Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 2 | He appeared to recognize Stephen as quickly as Stephen recognized him , but the dark wedge face registered this only in a tightening of the mouth and a jerk of the chin . |
| 3 | The jet crashed in a ball of flame , destroying 15 cars and damaging 10 more but further evidence of the good fortune became clear yesterday with the sight of the aircraft wreckage embedded in mud . |
| 4 | Arnold Bennett caught this splendidly in the story of Denry Machin , an ambitious and well-off young councillor , who brought back a local footballing hero to the town at his own expense . |
| 5 | The boatman inspected this critically for a moment , but then , unlike Owen , seemed satisfied . |
| 6 | A patchy picture also emerges from the serious assault statistics , with an 8.5 per cent rise across the six forces surveyed driven primarily by the surge in Strathclyde . |
| 7 | The silence seemed broken only by the sound of Isabel 's laboured breathing . |
| 8 | In sharp contrast to most of his contemporaries , Pétain seemed unambitious almost to the point of self-extinction ; when offered the post of Commandant to the Rifle School , he refused because it would have meant his promotion over the heads of more senior majors . |
| 9 | It seemed simple enough at the outset … vegetarian author Rebecca Hall offered to pay ten thousand pounds to any farmer willing to live like a battery chicken for a week . |
| 10 | She seemed bored already by the visit . |
| 11 | The princess , who seemed relaxed away from the pressures of marriage problems , had taken sons William and Harry to Playscape for an earlier visit . |
| 12 | ‘ I never finished it , but it seemed better just as an idea to sum up the album . |
| 13 | Just 13 days ago the couple seemed happy enough at the New York premiere of Malcolm X , the controversial film about the black civil rights leader . |
| 14 | But Philip Burton was a proven scholar and a writer and an opener of doors thought slammed shut forever in the face of a hungry and rough Welsh Jenkins . |
| 15 | In this way , the unfortunate Guy Fawkes became linked indissolubly with the autumn solstice and its fire-lighting rituals , which were imitative magical ceremonies designed to keep the power of the sun from waning . |
| 16 | But er according to my mother 's great joy , she got seasick even on the landing stage in in Liverpool and never came out of her cabin , so she had a big time as a young women running around the ship . |
| 17 | There was a stack of timber being unloaded from the Dock and the wind threw that all over the place . |
| 18 | Fred Sedgwick , a teacher , captured this recently in an article describing a case conference he attended ( Guardian , 28 January 1989 ) . |
| 19 | It was very dark and a clock chimed three somewhere in the distance . |
| 20 | Annual industrial capital values growth also turned negative again after a fall of 1.1 per cent in April , pushing the total return to below ten per cent . |
| 21 | The London market opened weaker today as the Chancellor John Major underlined his determination to keep interest rates high despite calls from the C B I to reduce them . |
| 22 | I would finish unpacking , have a look at the cooker and set things ready for supper , then I would take a walk out to look at the sea , and gather kindling in case the evening turned chilly enough for a fire . |
| 23 | Rivers in great cities became foul partly as a result of the beneficent introduction of the water-closet ; for diluted sewage was thus discharged straight into rivers , whereas before it had been collected as ‘ night-soil ’ in concentrated form from privies and used on the land . |
| 24 | There once was a bear , an ugly and deformed creature , who hit from the world and lived all alone in a wood . |
| 25 | But leaving aside instances of momentary irritation , of which there were many , as all field-workers must expect , most respondents became confident enough in the field-worker 's presence to express what were undoubtedly widely held fears about the research . |
| 26 | When the two Highlanders stood , he sauntered up and touched each gently on the chest . |
| 27 | We observed this clearly in the Greater London and South-East England labour market for secretarial staff and in the South East England labour market for computer programmers and analysts . |
| 28 | A veteran of Le Mans , he 's won his class and finished 5th overall in the past . |
| 29 | Suddenly he shoved this aside with a groan , snatched up a clean sheet of paper , he wrote : |
| 30 | He carried a silver-topped malacca cane and he waved this vaguely in the direction of the strolling crowds all around them . |