Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not matter whether they had been far-sighted landowners , former artisans or merchants in feudal society ; what is crucial for Marxists is the belief that their ownership of the new and increasingly predominant mode of production led them to have common interests and goals . |
| 2 | The creepy brew was dished out to the squad in Barcelona and helped them win four gold and five silver medals . |
| 3 | However , a more careful analysis of methods of work and recreation in the Easter vac helped me to overcome these problems and be more in charge of myself , rather than being tossed about at random . |
| 4 | This was partly because of the structure of the lexicon used which enabled efficient storage and search , and cut off non-productive alternatives at an early stage . |
| 5 | When we moved we had one armchair and a sewing machine . |
| 6 | He was looking for female voices , he remembered Jakki , invited her to submit some tapes and — presto ! — she was offered a job in The Smoke . |
| 7 | When W. H. Auden once found him playing that game and asked him why he seemed to relish it , he reflected gravely and then replied , " Well , I suppose it 's the nearest thing to being dead " . |
| 8 | I reached the flat just after so helped her carry clean sheets and towels upstairs as well as my luggage and B. The two bedrooms in the flat are small — ‘ compact ’ in estate agency jargon I expect ! — and the bathroom is very nice with a washing machine in it . |
| 9 | Woodruffe helped him drink some Scotch and put him in Rogers 's limousine which a mechanic had brought over . |
| 10 | He used it to attack paternalistic officialdom and to articulate demands for social progress : ‘ I 'd tell people to forget their old ordinary life because ultimately , anyhow , we 'll either have a better life than that , or bust . ’ |
| 11 | In fact the canopy is deliberately being kept up whatever the weather for ’ The Turn of the Screw ’ , because the company found it has acoustic properties and projects sound out to the audience . |
| 12 | As he talked , he faded into an outline and I found myself beating folded wings and saying , Oh , quack quack quack quack . |
| 13 | She let us have two rooms but there was no visible staff , and the dining-room was closed : we ate , that evening , in a shabby bar in the middle of the town . |
| 14 | In the Tests I played I dropped three caught-and-bowleds and Don Tallon missed a chance behind as well . |
| 15 | I said in my teapot there is a little , and he told you to use white tide and you put a little bit of tide in it once a week . |
| 16 | While she busied herself squeezing fresh limes and adding local cane sugar and iced water , he began his pitch . |
| 17 | So I told him to take these tablets and says if he felt no better he 'd better get to doctors , well he did n't even move out of bed , apart from summat to eat |
| 18 | Luke sipped his juice : its extreme stringency caused him to lift both elbows and give a single , embittered nod . |
| 19 | He says they told us to wait for two hours which we did then they told us to wait another hour and a half . |
| 20 | Left to her own devices , Lucy wondered what she should do next , then realised she had little option but to wait until she ran into Silas . |
| 21 | These budgets allowed them to maintain pre-existing activity and referral patterns and have resulted in massive variations in per capita allocations between fundholders . |
| 22 | Speaking in a Belfast safe house a hooded IRA member claimed it had enough explosives and terrorists in place for a major offensive . |
| 23 | Joy made one last desperate attempt and produced the most horrendous squeak ever , like a hare caught by a harvest scythe . |
| 24 | It was claimed that trustees of the NUM ( the President , the Vice-President and the Secretary ) were in breach of their duties and the High Court ordered them to recover these assets and hand them over to the sequestrators . |
| 25 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 26 | 8e Lawrence admitted : ‘ We watched them play that day and they slaughtered us . |
| 27 | When she found a lot more shoots in different places , she decided they needed more air and light , so she began to pull out the thick grass around them . |
| 28 | After dinner , it being light at that time until midnight , we took our friend into the hotel garden and , for possible use in the film , recorded him shouting German wheel and engine-room orders such as would have been used by Prien during the mission . |
| 29 | In Street a man named he had two sons and he had , he had to quote , give a contract for it , but he always used to do what they 'd call a workhouse feed , and it was a four pound loaf , when my father died mother did n't get a widow 's pension , what , what she got was two shillings for each lad , there 's four of us , that 's eight shillings and a four pound loaf for each lad |
| 30 | Once I met her carrying several parcels and she called to me . |