Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas previously each local authority had access to its own business rate revenue , now the central government collected all this revenue and redistributed it to local authorities in proportion to the local population . |
| 2 | She sat opposite him as he leaned back in his seat and observed her through gold-rimmed spectacles , and she still felt uneasy with this man . |
| 3 | The International Herald Tribune of April 28 reported that the US government had for more than two years had evidence that Iraq had diverted food purchased under a US$5,500 million aid programme and exchanged it for Soviet-made arms in Jordan , Turkey and the Soviet Union , including nuclear technology according to a confidential US document dated Oct. 13 , 1989 . |
| 4 | Jessamy stood in the doorway and watched him in angry astonishment . |
| 5 | Suspected Sendero guerrillas threw dynamite into his car and sprayed it with machine-gun fire . |
| 6 | The authors who began to write about rape and related it to male power , male supremacy and male sexuality , questioned what they saw to be the essentialist constructions of female sexuality which continued to predominate within the age of sexual revolution . |
| 7 | Matthew had made his fire plan and cleared it with chief officer of the Wellingham fire brigade . |
| 8 | I put down my lunch and followed him in frantic pursuit . |
| 9 | His parents were keen on the work ethic and equipped him with impeccable manners . |
| 10 | It denied Mr Yeltsin the right to hold a referendum and accused him of stirring confrontation . |
| 11 | Charnos have taken the microfibre story and turned it into different leg looks — shiny , matt and suede — using the softer , finer handle and textures now available , the products can achieve that smoother than silk feel . |
| 12 | It was also rumoured that Lloyd George might advocate protectionist policies and Baldwin make have called the general election and fought it on protectionist policies in order to undermine any such move by Lloyd George . |
| 13 | He went up to the Palestinian and shot him at close range , the army said . |
| 14 | Thus it might be that the old English case of Woodhouse v Brotherhood 1972 ] ICR 186 would be decided the same way under the Directive , because the facts , as found in that case , were that the transferee employer used the factory and the machines to produce different products from those made by the transferor and sold them in different markets . |
| 15 | Encouraged by these findings we have formulated a bismuth enema and compared it with 5-ASA enemas in patients with active distal colitis to examine the therapeutic effect . |
| 16 | In Sliwa 's last stunt he faked his own kidnapping and blamed it on off-duty police officers . |
| 17 | One was from the Arisleus Vision : ‘ With so much love did Beya embrace Gabricus that she entirely absorbed him in her own nature and dissolved him in inseparable atoms . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ When Napoleon besieged Jaffa , ’ Damiani said , ‘ my ancestor Anton Damiani interceded on behalf of the Muslim population and protected them from French anger — we have an official certificate from the sharia court to this effect . ’ |
| 19 | Such courses , especially those for women only , increased women 's confidence and introduced them to new ways of interpreting their experience . |
| 20 | The orgasmic bellowing began when I got the car into a slide as the track began to get wet with rain and caught it with opposite lock . |
| 21 | So much so , that he recently purchased a massive ex-display tank , set it up in his dining room and stocked it with wild-caught Malawis , many of which are now breeding regularly . |
| 22 | The brunette gift wrapped a bomb and handed it to grateful squaddies on point duty in Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | ‘ After a while the sun beat down upon the mist and filled it with light and warmth , and a wind blew and the mist thinned and cleared . |
| 24 | If there was a very large output , perhaps from some other part of the world , and buyers would offer only a lower price , such as £110 per tonne , the EEC either paid their farmers the difference , of £16 , or bought the surplus grain and stored it for future use . |
| 25 | But the only thing there was a fragile gecko , which clung splay-footed to the wall and watched me with cloudy eyes . |
| 26 | A fat white cat sat on a wall and watched them with sleepy eyes . |
| 27 | She made coffee in a dented silver pot and served it in dark-green cups with gold rims and gold handles , cups she 'd stolen from home . |
| 28 | Experts say the house windows ‘ cushioned ’ the impact and saved him from instant death . |
| 29 | Then she went to the sink and filled it with lukewarm water and made the water frothy with soap-powder . |
| 30 | For more than four years he rented a luxury flat near his home at a cost of £385 a week and showered her with expensive gifts . |