Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A writer called Thomas Carlyle described it in 1824 as ‘ A frightful scene … a dense cloud of pestilential smoke hangs over it forever … and at night the whole region becomes like a volcano spitting fire from a thousand tubes of brick . ’ |
| 2 | According to Dr O'Toole , Dr Baltimore told her in 1986 that she could write a letter to Cell about it , but that he would publish a rejoinder . |
| 3 | Scott heard it at last and looked around , fumbling for the taps , trying to turn off the shower . |
| 4 | Yakovlev observed that state publications for 1922 from Gosizdat and Krasnaia Nov' included nothing on agricultural and rural affairs . |
| 5 | Tom grinned an enormous grin across the table and said , ‘ You 're cheating , because a ) what are your natural circumstances if it 's not the very existence of coal , b ) I do n't believe Engels said it at all and , c ) even if he did , that does n't make it true because he was working with an outmoded scientific model . |
| 6 | Sweden more than doubled its crop area between 1840 and 1880 , Italy and Denmark expanded it by more than half , Russia , Germany and Hungary by about a third . |
| 7 | 5 Instead of multiplying a number by 42 , Jane multiplied it by 24 and got 432 . |
| 8 | Studio head Richard Zanuck paid him between one and two million dollars so that the film could be released that year , with a guarantee to compensate him if the show 's gross takings fell below $60,000 a week for an agreed period . |
| 9 | The theory of the ISAs would indeed be very crude if Althusser left it at that but he completes the essay with a discussion of ideology , the mode in which the ISAs function . |
| 10 | Alain said nothing at all and Jenna had to think fast , keeping as much to the truth as possible . |
| 11 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 12 | Nobody dared to claim that Dukakis represented anything in particular or that he could reliably arouse anything more than a snore , but that was not the point . |
| 13 | Last time Senna had something like hundred and twenty did n't he ? |
| 14 | Of these redoubtable ladies , Lady Abrahams ( a Czechoslovakian by birth ) won the County Championship five times in 1952 , 1953 , 1954 , 1955 and 1957 ; Diana won it in 1968 and 1970 . |
| 15 | Jenny said nothing to this and they sat silent in the darkening room . |
| 16 | Pinkie said nothing about this because he was dazed by gin , and was not paying , and Richard said nothing because , after a little thought , he concluded that the wine was good enough for Pinkie . |
| 17 | Unleaded petrol did not reach our garages until 1986 , although the USA had it in 1975 and Japan from 1977 . |
| 18 | 8 Instead of multiplying a number by 98 , Julie multiplied it by 89 and got the answer 23,585 . |
| 19 | Charles Wesley congratulated himself in 1744 that as a consequence of his having preached against wrestling on his visit to Cornwall in the preceding year , the village of Gwennap had been unable to find enough men for their next contest , " all the Gwennap men being struck off the Devil 's list , and found wrestling against him not for him " . |
| 20 | Bell acquired it in 1957 and undertook the two-seat conversion . |
| 21 | W H Smith acquired it in 1903 and carried out a major expansion and refit in 1907 . |