Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , 99.9% of my friends have come from homes where they had major childhood traumas . |
| 2 | Information is also collected about the quality of teaching received , and although this has not yet been formally used in allocating money , one department did have part of its grant withheld for several months until it introduced clear teaching objectives . |
| 3 | Indeed , it had even baulked over the European Payments Union for five months until it gained complete assurance that it would still be able to retain sole control over sterling as an international reserve currency . |
| 4 | The sheriff had suggested that more detonators , designed to alert drivers if they passed red light , be installed . |
| 5 | The company tended to capitalise all costs and revenues associated with opening new homes until they reached projected break-even occupancy levels . |
| 6 | I watched her shuffle , wriggle and avert her eyes while we made stilted conversation about our lives . |
| 7 | She 's refused to go to the baths since she had that cold , but I think she was clever enough to make that an excuse . |
| 8 | He put an arm behind her shoulders to lift her , and , when , not fully awake , she fumbled , held a glass of water to her lips while she swallowed two pain-killers . |
| 9 | Davies , a security guard , of Feltham , north London , was jailed for 30 months after he admitted two charges of false imprisonment and causing actual bodily harm . |
| 10 | I had to save the purchase price , which took several weeks ’ pocket money and watched almost daily , hoping that no-one else would buy the books before I had enough cash . |
| 11 | They had lived with her for three months before they got this place , and it had been three months too long as far as he was concerned . |
| 12 | All these points were approved for printing some months before they became official policy . |
| 13 | The Labour party warned the Government of the time bomb that was being being created by their policies months before they took any action to try to stem the flow of repossessions . |
| 14 | I was on the island for ten months before I visited other parts of it . |
| 15 | Ever since the first time she had seen the Hare-woman standing in the Post Office , staring with her luminous eyes as she told one lie after another , she had known that there was something wrong about her . |
| 16 | PANAMA CITY ( AP ) — Panamanian police arrested Ricardo Arias Calderon , the Christian Democrat former vice-presidential candidate , and some supporters as they toured remote provinces urging people to boycott the military-controlled government . |
| 17 | He did not have time to check his mirrors for police cars as he passed All Hallows-on-the-Wall and plunged into the long straight canyon of London Wall . |
| 18 | The Pims dashed around all parts of the aquarium having brief but energetic skirmishes when they met each other , but no actual physical damage was suffered from the skirmishes . |
| 19 | In Beaumont and Fletcher 's The Maid 's Tragedy , Melantius , approving his sister 's marriage to his best friend , tells her : ‘ Sister , I joy to see you , and your choice/You look 'd with my eyes when you took that man ’ ( i. ii . |
| 20 | ‘ Could you believe your eyes when you saw that gun ? |
| 21 | Grey herons contorted to strange shapes as they stretched long necks and peered into the shallows . |
| 22 | Latest figures show that TODAY now sells 101,347 more copies than we did this time last year . |
| 23 | Because at no metres there 's one post and at the end of a hundred metres you 've got two posts so you got one post more |
| 24 | Consumers may not have any more cash in their pockets than they did 48 hours ago , but it is their willingness to take on extra debt that drives demand for housing , cars , and other big items of spending . |
| 25 | Looking back on his achievements in the 21-months since he took Ministerial office , the Tory candidate said he wanted to complete the programme of reforms with which he had been involved . |
| 26 | He resigned from the Conservatives after they threatened legal action over the loan . |
| 27 | He resigned from the Conservatives after they threatened legal action over the loan . |
| 28 | In the next instant Travis was rising and she was set back on her feet as he put some distance between them . |
| 29 | He hummed the little tones as he pressed each key . |
| 30 | Mr Henderson asked him three times if he had any idea what a kidney was for . |