Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes glowed with an extraordinary fervour . |
| 2 | The religious officer 's artificial sapphire eyes glowed with an inner light as he gazed at Lexandro . |
| 3 | Soon after 9 p.m. rally drivers came upon an unexpected road hazard as they steered into the narrow twisting lane — a barricade of wooden benches and almost a dozen seated householders ! |
| 4 | His eyes swivelled in an old panic , trying to look inwards . |
| 5 | His eyes swivelled in an old panic , trying to look inwards . |
| 6 | Philosophy , medicine and the arts flourished in an enlightened atmosphere which existed scarcely anywhere else at the time . |
| 7 | His face was deathly white , and his eyes shone with an unearthly light . |
| 8 | Graham 's shops coincided with an increasing number of people taking to the hills . |
| 9 | Pacing himself steadily along the dusty track , the Doctor halted when his flickering eyes fell upon an unnatural addition to the landscape . |
| 10 | His shoulders sloped at an alarming angle so that he looked like a pyramid wearing a hat . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'd better get changed , ’ Piers said in an offhand voice , ‘ or you 'll find yourself stuck in bed with pneumonia for the next month . ’ |
| 12 | His eyes glittered with an arctic coldness . |
| 13 | Where , when just getting to one 's knees loomed as an unavoidable torture and to lie and wait to be rescued appeared to be merely common sense ? |
| 14 | Of course , all theatrical activities came to an abrupt halt ; but Guthrie was not prepared to accept what seemed like being the total demise of Sadler 's Wells Opera , and proposed sending a small touring group of the company round the provinces and he offered me a small contract . |
| 15 | News of the changed disposal plans came in an internal University memo leaked to The Guardian newspaper . |
| 16 | Each set of notes came with an attached exercise and at his behest I set to , to analyse squares of numbers , using keys to turn them into the letters that described either thaumaturgical entities , or else even the tetragrammaton itself . |
| 17 | Another view of the need to rebuild British cities came from an old school : the garden city movement . |
| 18 | Both meetings came at an important time in Russia 's relationship with the rest of the world and at a critical time for world peace and stability . |
| 19 | Instead of being ‘ designed ’ , the mishmash of typefaces , type sizes , screaming headlines , jumbled-up articles and unrelated snippets came from an organic process . |
| 20 | Gary and Nails lived in an old dump behind the bus station . |
| 21 | Then without warning the ground at my feet erupted in an incredible blast of noise . |
| 22 | The trials came to an abrupt end when local fisheries officers found the frozen remains of common dolphins and pilot whales on board the fishing boats . |
| 23 | RISLEY crews breezed to an easy victory to retain the Inter Site Sailing Trophy and left rivals trailing in their wake . |
| 24 | His bones lay in an engraved gold casket , with his armour , sceptre and shield close by . |
| 25 | But after his parents went through an acrimonious divorce , he started wetting it again . |
| 26 | With the Edwardian figure of Macmillan as leader of the party and the government , a man who had begun his career by advocating a dirigiste stance against the liberal economic tendencies of the Baldwin-Chamberlain era , the Conservatives looked to an interventionist strategy to stave off political and economic reversals . |
| 27 | The bankers insisted on an alternative agreement which safeguarded Panama 's " judicial sovereignty " , claiming that the real US objective was to stop US tax evasion . |
| 28 | Chiddingfold 's all-round strength proved too much for Hanworth and with Jonathan Fowler scoring four for the second week running , the visitors cantered to an easy victory . |
| 29 | It is a revealing remark , because it shows that he does n't think of himself as being in the business of constructing anything like sentences , though a film sequence is a sort of visual sentence , composed of standard elements inflected in an infinite variety of ways . |
| 30 | The city had tried ameliorating its appalling traffic congestion by restricting entry to the city : card whose registration plates ended in an even number were permitted to enter one day and those in an odd number the next . |