Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derek , just keep up the pressure , just demonstrate how we got them by the short and curlies and |
| 2 | In France many noblemen , especially those of middling to lower rank , were so impoverished that they needed the king 's wages , which provided them with a better and surer income than did their lands . |
| 3 | Women elsewhere , different women , living by another code provided them with a common and inexhaustible theme . |
| 4 | Further questions on unemployment ‘ people do n't want training they want jobs ’ , homelessness and the NHS left Mr Major a little wobbly but provided him with the best and closing line of the night . |
| 5 | It twisted and turned and bore her into an ominous and derelict suburb , stark in the orange street lights . |
| 6 | When sentencing him at Oxford Crown Court today , Judge Leo Clarke described it as a motiveless and shocking attack . |
| 7 | Does my right hon. Friend remember that when the investment income surcharge was abolished in 1984 , the then Chancellor of the Exchequer described it as an unfair and anomalous tax on savings and on the rewards of personal enterprise ? |
| 8 | The Chinese also evaluated Microsoft Corp Windows NT but dismissed it as an incomplete and immature platform . |
| 9 | So we referred it to the confed and er we had the officers down and the matter was resolved and we got our increase and it was acceptable by everybody . |
| 10 | The Earl of Salisbury , director of government intelligence ( and chief minister of the realm ) , infiltrated and masterminded it as a timely and much-needed device to make permanent the rule of the same monarch and régime . |
| 11 | The three candidates never lifted it beyond a hard and drab slog . |
| 12 | Dzo bells lulled us to sleep and then woke us to a clear and sunny morning . |
| 13 | The hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) told us in the briefest and skimpiest of ways — that is to be expected from the new model Labour party — of the Labour party 's pledge to return to a policy of fair rates . |
| 14 | Edward of course was unaware of its connotations and encouraged it as a handsome and relatively uncommon plant . |
| 15 | Once they took one away from the woodpile and hid it in the stable and the mother searched everywhere , growing more and more distressed . |
| 16 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 17 | When Polybius and Scipio found themselves alone in the neighbourhood of the Forum ( Polybius goes on to tell us ) Scipio , " blushing slightly , addressed him in a quiet and gentle way : " Why , Polybius , since there are two of us , do you constantly converse with my brother and address to him all the questions and explanations but ignore me ? " " ( 31.23.8–9 ) . |
| 18 | Sex had brought them together , bound them through the difficult and dangerous years when he was actively opposing the authorities . |
| 19 | ‘ We 're not playing , Connelly , ’ Farrell told him and pulled him across the hot and clammy room . |
| 20 | The second and third albums , ‘ Freewheelin ’ ( 1962 ) and ‘ The Times They are a Changin ’ ( 1963 ) , established him as a real and original talent , as both singer and songwriter , with a message that seemed as arresting and vital as the times through which he was fortunate to be living . |
| 21 | ‘ Because of the angle I had no chance of getting it over the bar with my right foot so I simply hit it with the left and it went over . ’ |
| 22 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 23 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 24 | When I moved in to my flat she had to a certain extent taken me over , and treated me like an erring and somewhat unintelligent son who obviously needed the care and attention of a responsible adult . |
| 25 | The general manager of the company Ian McCall said ; ‘ We have had a tremendous response already and we expect parents who wore them in the fifties and sixties to buy them for their children . ’ |
| 26 | Most observers , therefore , saw him as a tough and humourless man whose intransigent attitude had led to the quarrels with his friends ; Keats dubbed him ‘ the Egotistical Sublime ’ . |
| 27 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 28 | By contrast , though Dr McNab also possessed authority and combined it with a calm and dignified manner , he seemed to lack Dr Dunstaple 's good humour . |
| 29 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 30 | And thanks to Tom chasing up membership that actually brought us in a hundred and ninety nine pounds seventy er throughout the year . |