Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the handling of the union 's finances , Wilson 's enemies attacked him with equal vituperation . |
| 2 | The eyes lanced hers with swift rage and her pulses raced . |
| 3 | The hooded eyes surveyed her with frank appreciation mingled with amusement . |
| 4 | His eyes searched hers with fierce intensity , and his lips hovered over her own . |
| 5 | Although his groups , ‘ Tiddlers ’ , ‘ Ritz ’ , and ‘ Boys ’ , reflected increasing involvement in delinquent activities , they served the same function of enabling young people to achieve the sort of reputations and images denied them in mainstream society . |
| 6 | Each of these companies provided us with detailed information of their purchases , which provided the basis for our estimate of ‘ indirect ’ employment described in Section 3 . |
| 7 | In my case , my parents used it with devastating overkill . |
| 8 | Be wary of some people in high places whose duties involved them in prolific correspondence . |
| 9 | Nails watched it with horrified fascination , and saw it start to slide towards him . |
| 10 | Their exploitation of this recently opened path aroused jealousy among the knights , one of whom refused to answer a charge levelled against him by the Erembalds in the court of Charles the Good , on the ground that his accusers ' lowly social origins barred them from comital justice . |
| 11 | The grounding Mr Morrison received at James Dowling 's feet stood him in good stead . |
| 12 | Subsequently , European partners were bought out and Arab banks transformed them into international banking subsidiaries . |
| 13 | Despite his lack of political experience , Clouthier 's 20-year leadership of business organisations stood him in good stead . |
| 14 | This defence caused some difficulty for the Court of Appeal when two cases raised it in quick succession in the summer and autumn of 1988 . |
| 15 | It was not long before someone threw a lump of broken paving through a window ; a dozen sets of plans followed it in short order . |
| 16 | ‘ It seems a firm of accountants hired it as temporary accommodation while their offices were being refurbished and it 's due to be removed . |
| 17 | Her resistance to Generalissimo Franco 's Nationalists endowed her with legendary status . |
| 18 | Her republican sympathies brought her into direct conflict with her brother Sir John French , who was viceroy , but they were reconciled before he died in 1925 . |
| 19 | Sartorial details aside , such efforts stood him in good stead with Disney . |
| 20 | Moreover , the self-defined small scale nature of these projects placed them in marked contrast to the first seven Urban Development Corporations announced in Britain in the 1980s in London Docklands , Merseyside ( see chapters 2 and 3 ) , Sheffield , the Black Country , Teesside , Tyne and Wear and Greater Manchester , all of which received over £100 million in financial support . |
| 21 | French press releases overran our positions , German amendments raked us with deadly fire . |
| 22 | Under the Poor Law many children found themselves bound to either masters or mistresses who exploited them and at times treated them with great cruelty , while our own age has learned with shame of the extent of ill-treatment even within the family . |
| 23 | This was the theme tune at last month 's revolutionary rallies , where the crowds sang it with great gusto and clapped to the jaunty rhythm of its concluding lines . |
| 24 | Do you expect me to send food and wine to the men whose forefathers took mine to wretched imprisonment in Genoa ? |
| 25 | Of the priests we know little , except where their transgressions brought them to episcopal notice . |
| 26 | But after Habitat set about educating them to the advantages of the idea , the Americans adopted it with tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 27 | He did n't see much more of Tina and the teachers treated him with gentle sympathy , almost as if he were an invalid . |
| 28 | I enjoyed the function and my friends kept me in good cheer as I was obviously anxious about my husband being in the Gulf and did have a few too many drinks . |
| 29 | Often only the absence of sabres and bullets differentiated it from full-scale war . |
| 30 | The Times caressed us with recondite information : no Pakistani batsman had made a century at Headingley ; Pakistan bowled their 100th no-ball in the series ( Wasim Akram , not out 63 ) . |