Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the movements in all three are classically based , they would look out of place in older classical ballets or danced to other music . |
| 2 | stood round in groups or knelt on half-bald knees |
| 3 | Thus , intertidal zones and estuaries in particular tend to be extremely rich , even though they are battered by waves or scarified by rapid waters , are sometimes dry and sometimes wet , and pose all kinds of chemical problems as the salinity may swing from fresh to super-saturated . |
| 4 | Here , in a series of wrecked sheds , men mended cars or sat on old tyres , smoking . |
| 5 | Many fairly recent objects can be found at home , bought cheaply in second-hand shops or borrowed from local people . |
| 6 | Peristaltic or simultaneous oesophageal contractions occurred in clusters of four or more repetitive waves and lasted for several minutes . |
| 7 | She narrowed her eyes and added in clipped tones , ‘ I know you always thought of this as your home and that you never wanted me to be a part of it . |
| 8 | So she made no protest as they wriggled their way beneath the bushes and waited in tense silence for the approaching party to appear . |
| 9 | The 37-year-old took an overdose of painkillers and lay in sub-zero conditions with just a sleeping bag . |
| 10 | There was a perpetual hum from the ground below , and occasional harsher metallic bangs and scrapes , and judders of thick silvery snakes that sped along faster than cars and disappeared into black holes in the ground . |
| 11 | Some were dragged out of their cars and butchered by angry crowds in the street . |
| 12 | She lifted her multi-petticoated skirts and walked down with as much grace as she could manage , playing the part of Cinderella at her first ball , prevented from any sudden movement by the flattering silken wig whose curls were interlaced with pearls and fell in tumbling ringlets on to one breast . |
| 13 | Last week the Nationwide Anglia announced it was closing 170 branches with 400 job losses and warned of more estate agency closures to come . |
| 14 | He had started out in Cleveland , Ohio playing 3,000 people — he went back to Cleveland within two months and played to 20,000 people . |
| 15 | Caboc is a cows ' milk cheese made in small cylindrical shapes and rolled in toasted oatmeal to give it a more distinctive flavour . |
| 16 | This unifying issue can be presented at the beginning of the drama or at a later stage , after the children have taken on roles and started on small group work . |
| 17 | The doctor was so used to being called in a second time to cope with the results of his first visit that eventually he dug in his heels and advised against another jab dealing with whooping-cough . |
| 18 | It concentrated on the curriculum and organization of Inner London secondary schools and focused on those pupils who were underachieving , took few or no public examinations and showed their dissatisfaction with school by absenting themselves or by behaving in an uncooperative manner ( ILEA 1984 ) . |
| 19 | I jumped the iron spikes and landed with both feet on the concrete , then ran over the narrow top of the pipe and jumped down on to the island . |
| 20 | Although few people still retained the Great War view that German soldiers wore dead babies on their helmet spikes and lived on human flesh , there was little doubt in many minds that the Fuhrer was related to the devil . |
| 21 | At the end of the second century , Montanism was a Spirit-centred movement which had great strengths but fell into terrible error because it lost sight of Jesus as the controlling factor in spirituality . |
| 22 | Figures 3.14 and 3.15 show alternative dawgs which represent the same three words but presented in different orders . |
| 23 | Victor Lewis , co-leader of the ensemble , is one of the finest current jazz drummers and came to international attention through his long association with Stan Gertz , whose preferred accompanist he always was . |
| 24 | The USSR 's essential military needs are met by a network of bilateral treaties entered into years before the founding of the WTO : treaties which have been supplemented by similar agreements between the individual East European countries and renewed at periodic intervals over the years . |
| 25 | Although Groupe Bollore was identified as the cartel 's ringleader , 13 other European shipping firms were fined Ecu 300,000 for their lesser role in what was described as a ‘ particularly harmful cartel ’ that had shut out rival shipping lines and led to excessive prices . |
| 26 | Some of the entries were illegible and others were written across the ruled lines and ran into each other , and they were all in scrawly handwriting , which she found very difficult to decipher . |
| 27 | He climbed lazily to his feet and stood to one side so that she could open the door , then followed her inside . |
| 28 | Dr Robert Runcie visited the Vatican archives and looked at original documents relating to the split between the the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches in the sixteenth century . |
| 29 | ‘ When I started we used ink pens and sat on high stools — and the only way to add up was in your head , ’ she said . |
| 30 | All such topics can be referred to with the help of suitable denoting phrases and used as grammatical subjects in subject/ predicate propositions . |