Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The councillors loved it , and journalists filed it away for some distant future when Mr Portillo might feature in a Conservative leadership election , writes Valerie Elliott . |
| 2 | They became the refuge of the vagabond and beggars sought them out as natural almshouses . |
| 3 | The arrival of the waiter with their fritters jerked her back to full awareness of her surroundings . |
| 4 | Intellectual reviewers took him up in left-wing papers because of his music-hall background and appreciated him in a way that made him wretched . |
| 5 | The English archers poured a deadly hail of arrows into the French troops , and the English men-at-arms finished them off in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 6 | Though the conditions made it nigh on impossible to tell anyone apart anyway . |
| 7 | In particular , it wanted to make sure that auditors told it promptly of any concerns they might have about a banking client . |
| 8 | She came into my mind when a woman in the slums of West Kingston , Jamaica , with a child at her breast and another three hanging around her skirts followed me around for two hours repeating , ‘ Some milk would be better than nothing . ’ |
| 9 | But the young Swede 's heroic 65 ended in tears when he missed from just over a yard at the final hole , while Love sank a twisting 15 footer and Couples followed him in from 18 inches . |
| 10 | Deprived of any effective legal mechanism through which to express their discontent , the peasants expressed it instead through rural disturbances . |
| 11 | Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul , the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain . |
| 12 | These were being lowered to the roof-top , where Repo Men guided them on to powered sleds and steered them into the lift . |
| 13 | His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets . |
| 14 | The commons granted it again from 1343 to 1346 , from 1348 to 1351 , 1353 to 1356 , and in 1356 for a period of six years . |
| 15 | The boots served me well in wet weather doing an admirable job in keeping my feet dry , but on some of the hotter days this year I did find that my feet got unpleasantly hot and sweaty . |
| 16 | Right and then others followed you on after that did they ? |
| 17 | He might take the odd class in Geography at a pinch , but he had never given the subject any particular prominence in the school , and most boys gave it up after two years . |
| 18 | As we climbed up the crags of Petra , black goats eyed us warily from black holes . |