Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew stories about Anancy the spider and the Maroon people who fought the British in the mountains . |
| 2 | Valentine 's pertinent comments about the origins of different behaviour originating in structural constraints which excluded the poor from the life-styles of the more affluent have lost none of their force , but any consideration of everyday life in Cramlington and North Shields has to address the issue of different and distinctive life-styles which are none the less embedded in a common cultural matrix . |
| 3 | It shaped the aesthetic of the lyrics and meditations concerned with the life of Christ which they wrote to convey their understanding imaginatively . |
| 4 | A puff shook a glittering from the thorns , |
| 5 | To his left Corbett heard a slithering on the cobbles . |
| 6 | Almost as he spoke they heard a crashing in the bushes at the top of the ridge above them . |
| 7 | But I left the first of her three Sunday night shows feeling vaguely let down after a set that mixed the great with the gaffs . |
| 8 | But the spokeswoman said the concession in no way gave the allclear for the brewers to delay action . |
| 9 | But if he accepted , and then resigned the archbishopric into the hands of the pope , as he continued to wish to do , the responsibility for a new appointment would lie with the pope , and Anselm would ‘ justly ’ be free from a position which he hated . |
| 10 | His skies boiled and burned , or they reflected the eternal in the eyes of a baby . |
| 11 | And when we had a down near the banks dyke and it was fenced round and we used to carry the hens down there at night in a sack on your back . |
| 12 | but erm , had a little with the children 's Christmas presents |