Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benbulbin ought to have been called Benbulbous , for one end of the barbaric table bulged upward in a great curve , with lesser knuckle-shapes on each side . |
| 2 | Certainly the geographical scope of European and European-style diplomacy expanded strikingly during the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Although until late in 1912 Picasso and Braque lived in Montmartre and had relatively little contact with the other Cubists who lived mostly on the Left Bank or in the suburbs , they did not live in isolation . |
| 4 | We rode slowly down the beaten track . |
| 5 | Joseph rode slowly from the southern end of the camp , with five warriors walking beside him and leaning against his horse 's flanks . |
| 6 | The search for new policies led additionally to the widespread adoption of monetary targets in most economies , including the UK , apparently giving some acceptance of the monetarist claim that inflation is a consequence of a rapid growth in the money supply . |
| 7 | The gates led right onto a busy road , there were some derelict public loos next door and a boating lake opposite . |
| 8 | The religious zeal of the Portuguese set them apart from their British counterparts , who allowed complete religious freedom and interfered little with the indigenous culture . |
| 9 | The scale of private charity expanded remarkably in the mid-nineteenth century and offered considerable protection to the poor against the rigours of the Poor Law . |
| 10 | The gravel track led downhill into a narrow belt of silver birch and rowan . |
| 11 | Considering themselves to be superior , they cared little for the ordinary person and looked down on the sinners . |
| 12 | In the first direct contact between the MPLA government and the rebel UNITA movement since the summit at Gbadolite ( Zaïre ) in June 1989 [ see p. 36726 ] , high ranking delegations from each side met secretly in the Portuguese town of Evora on April 24-25 . |
| 13 | The fellow gazed suspiciously round the crowded tavern . |
| 14 | Cardiff attacked gamely in the final quarter and scored a late try through Jeffreys . |
| 15 | The Bishop sighed and gazed wearily at the opposite wall . |
| 16 | He lived right on the main road he was very vulnerable ! |
| 17 | A cheese resembling Camembert was the glory of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire , where records for cheese making go back to as early as 1280 ; and production ceased only in the mid-nineteenth century with the enclosure of the common fen . |
| 18 | Within a quarter of an hour Thomas was back , hugging himself with pleasure in his own cunning , and they passed together through the little door , and drew it to again after them . |
| 19 | These were the fighting heroes of their day , whose exploits lived long in the popular imagination . |
| 20 | John Ashenden , seated alone in the front nearside seat , debated with himself about reaching for the microphone and saying a few words about Somerville College , the Radcliffe Infirmary , the Tower of the Winds , the large , late nineteenth-century redbrick residences , St Edward 's School … |
| 21 | It was n't just the sustained rumbling growls rising to a frenzy as two dogs threatened each other then lunged together in a bitter embrace , each asserting its place in the hierarchy , the priority of its rights over the red bitch . |
| 22 | Lady Grace bridal gowns from Sposa Bella Manufacturing Ltd are designed and made especially for the larger bride in sizes 18–30 . |
| 23 | Having just secured world rights for her first book , she 's leading a life of food and snooze ; interrupted only by the occasional television interview . |
| 24 | The lucrative trade in duty-free goods with buyers from Argentina and Brazil , centred especially on the eastern border town of Ciudad del Este ( formerly Puerto Stroessner ) on the Rio Paraná , was buoyant in the second half of 1990 , but was threatened by the March 1991 decision of Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay to create a common market [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 25 | His pursuit of the same approach in his cantatas arose perhaps from a firm conviction of what would succeed in a genre so closely allied to opera , perhaps from innate conservatism . |
| 26 | ‘ When I first had Sammy he peed all over the blimmin' place . |
| 27 | Twenty years earlier , R. A. Butler had shared the same fate , recalling the ‘ blood curdling demands ’ made annually at the Conservative Party Conference for the restoration of corporal punishment which had ‘ quite clouded ’ his time as Chairman of the Party . |
| 28 | It picked up joint third prize in the British Tourism Awards made annually by the British Guild for Travel Writers . |
| 29 | After his death his " rock band " disappeared and was last seen , rumour says , broken and tumbled together in an old wash-house . |
| 30 | The support of business could bring about a review of 16–19 education with the intention of integration of the pre-vocational and applied together with the academic curriculum . |