Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of us worried and went looking for him , then one of Alf Wood 's sons found him dead in the old pw hut , we think he died of a heart attack or so the doctor said . |
| 2 | During the Suez fiasco in 1956 Eden considered an identical idea , and there were even a few voices suggesting something similar during the Falklands War in 1982 . |
| 3 | To discourage petty claims , most insurers make you liable for the first £25 . |
| 4 | Lee jumped and opened her eyes to find herself alone in the restroom apart from one of the girls who worked there , who was leaning over her and gently shaking her shoulder . |
| 5 | There he sat down with the guards keeping himself warm by the fire . |
| 6 | Ever since 1969 , when he had his first show , his cartoonish black-and-white paintings have managed to comment without mercy or a smidgen of socially redeeming tact on , among other things , men 's — and women 's — looks ( Warhol 's nosejob painting must be an important icon in his private gallery ) ; issues of health ( a hilarious series of men in the throes of having heart attacks ) ; bestiality ( pert Fifties housewife on her knees doing something unspeakable to a poodle with her arm ) and religion ( famous Biblical figure on the cross getting a pie in the face ) . |
| 7 | The excellent graphics and animation sequences keep them interested to the end , especially if you have a soundblaster card as well as it is now supported with this program . |
| 8 | His clear steel blue eyes looked you full in the face without a spark of insolence . |
| 9 | His old friends the overseers did him proud to the very last : in their generosity they provided him with a 14s. funeral . |
| 10 | The Commission emphasised in its decision that the selective nature of the price cuts , and the circumstances in which they were made , amounted to ‘ loss leader ’ tactics making it impossible for the much smaller competitor in the market place to stay in business . |
| 11 | Readers see him motionless in the wreckage as rescue services battle the flames . |
| 12 | ‘ We are happy to legislate on something which is already happening in the game , in other words to make it legal for the hooker to strike as soon as the ball leaves the hands of the scrum-half — as happens in reality — rather than when it pitches . |
| 13 | Moreover , the complex nature of many frauds makes it difficult for the police to prepare a sound case . |
| 14 | These advantages make it possible for the miners to produce a high output , of about 3 tonnes per man per shift . |
| 15 | Irina suspected that his own Italian origins made him sympathetic to the fuss they created . |
| 16 | It was a style which many of the country 's administrators were familiar with , from their visits to France , and its classical origins made it acceptable to the cultured amateur . |
| 17 | Popular permissiveness was reflected in jury verdicts , and the repeal of obscenity laws in several European countries made it impossible for the authorities to police the incoming tide of eroticism . |
| 18 | Yeremi snatched it clear of the firing handle . |
| 19 | The saucepan and potatoes hit him full in the chest , the water drenching him . |
| 20 | ‘ 6(1) A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 21 | The concept is explained in s.6(1) : A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 22 | The honeypot 's charms make it easy for the Fund to poach skilled personnel from Third World administrations already desperately short of such skills . |
| 23 | The closely-knit corps of torturers made it difficult for a torturer to give up his job . |
| 24 | The residential workers found him evasive in the account he gave of his actions and feelings . |
| 25 | While in times of war its uneasy location between the Frankish and German kingdoms rendered it prone to the ravages of invading armies , in times of peace , it was ideally situated at the crossroads to the great trade centres of Europe . |
| 26 | Leonard was full-blooded , physically and temperamentally , and these teenage years saw him active in a wide range of sporting interests : cycling ( one of his favourite pastimes then ) , skiing , swimming , canoeing , sailing and ice-hockey ( in which he made the school team ) , boxing and wrestling , though he was very little involved in the last two . |
| 27 | AN undercover detective who tracked terrorists shot himself dead with a police gun after developing ‘ panic attacks ’ , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 28 | Churchill favoured having just sufficient troops to make it impossible for the USSR to attack without the need to make such large preparations that its intention to start the Third World War would be self-evident . |
| 29 | One tells of how he was left paralysed after paramilitaries beat him senseless with a baseball bat . |
| 30 | Some prey species such as the oryx ( opposite , top ) , rely on simple , powerful galloping to escape their pursuers , but others , such as the impala ( below ) , employ a more confusing , zigzag escape route , with sudden directional changes making it difficult for the pursuing attacker to strike . |