Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliament passed the bill and thereafter a creditor no longer had the power to detain a debtor already in prison at his pleasure , since the man could at once petition the Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors for his discharge on the terms of his whole property , present and future , being given up for distribution among his creditors — and not only in London but to Commissioners who made circuits to hear such petitions in country districts . |
| 2 | The tail fly , a size 14 Silver Butcher grazed the surface and immediately the water erupted . |
| 3 | The Parish Councillors made the point that possibly the size of the proposed extension was outside the guidelines laid down by Wyre Borough Council for extensions to rural dwellings . |
| 4 | A number made the comment that only a small part of the training was of direct use on the family unit . |
| 5 | And a couple of girls so they got the message and then the they moved off down towar down the bottom . |
| 6 | He always got the profits but never the blame . |
| 7 | Suits , coats , dresses , boots , shoes , bicycles , tools , furniture , companion sets , china , ornaments , pictures , stuffed parrots , music-boxes and linen were only some of the things that caught the eye and sometimes an elbow . |
| 8 | I found the site but only the snails were visible in the sandy dunes at the edge of the golf course . |
| 9 | Rudd added the goal and then a penalty . |
| 10 | After Rhyolite came the Argus and later the Keyhole series of satellites . |
| 11 | The Labour group ignored the reports and instead the community charge payer has to foot the bill . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The Labour group ignored the reports and instead the community charge payer has to foot the bill . ’ |
| 13 | Horan was on his feet , just , when he played the ball and so the try was legal . |
| 14 | ‘ Actually , ’ confessed the Navigator , perking up , ‘ I composed a poem and quite a good one . ’ |
| 15 | He came to spend the night , by agreement , twice a week and she saw him every day but there was no denying that he seemed a visitor and never a member of her household . |
| 16 | Through more than 70 years of Soviet history , Leninist logic encouraged the belief that somehow the Soviet Union , however badly run , could ignore the laws of economic gravity . |
| 17 | He and May put on 187 — a stand that turned the match and indeed the whole rubber . |
| 18 | The Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division which first heard the action refused Bromley 's application but the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords upheld it and quashed the precept and so the scheme . |
| 19 | He joined the leisure and later the entertainments division , where he later became director , with responsibility for such venues as Talk of the Town , Belle Vue Zoo , Blackpool , Eastbourne and Yarmouth piers and a caravan park . |
| 20 | At first the water made no difference but eventually the flames began to die until what was left of the bed was nothing but black smouldering ash . |
| 21 | The officials of the chapel were the arch-chaplain or arch-chancellor , its honorific head , who was always an archbishop , and from the late tenth century always archbishop of Mainz , and the chancellor , who nearly always became a bishop and commonly an archbishop . |
| 22 | The nearer the pilgrim approached the Pyrenees the deeper he penetrated a countryside where almost every landmark had some kind of association with Roland . |
| 23 | And er what , four the rest I think it was one pound five a Twenty five shillings every three months and you got a sovereign and often a five shilling piece . |
| 24 | And of his views in the 1840s he wrote : " We were now much less democrats than I had been , because so long as education continues to be so wretchedly imperfect , we dreaded the ignorance and especially the selfishness and brutality of the mass … " ( p. 138 ) |
| 25 | For the southern forests Henry III continued to appoint Household officials as justices — men like Robert Walerand , who held office from 1256 until 1259 , and who enjoyed the confidence and even the friendship of the king . |
| 26 | The varying colours of the gowns and hoods , and the more subtle variations in their style and cut , indicate the degree ( Bachelor , Master or Doctor ) , the University which awarded the degree and even the faculty or subject . |
| 27 | She said : ‘ I heard a click and then a shot and one of our cats , Fluffy , came running into the garden . |
| 28 | I never heard a thing until maybe the last two steps he took , I never had time to turn . |
| 29 | The magazine not only named the drugs but also the dosages that were recommended . |
| 30 | In the austere Shades act he perhaps overdid the stunts -but otherwise the height of his jumps coupled with the careless speed of his preparation was breathtaking . |