Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It looks , in fact , as if an incautious fingertip landed just above the words WILLIAMS and HOSIER — withdrawing hastily but too late . |
| 32 | Was this what the murderer had done , leaving fingerprints which were by now enlarged and recorded and locked away at the police station , waiting to be produced at the trial ? |
| 33 | I also duped a few stupid coventry fans into thinking I was a new signing as i walked out of the officials entrance after the match … did about 8 or 9 autographs : - ) ) ) |
| 34 | On Belial Base , Bernice and Cheryl walked back into the Operations Room , and into the middle of a furious argument . |
| 35 | While Lisabeth was mainlining Cadbury 's Bournville I rummaged around for a sports bag ( one that advertised Marlboro fags , naturally ) and began to pack a spare everything . |
| 36 | The programme got underway with the Liberties Festival in Dublin and continues right through the summer , finishing with the Wexford Opera Festival and the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival in October . |
| 37 | ‘ The SS went to a great deal of trouble on the public relations side : there was background music , lorries ready to transport women , children and the infirm , while prisoners were at hand to act as porters ; in short an atmosphere of relative welcome greeted the Jews when they got out of the cattle trucks … ’ |
| 38 | Just before half-time City came back with a goal from Ian Baird it was well made and well taken … food for thought for the United defence and of course Smith who started off in the directors box but was down on the touchline after this incident in which David Penney charged into Junior Bent … |
| 39 | Speaking to journalists , the former deputy Labour leader on Liverpool council hit out at the police decision to press ahead with the action against him . |
| 40 | DEREK HATTON , the former Labour politician cleared yesterday of plotting to defraud Liverpool city council , last night hit out at the police decision to press ahead with the action against him . |
| 41 | ‘ I worked very closely with the clients who see two sets of proofs , ’ says Cleary , 28 , a history graduate who started out in the antiques world but did n't find the challenge she expected and joined Barkers Trident as an editorial assistant . |
| 42 | Ninety three members and friends then went on to the Headlands Hotel for a celebration dinner where all the ladies received a white carnation . |
| 43 | We looked down over the police barrier at the upside-down Golf below us . |
| 44 | Lou Macari arrived with Stoke City , dominated the game and went away with the points thanks to a goal by Tony Ellis . |
| 45 | The workhouse master reported that Connolly then put his boots on and went off to the police station to make a complaint of assault . |
| 46 | Back in Cardiff , my name went up on the Honours Board and my father , in the last year before his retirement , quietly enjoyed the thought that I was to spend at least part of my life in the county in which his father had been born . |
| 47 | A telex is only a message sent electronically along a communications cable and translated into type on a piece of paper at the receiving end . |
| 48 | DeVore looked up from the wei chi board and smiled . |
| 49 | After four years in the Royal Artillery , Dignam was invalided out of the army and went straight to the Arts Theatre , where he was a delightfully tongue-in-cheek Shavian Angel and a foxy Claudius , proving Stanislavsky 's adage , as Agrippa in the Anthony Quayle/Edith Evans Antony and Cleopatra , that there are ‘ no small parts ’ . |
| 50 | Another delay as the work train was slowly shunted along , and as there were no seats on the customer side of the counter in the tiny room he went out into the periodicals area . |
| 51 | I actually put forward an amendment , to the police authority , whereby we take that er , million pounds o , of pensions , and by a certain amount of slight of hand , it be put back into county balances , and then re-allocated back to the police authority for this year , and that would have added an extra million to the base budget and it would not have cost this county council one extra penny . |
| 52 | As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film . |
| 53 | Or Munni , a slum dweller in Delhi , arrested with 11 others and kept overnight at a police station where she was stripped and beaten . |
| 54 | I was arrested on a Wednesday and kept overnight at the police station and questioned . |
| 55 | He strode across to the drinks cabinet . |
| 56 | Her mother , Jane , rushed forward to greet her as she emerged on to the arrivals concourse at London 's Heathrow airport , while her nephew John ( 12 ) and niece Jessica ( eight ) leaped into her arms . |
| 57 | We booted out the pews , the pulpit , the kneeling desks , had Burmese lacquer altar frontals , did away with the alms bags and their seasonal colours and used a monk 's begging bowl instead . |
| 58 | Greg flicked back to the contents list . |
| 59 | It was lost on Duncan , who smiled courteously at the police inspector . |
| 60 | Of slight compensation were the visits of the ‘ professional ’ visitors , such as the patriotic , exquisite , ‘ Lady in Green ’ , described by Duhamel , who spoke inspiredly to the grands mutilés of |