Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The touch of Asuryan was no longer so strong in his mind , and the Sword of Khaine no longer provided him with near limitless strength . |
| 2 | Squeezing her fist together she crumbled it into fine powdery dust . |
| 3 | Nicholas Blake , the poet C. Day Lewis , once told me with remembered acute dismay how that had happened to him . |
| 4 | He placed a little white enamel cup before each of them and filled it with strong black tea . |
| 5 | Dr Theo Angelov , President of the Baptist Union of Bulgaria , addressed the Wednesday evening rally on ‘ People to People in Europe ’ , when he told us of faithful Christian witness over a period of 40 years by many in his country living through extreme conditions and hardships under Communist rule . |
| 6 | But Ader Tajan is dogged by a debt of FFr30 million owed them by Japanese real estate investor Narita . |
| 7 | But it was n't easy to lose puppy fat when Mum fed her on stodgy good home cooking — stews with dumplings and meat pies with pastry crusts and steamed sponge puddings , and there was no money to spare for proper hairdressing salons . |
| 8 | The Fabians inherited both the positive scientific spirit and a conception that progress follows natural laws from the evolutionists , but they adapted it to French sociological positivism based on the principle of social solidarity . |
| 9 | TWO men accused of starting a brawl at an Indian restaurant were cleared yesterday when a jury heard how staff blitzed them with red hot curry powder . |
| 10 | Streat congratulated MacArthur on his ‘ momentous ’ achievements and then warned him against encouraging Japanese competition to the point where strong antagonism was aroused in western and eastern countries . |
| 11 | The train journey southward to Athlone took me through wild flat bogland scenery . |
| 12 | However , with the ascendancy of the conservative faction in the 1540s , Rudd began to achieve a modest prominence , being nominated clerk of the closet , which brought him into close personal contact with Henry VIII . |
| 13 | Mary Whitehouse denounced it for encouraging in-corridor insurrection , while Russell Knott from the National Association Of Schoolmasters complained that it made the teachers look like twats . |
| 14 | She then draped it with vivid red silk , secured in place with a glue gun . |
| 15 | Although the IFL 's extremism , lack of resources , and failure to make any impact made it of marginal political significance , the Jewish community were worried about its potential . |
| 16 | Before they left at the end of their week , Alastair and Stuart presented them with Scottish Nuclear baseball caps and T-shirts . |
| 17 | THE Bishop of Gloucester was in hiding last night after police quizzed him about alleged indecent behaviour towards a novice monk . |
| 18 | Hoccleve ‘ s interest for us is accidental : the pressures of his mental illness pushed him into vivid personal confession in an age in which autobiography was almost always purely conventional . |