Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The taxi ride from the airport to the little village where she was staying , only six kilometres from Nice , had been uncomfortable because the air-conditioning in the car had broken down three days before her arrival and was waiting to be repaired , and all in all her last vestiges of good humour had finally bitten the dust as she 'd stood in front of the house and realised that it had n't finished being built . |
| 2 | Mr Patten spent much of yesterday emphasising that he wanted to respect local decisions , and that once the regions and his department had worked out overall allocations , it was for local electorates to decide where they put the bricks and mortar . |
| 3 | They finished the session , stripped the gearbox and found a tooth had broken off second gear . |
| 4 | Reuters news agency , quoting Chinese sources , reported on Feb. 6 that a group of workers calling themselves the China Free Union Preparatory Committee had posted out 2,000 copies of their anti-government manifesto for the organization , modelled on Poland 's Solidarity . |
| 5 | Jo and Maggie and some of the others from work had gone back last week and met them again . |
| 6 | A curfew imposed in parts of Florida in late August in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew [ see pp. 39044 ; 39088 ] was finally lifted on Nov. 16 ; two days earlier the National Guard had shut down post-hurricane operations in the state . |
| 7 | Ms Hargreaves admitted that one potentially lucrative source of sponsorship had dried up two days previously , when two-year-old Kate stepped out of nappies for the last time . |
| 8 | The accident had brought about certain changes in our house . |
| 9 | By 1920 it was appreciated that the Great War had brought about many changes , particularly in Europe and around the Mediterranean area ; Europe 's domination of the world had been weakened , and there was a marked decline in ‘ colonisation ’ , as well as a gradual change from ‘ British Empire ’ to ‘ British Commonwealth ’ , although it took another war to finalise that process . |
| 10 | When Richard Baxter returned to Kidderminster in 1647 he found the Civil War had brought about some changes which were helpful to his ministry . |
| 11 | Considering his band had clocked up four months on a promotional treadmill that had become steeper and faster the more ‘ Nevermind ’ sold , he looked in pretty good shape . |
| 12 | What annoying snag had cropped up this time ? |
| 13 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 14 | His own sources among the Altun had picked up vague hints of another conception upon which Sidacai had drawn or to which he had been led . |
| 15 | At the subsequent AGM of the Alliance , Charles Ward argued that following the electoral truce of the war years conscientiously observed by the Alliance but not its opponents , the organisation had made up lost ground through steady educative work , and was now able ‘ to get in closer touch with the people ’ ( SE 12 February 21 ) . |
| 16 | As in 1933 , he accused the Jews abroad of stirring up agitation and boycotts against Germany , and claimed that this had made an impact on Jews inside Germany itself , whose public provocative behaviour had stirred up countless complaints and calls for action by the government . |
| 17 | John Pain ( flying P3731 ) : ‘ This was a brawl with some 15 CR 42s in which the entire flight got mixed up some miles out to sea at about 18,000 feet between St. Paul 's Bay and Sliema . |
| 18 | He was disappointed , too , that his father had given up artistic ideals in the pursuit of money . |
| 19 | Elections were to be contested up to the level of Dáil Éireann when the movement had built up sufficient support . |
| 20 | This month had ushered in substantial price rises on basic food items like rice , oil , pork and flour . |
| 21 | At the beginning , the malais had wiped out whole villages . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , Cecil Parkinson , the Secretary of State for Transport , said the Government had ruled out any idea of helping to fund the ailing project . |
| 23 | The Economist referred to the device of ‘ calling in a High Court judge to write incredible economic nonsense ’ , but whatever view is taken of the justice or the wisdom of the report which recommended a considerable wage increase and which formed the basis of the settlement , the impression given was that the government had set up this enquiry to produce a report which would enable them to yield to the miners ' claim without total loss of face . |
| 24 | The anonymous call had offered up two names for the Jabelman murder : Iain MacPherson and Tommy somebody . |
| 25 | The medieval Church had laid down categorical rules about the impropriety of Christians enslaving other Christians but these rules were waived when it became a matter of enslaving black Africans . |
| 26 | Sir Hugh said the Nelson affair had thrown up some difficulties in source intelligence work . |
| 27 | A corresponding survey , carried out in Sweden in 1981 , found that orientation courses had only been evaluated in 8 libraries of 34 , one-third of the libraries had evaluated courses in manual information retrieval and about half the libraries with courses in computerized information retrieval had carried out some form of evaluation . |
| 28 | Work preparing the ‘ Marco Polo ’ story for the studio had taken up more time and resources than was originally envisaged . |
| 29 | Hess commanded a troop ship during the Second World War and the vessel 's echo sounder had traced out curious mountains on the floor of the Pacific . |
| 30 | Her ex-husband had walked out one day for unspecified reasons , never to be seen again . |