Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pat Nevin 's fifth goal for Rovers earned them three crucial points at Leicester City . |
| 2 | Results indicated that the ‘ houseplant group ’ lived significantly longer than a matched control group , perhaps simply because the plants gave them some extra purpose in life . |
| 3 | Hon. Members told us that rural services , emergency services , call boxes and provision for the blind and disabled would all have an uncertain future under privatisation , yet in each case the future has been better , thanks to the privatised industry and the regulatory world that we have created . |
| 4 | Since the unforgivable primal sin was to be boring , the Victorians gave us intricate wrought-iron work , sculpted columns , mullioned windows , stained glass , mosaic floors , tiled maps , delicate portes cochères , exquisite stone tracery , clock-towers , crenellations , campaniles , wood-panelled booking halls , friezes , glass canopies , triumphal arches , balustrades , gables , chimneys , turrets , spires , drinking-fountains , ornate platform seats , coats of arms , baronial fireplaces , even majestic gentlemen 's conveniences in monumental marble or bold ironwork , a constant and unending source of delight in a craftsmanship at its most complex , painstaking , and delicate . |
| 5 | On the contrary , well-rounded performances ( especially from mild-mannered Kevin Whateley of future Morse fame and lovable brick shithouse Jimmy Nail ) and gently interweaving domestic plotlines gave it much long-term potential . |
| 6 | Even in the nuclear family , women told me that certain jobs should never be done by a man , they were not Izzat wali kam ( i.e. jobs of honour ) or they were not manly , and predictably these tasks included almost all household chores . |
| 7 | Though teaching was so wretchedly paid , he was beginning to think that it was the only possible profession for him — passing on information to others gave him such profound pleasure . |
| 8 | Their closely cropped hair and the drawn pale look of hunger in their faces gave them that terrifying animal uniformity which falls over all human beings in permanent physical distress . |