Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Benjamin Rhodes , there are new paintings by Simon Edmondson ( 17 June-7 August ) , who has been living in Madrid for the last twelve months and previously showed with Nicola Jacobs . |
| 2 | Their wails and screams rose above the crackle of their burning homes and were made even more blood-curdling by the clangorous din of the church bells that frantically appealed to heaven for aid . |
| 3 | Among the first victims of the reform were the larger German-owned estates that now fell within Poland . |
| 4 | At first many counties established county-wide committees , but these either degenerated into battlegrounds for county/district rivalries or else atrophied through lack of business ( Alexander 1982a:37 — 8 ; 58 — 9 ) . |
| 5 | The long gaps that sometimes occurred between letters . |
| 6 | Great dinosaurs were excavated from the American west while it was still ‘ wild ’ — early fossil-hunters had to contend with hostile Indians and sometimes came to blows over possession of the richest sites . |
| 7 | She continued to visit her former foster parents and even went on holiday to Spain with them . |
| 8 | Marius and I waited for twenty minutes and then walked into Mike 's room , only to find him snoring loudly , unconscious . |
| 9 | The presence of carbon-bearing rocks similar to those studied here would raise the rock conductivity to moderate values if dry and to high values if also saturated with brines , producing values similar to those observed for the crustal high-conductivity zones by magnetotelluric methods . |
| 10 | Twenty-four pairs of painted lips let out long-drawn gasps and then broke into speech . |
| 11 | He spoke for one and half hours and barely paused for breath . |
| 12 | There were hunting parties , and celebrations that occasionally resulted in fires , riots , and other expressions of middle-aged high-spirits . |
| 13 | Thus , the original registers for the Sheffield district are to be found at Sheffield Central Library , whereas the bishop 's transcripts for those parishes that were within Yorkshire are kept at the Borthwick Institute for Historical Research , York , and the transcripts for those places that formerly lay within Derbyshire are available at the Lichfield Joint Record Office . |
| 14 | ‘ This time we rehearsed in England for three weeks and then flew to Houston , Texas , and rehearsed in the Goodyear Blimp hangar , because the screens the band use are so huge that we had to find a place big enough hold them ! |
| 15 | They sketched their ideas and then looked for clothes to match . |
| 16 | He got four years and later emigrated to Australia , whereas I was fined £30 and am welcome on Wogan , except that I am not . |
| 17 | Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears . |
| 18 | Apparently this did nothing to alleviate the situation , and the house was uninhabited for many further years and then fell into disrepair . |
| 19 | I enjoyed it for a few weeks but then went to Stanley . ’ |
| 20 | In the 16th century , Elizabethans rarely cleaned their teeth but instead gargled with sugar water to sweeten the breath . |
| 21 | However , in a statement on July 23 , Shamir described Assad 's response as " a phenomenon similar to what happened in Egypt with President Sadat when a revolution occurred in his concepts that ultimately led to negotiations with Israel and to peace " . |
| 22 | Columbine too started life as a servant of the gods and gradually rose in rank from waiting on the aristocracy to conspiring with Harlequin in such ballets as The Good- Humoured Ladies , where the two of them appear as serving maid and waiter . |
| 23 | So , on their recent visit to the UK , they not only performed club dates but also lectured at London 's Africa Centre , holding a cultural convention ‘ to promote communications between London and New York ’ , and to introduce Blackwatch — X-Clan minus the music . |
| 24 | ‘ My mother , ’ said Melanie , invoking her with difficulty , ‘ wore hats and gloves and sometimes sat on committees . ’ |
| 25 | The prize for suspicions that never hardened into knowledge belonged to Craig Coy , North 's junior aide . |
| 26 | This all simply helped to exaggerate the differences that always existed between Charman and the three other members . |
| 27 | Faced with mortgages charged at 15.4 per cent and higher , borrowers could n't afford to keep up their payments and so fell into arrears . |
| 28 | cos trolley buses , in this town were really the erm well I suppose they really came about , rather than motor buses right at the start because built trolley buses and so did of Laiston . |
| 29 | Four years ago , those markets were just a rumour — places where scraps of lambs the size of rabbits were bought for unbelievable prices and then spitted like kebabs . |
| 30 | A trail of blood led to a two-foot high by 18-inch timber box 20 yards away , perched just off the ground on tiny stilts and carefully camouflaged with twigs and branches . |