Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The golf journalists knew enough not to ask any leading questions in the middle of a round , and they were sufficiently wary of Jack 's temperament and his considerable command of the pointed rebuke . |
| 2 | In an unsigned editorial it tried to explain it by saying that there were too many explicit photographs of homosexual acts in the book ( Mapplethorpe takes pictures of oral sex , of a man pissing in the mouth of his partner and of men buggering each other in various ways , including with a fist ) , and that the authors had therefore not left enough space for his more restful images , such as his ‘ superb studies of people and flowers ’ , which the author of the editorial obviously sees as representing Mapplethorpe 's angelic side . |
| 3 | We do not yet know much about this but the brain is so powerful and complex that it is very unlikely that any of the analyses proposed so far bear much resemblance to this reality ; they are too heavily influenced by the theoretician 's preoccupation with economy , elegance and simplicity . |
| 4 | So the new planners thought well why waste all this available space between the various shops ? |
| 5 | Since the defendants had therefore not taken all reasonable precautions , they had no defence . |
| 6 | Lou Collins 's cleaners had certainly not done any proper cleaning , she thought . |
| 7 | When the enemy front ranks reached there , and the first horsemen rode warily in to try this ford , no cannon-fire developed from above . |
| 8 | The hat becomes limp and shapeless , and most girls tried quite desperately to avoid this mishap . |