Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SEEDY : Rumpled bed and empty bottles in the borrowed Fulham flat where Mellor and Antonia met for their steamy love sessions |
| 2 | They sold off their small tools division where we sold some bearings to them . |
| 3 | IT WAS a full year before he made the break — but eventually , on August 21 , 1984 , he went over to one of the more independent local magazines , Cauce , and asked for its leading journalist Monica Gonzalez . |
| 4 | And as she rubbed against him , her skin became more and more slippery , until she squelched as her open crotch ground against his thighs . |
| 5 | the same technology that they used for their high performance car system a Lotus or something like that |
| 6 | Two imposing items which arrived in Swanage were the prominent Wellington ‘ lock ’ tower at Peveril and the 17th century facade from the Mercers ' Hall in Cheapside which George Burt used for his new Town Hall . |
| 7 | By the end of the second day the visitors had reached 239 for 7 , only Gomes and Lloyd making an impression as Allott , recalled after a two-year absence , headed for his best Test return or 6 for 61 . |
| 8 | Watched by wicketkeeper Ian Smith , Alec Stewart collects one of the 17 fours which contributed towards his highest Test score of 148 . |
| 9 | The Collector 's chivalry was aroused by Miriam 's weakness , for the heart of a gentleman still beat beneath his ragged morning coat ; besides , he found her an attractive young woman in spite of everything , for she could still smile as sweetly as ever . |
| 10 | Elizabeth and Helen moved into their own basement flat in an inner-city suburb in 1987. they are middle-aged and spent nearly thirty years together at the same mental handicap hospital but lived separately for the two years before the move into the community because Helen was transferred to a smaller institution . |
| 11 | Julie Mills moved into her Edwardian town house in London expecting to just give it a lick of paint . |
| 12 | He moved with his usual lightning speed , slapping her brutally across the face . |
| 13 | Moving slowly as though she could put off the dreaded moment forever , she changed into her favourite show costume — a long glittery number in gold . |
| 14 | Similarly some measure of Pakistan 's eventual triumph was due to Imran Khan 's unconventional tactics and the confidence which he demonstrated in his leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed by slotting him into his team 's battle plan at an early stage of proceedings . |
| 15 | Beth rose from her front row seat , turned , and allowed the audience to get a good look at her before making her way out . |
| 16 | In defining such need , senior staff of the Schools Library Service , with the agreement of the Education Department , drew upon their regular liaison visits to secondary schools to compile a County picture of current library provision . |
| 17 | A one-time Economic Adviser to HM Treasury turned university Professor of Personal Finance , K. Alec Chrystal , gave no discernible answer to the question he posed in his Social Affairs Unit report Consumer Debt : Whose Responsibility ? |
| 18 | The fireplan would be under the control of the company once it moved from its final assault position on to the enemy position . |
| 19 | Lonely and feeling sorry for herself , she regularly wandered from her second floor apartment to the kitchens to chat to the staff . |
| 20 | As I mentioned in my recent phone call the best site for it is the Mill Yard , as last year . |
| 21 | ‘ As I mentioned in my annual report statement , 1992 was a watershed year . |
| 22 | I promised in my five minute address last year that I would be a listener and I 've already listened to many of your views over the last twelve months and indeed today . |
| 23 | He coined the Latin phrase , which the Queen used in her 40th anniversary speech at the Guildhall , in a letter to her expressing sympathy over the Windsor Castle fire . |
| 24 | Mildred changed from her ordinary school uniform to the best robes which the girls always wore for special occasions . |
| 25 | The clashes in January 1987 followed the sacking of print workers by Mr Murdoch 's newspaper group when it moved to its new print plant at Wapping , east London . |
| 26 | Cortex Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co have signed a joint marketing and development pact that will see Cortex' CorVision application development tool , previously available only on VAXes , moved to its first Unix environment HP-UX on an HP 9000 Series 800 server : CorVision will be encapsulated so it runs with HP SoftBench Framework ; availability is expected this year . |
| 27 | NCR Corp , Sequent Computer Systems Inc and Unisys Corp are all planning to see that May 17 — ‘ Pentium Day ’ — is not totally dominated by the personal computer end of the business : like just about every other Intel Corp customer , these companies are bursting to talk about their high-end Pentium systems , but have been forcibly gagged by Intel from doing so : NCR was luckier than most in that it got a ten minute portion of the huge Intel presentation at Cebit in Hannover last month devoted to its eight-processor Pentium monster , but with the model number carefully removed . |
| 28 | SCOTTISH champion Emma Donaldson , who rose to her highest world ranking of 39 last week , has now set her sights on the Far East in a bid to make further progress , writes Elspeth Burnside . |
| 29 | The way they manipulated their gang members , the way they deferred to their adoring mother Vi and the way they disposed of smalltime enemies like George Cornell and Jack ‘ The Hat ’ McVittie , were all done with a tangled misunderstanding of vice and virtue . |
| 30 | Local residents can be helpful , as Allen Watkins found on his first ley walk . |