Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , palaeontology had increased over the same periods , from 14 to 25 , not quite doubling . |
| 2 | Still the stitch continued to drop in the same area . |
| 3 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 4 | After the action had lasted for a few minutes , County Inspector Meharg , through a loudhailer , ordered : ‘ The police will hold their hands , please . ’ |
| 5 | The plan started to work within a few day he became shy and nervous of humans even at feeding times . |
| 6 | Nolan J said that the committee had to consist of the same people throughout . |
| 7 | His home had burned with the same anger that the men responsible had felt , the anger which Carrefour had striven to purge himself of . |
| 8 | Monica made her comment to Tweed when Buchanan and Warden had left after a few more minutes ' conversation . |
| 9 | It seemed louder , more raucous than usual , and she sighed at the prospect of another evening spent listening to the same arguments and bitter reproaches . |
| 10 | However , if all members of a group went swimming at the same time and left valuables unattended , that would be an unnecessary risk where no real precautions had been taken and would be a breach of the duty of care . |
| 11 | Familiarity bred business so it seemed , as established dealers with a limited clientele continued to deal with the same few people day after day , generating sometimes fantastic commissions for themselves , as well as token fines for the overtrading habits that ironically were tacitly encouraged . |
| 12 | He and the housekeeper continued to converse for a few minutes and finally he said , ‘ Very well , Mrs Pettifer , sherry at six . ’ |
| 13 | The organisation as a whole became sensitised to the many debates which faced women artists who were physically challenged . |
| 14 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 15 | It was so different from the rooms Xanthe and her father had taken in a former hôtel particulier of a family of the ancien régime , round a courtyard off the Rue St Honoré , with ormolu chests of drawers , lace-trimmed bolsters and a chiming clock on the writing desk in the small , light sitting room where stood striped chintz chairs with gilded lyre backs and a matching silk-covered settee . |
| 16 | Life appeared to continue largely as normal in the Libyan capital , and the warning seemed to amount to no more than the routine diplomatic tit-for-tat when countries expel each other 's envoys . |
| 17 | The walls of the craft began to buckle under the same kind of sideways force that was pressing in on her body . |
| 18 | The 24-year-old buxom blonde who ‘ gave her favours freely to young village schoolboys ’ was told by Mr Justice Sheldon , ‘ If a man had behaved in the same way with girls of this age he would have ended up with a long prison sentence ’ . |
| 19 | The way he had misled her , Blanche thought , was heinous enough if his loyalty had lain with the same country . |
| 20 | A similar incident had occurred at the same spot ten days earlier , though nobody was hurt then . |
| 21 | ( A similar attack had occurred on the same sub-prefecture in May 1985 — see p. 34927 . ) |
| 22 | But the overlap in dates — Tolkien 's book began to appear in the same year as Lucky Jim — is fortuitous , not significant , and the overlap in time was not a collision of rival forces , rather the side-by-side running of parallel tracks . |
| 23 | When junior health minister Tim Yeo launched the Mansell report on services for people with learning difficulties with challenging behaviour a couple of months ago , he made the aside that perhaps his audience were wondering why there was need of such a report , given the work the King 's Fund had done in the same area over the years . |
| 24 | Her world had shrunk to the few things which still had interest for her . |
| 25 | The branch line had survived for a few years as a single line until its final demise . |
| 26 | ( However , Peter Burge , the former Australian batsman who was the ICC 's match referee throughout this series , said afterwards that there would have been time for one over if a wicket had fallen in the same Tufnell over . ) |
| 27 | It seems that Kerr J at first instance had come to the same conclusion as Lord Denning via a public policy route . |
| 28 | Jekyll 's servant had received by the same post a letter similar to mine , and he was waiting for me with the locksmith . |
| 29 | A day that had begun with the parade affirmation had to terminate in the same style . |
| 30 | Flowers of emerald and trees of silver decorating a ground made of powdered gold had changed in a few helpless throbs into body-crushed vegetation , stained ferns and foxgloves , droopy-leaved sallow , buckthorn , white-beam and goat willow . |