Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 2 | Then I remember that time when the tent blew down in the snowstorm and his sleeping bag went in the slush . |
| 3 | I do n't really understand it but the the apprentice went down in the pit of course and the older man was above and they worked this saw all this sawdust was coming |
| 4 | Back in Chalk Farm the crowds stumbled out into the dawn , past the shuttered Greek restaurants , the nearest thing to a chic London ice cream parlour , Marine Ices , the junk shops and cafes . |
| 5 | The cow was bled , pulled into a van and the peer drove off to the abattoir . |
| 6 | She laughed , and the veil blew out like a flag . |
| 7 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 8 | The Prince went back to the bible and put his hand on it . |
| 9 | I wonder how Manzoni must have felt as he gazed out of his window at the Palazzo Belgioioso and the comings and goings of Prince Albercio ; the Prince rode out of the square each day on a horse , dressed in a bright general 's uniform , in order to review the private bodyguard he equipped and maintained . |
| 10 | The princess , in a royal purple suit-dress , pushed on in front to sign the visitors ' book while the prince wandered off at the end , leaving his wife in his wake . |
| 11 | Then the wizard looked down at the six big coins in his hand . |
| 12 | The bike shot up in the air . |
| 13 | ‘ See yah around , ’ Billy bawled over his shoulder and waved as the bike took off towards the main Bristol road . |
| 14 | The bike drew up in the yard under the tree . |
| 15 | The programmes started off as the ‘ Education by Radio ’ series broadcast by the Roman Catholic station San Rafael . |
| 16 | The trial ground on through the long hot summer in Pretoria . |
| 17 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 18 | Together , the three of them removed the boards which formed the trough and the natron ran off in a tide of white powder on to the floor . |
| 19 | Brynllys has been farmed organically by Rachel 's family since 1942 , but until 1982 all the milk went off in the tanker with everybody else 's , putting the lie to the old chestnut that organic producers must have a premium . |
| 20 | This week the company went into receivership and the heart went out of the British fashion industry . |
| 21 | The motorspeeder journeyed on through the plains of Sakkrat . |
| 22 | The money ran out before the scheme 's completion , and the villagers found themselves obliged to borrow the rest . |
| 23 | The idea of the Temple went back to the time of Moses when God commanded a tabernacle ( i.e. a tent ) to be built in which to keep the Ark of the Covenant . |
| 24 | It was a stupid thing to have done ; I 'd moved my head far too quickly for it to look natural , and the buck shot off up the bank . |
| 25 | The case arose out of a letter sent by the Attorney General in the summer of 1988 to booksellers handling Spycatcher warning them they were in contempt of court , because an injunction had been obtained to stop publication of extracts of the book in several national newspapers . |
| 26 | The case arose out of a fatal road accident in Illinois , the plaintiff 's parents having been killed as a result of a head-on collision between their Volkswagen Rabbit and another vehicle . |
| 27 | The case arose out of the Executive Agreement concluded between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran which led to the eventual release of the hostages detained in Tehran from November 1979 to January 1981 . |
| 28 | The judge had told the jury of what they had to be satisfied before convicting any of the accused , but the case cried out for a direction which amounted to the reverse side of the coin , namely , that they should not convict any person who was in their charge simply because of his association with others . |
| 29 | The failure of the insurgents to secure the country 's political and economic nerve-centres , the provision of German and Italian military aid and the resistance put up by the defenders of Republican legality had turned the insurrection into a war whose duration or outcome no one could foretell . |
| 30 | ( a ) If the kind of damage suffered is reasonably foreseeable , it does not matter that the damage came about in an unforeseeable way . |