Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hooded eyes surveyed her with frank appreciation mingled with amusement . |
| 2 | And it was a record that came to be seen and recognised by the local electorate , in particular the newly enfranchised women , not least through the efforts of Labour candidates to exploit it to political advantage . |
| 3 | I was selling houses and apartments on a commission basis , and I think that my English accent stood me in good stead . |
| 4 | The political implication is that blacks should be self-assertive and proud of their black identity and not rely on well-meaning attempts to assimilate them into white society . |
| 5 | Their exploitation of this recently opened path aroused jealousy among the knights , one of whom refused to answer a charge levelled against him by the Erembalds in the court of Charles the Good , on the ground that his accusers ' lowly social origins barred them from comital justice . |
| 6 | His observation of the way in which after 1942 Churchill took on the role of Roosevelt 's faithful second left him with long-lasting suspicions of Britain 's priorities . |
| 7 | Repêchages were in the afternoon with all British boats making it to semi finals . |
| 8 | Discovered in 1953 by Hong Kong herpetologist John Romer , the frog 's exceedingly primitive nature makes it of special interest . |
| 9 | Chain , exasperated by the British failure to provide him with adequate research facilities , migrated to Rome , but was retained as a consultant by Beecham 's at a time when the firm was rapidly developing its research facilities . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about future numbers . |
| 11 | Yet I found that the breadth of my Scottish education stood me in good stead in the work of assessing and editing material from the whole agenda of a serious newspaper . |
| 12 | Enchanted , she too watched the sweet-faced boy who was chattering excitedly while his fond father plied him with Carnival cakes . |
| 13 | I suppose that simple precept from that old foreman stood me in good stead for thirty odd years , until now . ’ |
| 14 | French press releases overran our positions , German amendments raked us with deadly fire . |
| 15 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 16 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 17 | If Margaret Thatcher stands down before the next election , as most voters appear to believe she should , Michael Heseltine is the popular choice to succeed her as Conservative leader , according to the opinion polls . |
| 18 | Now Ebenezer Judge understood what he must have felt , as a dozen willing hands hoisted him on high , held him for an instant in mid-air , then let him down , inch by inch , until the back of his head knocked against the stone wall and the freezing water lapped over his boots . |
| 19 | a series of free booklets to help you with common health problems |
| 20 | Beattie 's outstanding record as a dedicated social worker stood him in good stead at the ‘ Diplock ’ tribunal and partly explained the presence of a total of twenty-four persons who came to testify on his behalf . |
| 21 | The other old nomes watched her in horrified silence . |
| 22 | It is quite usual to find large joints of roast beef and pork for slicing on the delicatessen counter , but two of the more interesting meats to reach us in recent years have been smoked turkey and pastrami . |
| 23 | When we have a £6 million food and drink deficit , it is no use reducing Scottish production to replace it with cheap imports form eastern Europe . |
| 24 | The idea that a free India would remain loyal to the British empire filled him with brilliant scorn . |
| 25 | Even before he got to her she was mesmerised , the dark eyes holding her with complete ease , and she had to bring herself quickly back to the present to do what she had planned and set matters on an even footing straight away . |
| 26 | Paper-thin circumstance separates us from other lives and alliances . |
| 27 | The offline manager must specify for each media item whether it is to be used for primary or secondary purposes , although there is no absolute requirement to make them of different media types . |
| 28 | If , however , mutations affect both juvenile and adult survival equally , selection against their early effects keeps them at low frequency , and prevents the collapse of late survival . |
| 29 | Not only do we need to strengthen up the entire body to keep it in good working order but there are certain areas that need extra exercise to give the area more definition ; areas that accumulate unwanted flab . |
| 30 | That they were also all subject to periods of psychotic breakdown makes them of additional interest and in the next chapter we shall examine precisely what that means and how it might help us to understand their particular form of creativity . |