Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The factory which was in Leith had what would now he called a creche where the children could it and play and he looked after whilst the mothers got on with the ground sheets … and the war . |
| 2 | On Nov. 25 a programme agreed on by the coalition partners was announced in the National Assembly . |
| 3 | She rode furiously to the asylum grounds and looked up at the tree where the leaves had run riot in late summer . |
| 4 | The assessor will observe the trainee performing a unit of competence in the work environment , ask any relevant questions and then decided whether the candidate is competent by judging the performance against the recognised criteria laid down in the NVQ standards . |
| 5 | Each dance followed particular rules laid down by the dancing masters , and this idea continued to prevail even after Gluck began to compose operas and ballets which had greater continuity . |
| 6 | When calculating the time limits laid down by the RHA conditions , certain days have to be excluded . |
| 7 | This does not mean that today 's choreographers need follow the conventions laid down by the Renaissance scholars who were more interested in the physical ability and behaviour of courtiers . |
| 8 | But today there was the picnic , and who could tell what would happen once the four of them got in amongst the pine coverts of Ham Park . |
| 9 | As soon as I got to the wire I spotted a gap and ran through it , only to see Private Prescott overtake me as he charged on towards the enemy lines . |
| 10 | Public commendations and small gratuities were so minor in character , and so random in distribution , that they contributed little to the City Police 's power of inducement . |
| 11 | The black walls of an enormous sprawling house rose menacingly from the rank weeds and thorns and , as Cleo had noticed , a thin reed of smoke was seeping from one of the many narrow chimneys . |
| 12 | There is no substitute for actually practising a bargaining activity and role playing is a useful method used in off the job courses . |
| 13 | Merrill went over to the wide settee and sank down into the feather cushions . |
| 14 | There were no pavements in the little village of Samana , four or five miles from the complex , and chickens and goats wandered idly along the dirt roads , scavenging for scraps . |
| 15 | Outdoors , he continued to carry the picture while walking bipedally , and he headed directly for the gorilla quarters which were located near the adult-ape house on a hill behind the language lab . |
| 16 | At that instant , his paralysis vanished and he moved quickly towards the glass doors . |
| 17 | There was no wind and the smoke rose straight from the farm chimneys and the bare branches of the roadside trees were still as they stretched across the cold sky . |
| 18 | This convinced all but the Party members that the Communists had abandoned their previous opposition to Fascism and simply removed the core of the alliances built up during the Unity campaigns . |
| 19 | The circumstances of Doe 's capture and his killing drained much of the credibility built up by the ECOMOG forces , then under the command of Lt.-Gen. |
| 20 | Hitler 's extraordinary popular standing , built up in the peacetime years on the foundations of his perceived personal achievement in overcoming economic and political crisis , ridding Germany of unemployment , and making the nation great again through an astonishing series of diplomatic coups , was maintained in the first phase of the war ; it was then even further elevated through the scarcely conceivable run of military victories attained with minimal loss and sacrifice and , not least , through the prospect he continued to hold up of an imminent glorious end to the war . |
| 21 | The grass sprouted up between the paving slabs and the lawn was nearly overspilling with bushes and flowers now growing wild . |
| 22 | The papers was published in 1966 but Pons left Ann Arbor , his PhD work uncompleted , lured back to the family businesses . |
| 23 | Karelius peered out at the theatre lamps glowing through the mist . |
| 24 | Samantha wandered out through the plastic strips of a door-curtain to where death-dealing lorries thundered down Mondano 's main street . |
| 25 | As they moved out onto the entrance steps , they saw a breakdown wagon thundering by and raising up dust in the square . |
| 26 | Now , as her fingers moved smoothly over the piano keys , Laura acknowledged that Julie was right . |
| 27 | He would captain with a frown of thunder , the worry lines etched deep as a rift valleys , his arms locked defiantly across his chest . |
| 28 | That was a time when the proudest moment of Denis 's young life had been being brought by his mother to Fitzgerald 's Park to see his father , brave and bold and handsome in his dress uniform , standing firmly to attention with his company as His Majesty King Edward VII — who seemed to Denis like a huge teapot with his cigar puffing steam like a spout — and Queen Alexandra moved sedately among the flower displays at the Great Cork Exhibition . |
| 29 | Many had long engaged in the production of cocoons for the silk industry , and as silk production rose dramatically in the interwar years more and more farmers engaged in this by-employment . |
| 30 | Here and there a few people moved about amongst the chicken coops and the junk : a girl chasing a goose into a pen , a boy flying a kite . |