticks to be played for in a bogey handicap competition . |
| 21 | Nixon claimed that as President he had special executive privileges which allowed him to refuse access to the tapes . |
| 22 | During December of 1847 it was decided that the inhabitants deserved toilets and Joseph Braithwaite was given the contract which included 10 peat houses . |
| 23 | Jet Training consisted of an intensive two month course which provided sixteen hours simulation at FSI 's LaGuardia facility , followed by twenty-five hours flight time from Teterboro in JAL 's three Falcons ( 282 , 284 and 290 ) . |
| 24 | THE International Amateur Athletic Federation ( IAAF ) are seeking to overturn a US court decision which awarded 400 metres world record holder Butch Reynolds about £18 million in damages . |
| 25 | Boy I had that person finish . |
| 26 | Suspicious evidence relating to things other than the condition of the child I called secondary danger clues . |
| 27 | During its short period of administration , of less than ten months , it accomplished little of real importance — other than the passing of the Wheatley Housing Act which provided generous housing subsidies to both private and public builders and stimulated the council house building boom of the 1920s . |
| 28 | The government on June 2 ordered a fresh investigation into the cause of the air crash which killed former President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq in August 1988 [ see p. 36217 ] . |
| 29 | The Abyssinian crisis , referred to in the previous chapter , was the first really serious issue which moved British public opinion against fascism . |
| 30 | The network of ditches was in many cases originally designed to take advantage of the winter flooding of the rivers and enabled these areas to be managed as water meadows , a particular form of management which produced good quality hay crops , but is no longer practised or possible with the improvement of drainage and flood prevention . |