Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised defeat or even a draw would rest on my shoulders . ’ |
| 2 | Even if an algorithm embodied knowledge that perhaps the training set should be transformed to polar coordinates , still the algorithm would have to search a 2-dimensional continuum of possible centres . |
| 3 | Dos Passos described Madeira as both a Paradise and a prison . |
| 4 | One man 's father told coastguards that normally the group only travelled a few miles along the coast on the speedboat trips . |
| 5 | Guided by his new-found friend , Charles studied Jung and also the work of economist and philosopher E. F. Schumacher , who wrote a book entitled Small Is Beautiful ; over the years the Prince has found many of the answers he was searching for . |
| 6 | My mother threw insults and then the crockery , while my father ignored the insults , caught the crockery , and produced endless cups of tea when they eventually decided to make up . |
| 7 | wished to know why certain of the figures showed differences and why the audit fee was up by 50 per cent . |
| 8 | The Greeks discovered electricity and quite a lot of them were AC-DC as well . |
| 9 | Acquiring his first proper guitar at the age of ten , Ry first discovered bluegrass and then the country blues players : the Rev. Gary Davis ( who gave Ry lessons ) , Lightnin' Hopkins , Sonny Terry , Brownie McGhee and Son House , plus Howlin' Wolf , Muddy Waters and Sleepy John Estes . |
| 10 | The NHS needed reform but not the government changes . |
| 11 | Whitlock assumed ‘ here ’ meant Germany and not the restaurant . |
| 12 | However , the letter contained information that only the killer could have known , he said . |
| 13 | Numerous houses became schools , many more became hospitals and quite a number were acquired as reform schools . |
| 14 | Risley Employee communications clerk Pat Hunt , who helped organise BNFL 's response to the appeal , said she wanted to thank all employees who generously donated spectacles and also the site collectors for their help . |
| 15 | The Lee-Enfield had a magazine which held 10 rounds and rapid-action bolt which turned down ; this gave the rifleman a rate of fire of 15 aimed rounds or more a minute . |
| 16 | He plundered Grandmont and then the abbey of La Couronne near Angoulême . |
| 17 | The bank undertook to arrange for the necessary documents to be drawn up and the manager gave instructions that both the husband and the wife were to be made aware of the nature and effect of the documents they would sign , and that the wife should be advised to take legal advice if she had any doubts about them . |
| 18 | ‘ Some said 5% and so the discussion ended pretty quickly . |
| 19 | Should the strings become entwined then the first protagonist to shout ‘ Strings ! ’ had strike and so the conker bashing went on until one split . |
| 20 | He stripped off his trousers with unrushed ease , revealing one strong , muscled leg and then the other . |
| 21 | We asked Ruby whether the same was true for Australopithecus tanzaniensis , whether they actually had speech or only the capacity to be taught speech . |
| 22 | Here one may note that while , eventually , it was France who not only defined Vietnam but also the character of Vietnamese resistance , it can also be argued that in the impact of the first two revolutionary events of the 2Oth century experienced in Vietnam , the inspiration came from Asia itself . |