Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note that because these are special weapons used only by the Engineers School they are not available to character models . |
| 2 | He moved coolly to the drinks cabinet , picked up the crystal decanter . |
| 3 | Eventually I gave up hope of ever seeing my Mom again , and stealing a penny from beneath a milk bottle , bought a platform ticket and stowed away in the goods wagon of a train bound — I thought — for Sheffield and my beloved Grandfather . |
| 4 | Perhaps the meeting in 1896 at which " a choir rendered several hymns which added greatly to the evenings enjoyment " was the last effort to attract more people . |
| 5 | Perhaps the meeting in 1896 at which " a choir rendered several hymns which added greatly to the evenings enjoyment " was the last effort to attract more people . |
| 6 | He appealed directly to the pieds noirs and the army , using rhetoric that combined intimidating references to the authority of the state with tendentious but effective arguments to reassure them about the " real " aim of his policy . |
| 7 | On Jan. 22 two bombs exploded simultaneously in the police headquarters and court buildings in New Delhi , injuring 43 people . |
| 8 | Instantly he whipped round and dropped reflexively into the zingi tu'ii kung-fu fighting stance . |
| 9 | But seven more victims came forward during the police investigation and ‘ as many as a hundred ’ may have been abused by the smooth-talking doctor , a senior detective admitted . |
| 10 | Erm I know there had been occasion when we had people sleeping on the the stairway and you know , I think occasionally and but I think sometimes that was maybe somebody got home from a blues party , and had too much to drink or something , and they came into the warm , the heat w from the the downstairs flat , er k comes up on the stairwell , and I know there was someone sleeping there . |
| 11 | It looks , in fact , as if an incautious fingertip landed just above the words WILLIAMS and HOSIER — withdrawing hastily but too late . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Lou Macari arrived with Stoke City , dominated the game and went away with the points thanks to a goal by Tony Ellis . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Or Munni , a slum dweller in Delhi , arrested with 11 others and kept overnight at a police station where she was stripped and beaten . |
| 18 | I was arrested on a Wednesday and kept overnight at the police station and questioned . |
| 19 | He strode across to the drinks cabinet . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was lost on Duncan , who smiled courteously at the police inspector . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | The case put forward by the pensions industry was less than persuasive . |
| 24 | What consideration is my hon. Friend giving to the scheme put forward by the services charity , SSAFA — the Soldiers ' , Sailors ' and Airmen 's Families Association — to deal with redundant housing stock ? |
| 25 | Several pamphlets issued recently by the Publications Department of the Cooperative Union are eminently suitable for this purpose ( 1 ) ‘ United action : Trades unionists and cooperators combine to meet the capitalist menace ’ , ( 2 ) ‘ Cooperation and Labour unrest ’ , ( 3 ) ‘ Cooperators and reconstruction ’ . |
| 26 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |
| 27 | Michael Stoute , who trained one of last season 's toughest horses , Rock Hopper , has found a worthy successor in Saddlers ' Hall , who romped home with the Lanes End John Porter Stakes . |
| 28 | Field Marshal Montgomery wrote breezily in a services journal : ‘ If we are attacked , we use nuclear weapons in our defence . |
| 29 | With the wind in the first half , ’ Mere applied great pressure which was rewarded with an excellent try by Bannatyne who ran straight through the Mariners defence . |
| 30 | When they travelled together in a police car they had driven around in silence . |