Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She needed some more wood for her carving if she was to complete all the ‘ little comforters ’ , as she called them , during her three-week holiday away from the travel agents where she worked , small , smooth-shaped pieces of wood , lovingly carved and polished by herself to fit easily into the palm and which , much to her surprise and delight , were eagerly accepted by the large rehabilitation hospital in the next town that cared for the blind and mentally sick . |
| 2 | On certain days , it was said , a tramcar of unusual design was seen circulating slowly along the lines which passed through the poorest and most deprived slums in the city . |
| 3 | When she sank to the seat she had recently vacated he paced about a little and then swung to face her , his dark eyes angry . |
| 4 | In some ways Mr Major himself rose above a muddled and inexpertly directed campaign . |
| 5 | And in the course of each evening numbers rose from a dozen or so to a hundred , and then diminished as people wandered away to supper . |
| 6 | The doubt could be whispered in the 1930s , shouted in the 1940s and tacitly accepted as an established truth in the 1950s . |
| 7 | So why on earth she objected to the brief and fairly innocuous cartoons which portrayed her as scantily clad in Tuesday 's Without Walls , is beyond me . |
| 8 | Eye-witness accounts by British journalists told of the unprovoked and apparently indiscriminate shooting of civilians by British soldiers . |
| 9 | In Germany the large shift in Jewish identity came in the eighteenth and especially the nineteenth centuries as no longer Yiddish but German became the first language for most Jews . |
| 10 | Musgrave owes his reputation to the role he played in the complicated and imperfectly understood politics of the western Anglo-Scottish borders during the 1530s . |
| 11 | Much of the improvement in January came from a sharp and largely unexplained fall in spending by government departments . |
| 12 | His long nose came from the latter and more specifically from a genetic type unit near the Dead Sea . |
| 13 | to the inside in , working his way round it , he came from the outside and then he was coming in , you know . |
| 14 | The military muscle came from the large and predominantly Serb-officered Yugoslav National Army , which wanted to keep as many of its privileges as possible . |
| 15 | After an ignomminious start as ‘ the new Duran Duran ’ , a misinterpretation aided and abeted by a misdirected and consequently misunderstood debut album , ‘ The Party 's Over ’ , it was to take Talk Talk three more albums and three more years to shake that tag off . |
| 16 | We found that regardless of the subject labels adopted , the curriculum in practice consisted of a further and perhaps more influential ‘ core ’ of ten generic activities ( writing , using apparatus , reading , listening , drawing or painting , collaboration , movement , talking to the teacher , construction , talking to the class — see Table 3.1 ) . |
| 17 | The second Duma consisted of the same as before plus a few Social Democrats . |
| 18 | As the next straight stretch of lane came into view , Yanto took a deep breath , held it , and with a quick twist of the throttle raced past the obnoxious but very necessary vehicle . |
| 19 | Here a door opened into the older and more modest side of the house , the side where , in stages of inferiority , less important guests , children and , in a still more distant wing , servants slept . |
| 20 | In Denmark , where she opened with an 84 and ultimately holed a putt across the 18th green to make the half-way cut by a shot , an almost suicidal depression set in . |
| 21 | While the Council for British Archaeology 's Philip Thatz stated in an honest but politically inept way what treasure hunters have been saying for years that … |
| 22 | The discovery of the three devices in the past two days may mark a reappearance of the ‘ tartan terrorism ’ which flared in the 1970s and mostly disappeared as the perpetrators of various bank robberies and explosions were jailed . |
| 23 | The audience knew it too — it showed in the polite but faintly puzzled round of applause , far less enthusiastic than she normally received . |
| 24 | The de Warrenes had died out in the later middle ages , the priory was pulled down in 1538 , and with the disappearance of traditional authorities attention turned to the lesser but more numerous town houses of prosperous local merchants and the gentry who needed homes for the legal and social seasons . |
| 25 | When the concept of a wholly implantable automatic defibrillator was the first suggested by Mirowski in the 1970s it met with a sceptical and even hostile response from some sections of the cardiological community . |
| 26 | ‘ Now is n't this cosy , ’ she observed of the dank and barely furnished room , shadowed in the candlelight . |
| 27 | The Lord Chancellor began with the complacent and highly debatable observation that ‘ we are likely … to get a better assessment of the qualities of some eminent judge of the past through an existing member of the judiciary than from anyone else ’ . |
| 28 | As Chapters 3 and 4 have indicated , a coercive conservation policy for African cultivators existed alongside a voluntary and financially supported one for white commercial farmers . |
| 29 | In fact this banal verse , which forms a part of the novel At Swim-Two-Birds , is a satire on the cult of imbecile proletarian writers that began in the thirties and later reached its apotheosis under Joan Littlewood . |
| 30 | Obvious cracks soared to the left and right , reminiscent of Fairhead in Antrim , but I craved subtlety after the brutal corner we 'd just climbed . |