Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The force of it lifted Golden Girl 's stern and for a moment Trent feared that she would bury her bows in the sea and pitch-pole . |
| 2 | ‘ We kept everything quiet until it had all been confirmed and there was no risk of a repeat of what happened last time . ’ |
| 3 | The lord abbot here has been good enough to admit me to his confidence so far as is appropriate , since I was a witness of what happened this morning , but now you have cause to enquire further , as I understand . |
| 4 | That state was called the In Ovo , and on the other side of it lay four worlds , the so-called Reconciled Dominions . |
| 5 | There is a pointed or heart shaped apical papilla with one pointed oral papilla on each side usually arising on the oral plates . |
| 6 | Of her future home , she had a picture of a magnificent pillared entrance round which grew all manner of flowering creepers and vines ; through heavy double doors she could glimpse high-ceilinged halls , cool from the heat of the sun , tables groaning with subtropical fruits , and everywhere ornaments , paintings and reliquaries of inestimable value . |
| 7 | Nonetheless the 1991–92 figure clearly needed to be brought back to a more affordable level , and during the ‘ star chamber ’ exercise in the spring to which referred last year , the contract with Westminster Strategy ( our PR consultants ) was renegotiated , and the budgeted figure for the current year has been reduced to £170,000 . |
| 8 | But a small part of her cried that Ace seemed to have lost all sense of kindness and decency as far as she was concerned . |
| 9 | Those people who learned before the age of 20 years , the majority of whom had deaf parents ( some had deaf siblings ) , are able to translate effectively just under 60 per cent of the information on average . |
| 10 | ‘ But in truth there was much more at the back of it all , including the whole story of what happened this summer between Kee and me . ’ |
| 11 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 12 | The office was a large room on the first floor equipped with a desk on which perched three phones in different colours . |
| 13 | If you do n't know a priori where the break will come , right , only we can get some , you can get a handle where the break in this series may come by looking at the rolling regression like you did last week . |
| 14 | The findings suggest that the period during which developed human society has flourished may be a time of unusual stability . |
| 15 | The predominant over-view in this Department was that Television held a special kind of mystique ; that writing and producing drama for it demanded special levels of skill which were to be somewhere between the scopes of the Theatre and the Cinema . |
| 16 | Gerstner is praised for his achievement in cutting debt in half at RJR Nabisco Corp , a collection of mature low and medium technology businesses — but cutting the debt of the burdensomely leveraged company was the job of whoever became chief executive at RJR Nabisco : it 's much harder to define exactly what the job is at IBM . |
| 17 | Fourth , and lastly , feminist psychologists try to get a more balanced picture of what established psychological sex differences mean . |
| 18 | The ‘ Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation ’ was yet another pillar of the establishment behind which lurked fifth columnists . |
| 19 | On the one hand , the local situation and knowledge about it encouraged some people to retire at the same time as they were made redundant . |
| 20 | The legal concept of what constituted riotous assembly had proved utterly inadequate to the complexities of modem politics . |
| 21 | The rest of me knew this sort of thing worked . |
| 22 | But the rest of me ignored those details and clutched hungrily at the reassurance that she had n't really played a willing part in my humiliation . |
| 23 | None of the rest of us had that kind of head . ’ |
| 24 | The same unfortunate landlord returned a few days later as we were playing forfeits , and made no mention of the fact that one person was in a bra and panties with a colander on his head , another had wellingtons on filled to the brim with curdled milk and the rest of us had false moustaches drawn on with an indelible black magic marker . |
| 25 | ‘ So I decided I needed a solid-body guitar for regular playing , and this friend of mine had this Firebird . |
| 26 | A friend of mine had this Firebird — I did n't know what I was buying , and he did n't know what he was sellin |
| 27 | A doctor friend of mine found this home on Welfare Island where I could just observe old people . |
| 28 | In fact , on one occasion , a very close friend of mine found this step with a piece of carpet on it . |
| 29 | A quarter of us had four radio sets or more . |
| 30 | Will it be the Minister , the Secretary of State , the employers , the trade unions or some quango in which failed Tory Members of Parliament serve on inflated salaries ? |