Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the rainforests belong to developing countries which have to resort to milking their most precious resource to make ends meet , and to pay back money lent to them by Western countries . |
| 2 | Almost two years after the beer orders went through the House , we are entitled to ask the Minister what good came of them at last . |
| 3 | I am reminded of the famous poem , by Robert Southey , about the battle of Blenheim , when little Peterkin asks : ’ But what good came of it at last ? ’ |
| 4 | The pigeon lay soft and warm on my belly , and I stood listening while my metabolism returned to something like normal . |
| 5 | He also caught a number of covert glances at himself : was that what a few moment 's conversation with a presidential aide did for you in this town ? |
| 6 | One young teacher working in a more conservative college spoke to me of this period with some amusement . |
| 7 | Only one in seven men did not help their wives at all in the professional/managerial , clerical and skilled classes , although , for the semi-skilled and unskilled , the proportion rose to one in four . |
| 8 | ‘ A 28-year-old girl came to me with terrible complications . |
| 9 | After 1980 it was possible for charities to reclaim tax paid on money covenanted to them for four years or more , not just at the standard rate of tax , but at the higher rate if individuals paid tax at the higher rate . |
| 10 | The number of vehicles recorded at a junction ranged from none to 105 , mean 10.4 . |
| 11 | So , for example , in the national survey of retirement conducted in 1977 , between the age groups of 50–9 and 60–73 , the proportion of women in junior and intermediate non-manual socio-economic groups fell from nearly half to nearly one-third , while the proportion in the unskilled group rose from one in ten to nearly one in four ( S. Parker , 1980 ) . |
| 12 | Deaconess Tilley glanced at it with simulated interest . |
| 13 | One career wife spoke about her exasperation when her husband listened to her with half an ear as he watched television . |
| 14 | The lacquered fingerboard felt to me like those few maple-boarded Les Pauls that Gibson made during the late '70s/early '80s . |
| 15 | The AOC No 6 Group complained to me about this , so I suggested that he keep the culprit for a week and then send him back . |
| 16 | The coroner glared at him through narrowed eyes . |
| 17 | The Collector found he could hardly breathe in the middle of this appalling sandwich ; a few inches from his nose the face of a dead sepoy grinned at him with sparkling teeth ; the Collector had the odd sensation that the man 's eyes were watching his efforts with amusement . |
| 18 | Our younger son Barney and his wife lived with us for several years , and their son was born while they lived with us . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been dealing with your affairs for some considerable time , Jenna , ’ he pointed out , as if it had been a dreadful chore wished on him by some unseen and malevolent spirit . |
| 20 | His wife sat with him for thirteen hours , and he clutched her hand as he struggled for life . |
| 21 | Excellent as he was in GoodFellas , you could n't help thinking that the understated menace required for the role came to him like second nature . |
| 22 | Erm the northern region audit preceded er the national audit er and has been presented by er Mr and its erm data collection differed from it in that erm all notes were reviewed at three months er by using a standard pro forma independently by two clinical coordinators and so would not be |
| 23 | The aunt looked at him in angry surprise . |
| 24 | Her father looked at her in open admiration . |
| 25 | A similar incident occurred with me in 1983 between Australia and Argentina from even further out from the goal-line , and on that occasion I felt Australia would definitely have scored a try but for a deliberate knock-on by the defenders and awarded a penalty try . |
| 26 | The word came from her with sudden and frightening force and it seemed to Creggan as if it was a burden he would carry always in this place . |
| 27 | So she could not let her go alone but must stand in the crowds being shoved , the smell of greasy food and litter breathed over her in this hot air , and the constant blare of noise grinding at her . |
| 28 | Bradbury & Evans published and had a share in HW ; this caused complications when CD quarrelled with them in 1858 , and for AYR he became proprietor and his own publisher , making use of Chapman & Hall as paid agents . |
| 29 | A guy in a bell-bottomed jumpsuit flew by me at some speed and struck the sidewalk . |
| 30 | The man looked at her with sudden amusement as a penny dropped . |