Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it had dispersed , Bunting was allowed to hold a meeting in the Diamond and for a short time afterwards there was tension as rival groups of teenagers faced each other , but police and DCAC stewards persuaded them to disperse before any trouble broke out . |
| 2 | The people who created the Garotter 's Act , together with the gentlemen who egged them on from the sidelines helping to fashion the vocabulary of objections to penal reform which remain with us to this day , were thus the same men whose blunted moral sensibilities enabled them to preside over this magnanimous process of ‘ civilisation ’ without turning a hair . |
| 3 | Furthermore , while in former times the responsible authorities strove their hardest to mitigate poverty , of circumstance and opportunity , by driving hard for high levels of education provision , low expectation still depressed educational achievement , and work-related training in industry continued to be low-grade — where employers allowed it to happen at all . |
| 4 | Technological improvements allowed them to capitalize on that wealth in the 1920s . |
| 5 | What grand ideas did he have for that ? |
| 6 | What other things did you do at this school ? |
| 7 | Drachenfels left her dressed in some revealing clothing ( revealing if she still had a body , that is ) to top the effect off . |
| 8 | What hours did you do for that ? |
| 9 | So what what hours did you work at this this hat shop ? |
| 10 | The two men found they agreed on many points about today 's press . |
| 11 | ‘ I am pleased that the test results allowed us to proceed with this new contract which will benefit both ScottishPower and Monktonhall . ’ |
| 12 | The largest of them , Krakatoa , was known to be about nine kilometres across from north to south and the British Admiralty charts showed it to consist of several volcanic cones arranged roughly in a line . |
| 13 | And what what wages did you get for that then ? |
| 14 | He was rarely the first to suggest what should be done ; when the others spoke he listened with half an ear , made up his mind what course to follow and followed it without hesitation as though no other were possible . |
| 15 | Er and put us out of our er how many ballistic shields did you take into that flat ? |
| 16 | Children who were presented with a nonsense syllable alongside more and less in a variety of contexts made it contrast with more and less by adding or subtracting much smaller amounts ; by adding or subtracting everything ; by introducing some quite different manipulation ( stirring , flicking , rolling , tossing up and down , mixing both piles together ) , and so on . |