Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the almond eyes gazed fiercely over the child 's head towards Nana . |
| 2 | The children moved slowly towards the aunt 's seat . |
| 3 | Secondly , the gift must be made upon the condition that it is to be absolute and perfected only on the donor 's death , being revocable until that event occurs and ineffective if it does not . |
| 4 | He moved easily amongst the TOP 's . |
| 5 | Sun Life appointed a relocation officer at executive level who reported directly to the company 's general manager . |
| 6 | But , finding her exclamation had produced no reaction in the only other passenger not comfortably below , save in the stem for a scatter of peasants returning with emptied baskets from Naples , she moved nearer along the ship 's greasy rail . |
| 7 | The youngest visitor , aged about six and dressed ready for bed in pyjamas , helped his father to decipher the jottings in his field notebook and then reported earnestly on the day 's tally . |
| 8 | James Milroy 's ( 1976 ) phonological analysis , which provided an essential basis for subsequent quantitative phonological work , drew both on the analyst 's intuition and on the pilot-study data . |
| 9 | The Government 's introduction of general practitioner fundholding has been a clear success , a fact confirmed in the independent academic research undertaken by Professor Glennerster of the London school of economics reported today by the King 's Fund . |
| 10 | Its 80860 development team moved across to the firm 's 80586 P5 effort , where Intel has now focused most of its resources . |
| 11 | They poured a drink and bowed and knelt twice before the pig 's head . |
| 12 | It smacked savagely into the man 's face , flattening his nose . |
| 13 | The almost unanimous electoral abstention of CNT members in November 1933 , in protest at the shortcomings of Republican reformism and the repressiveness of the Azaña governments towards the CNT itself , contributed significantly to the left 's defeat . |
| 14 | Hewlett-Packard Co last week announced an agreement with Intel Corp under which the two will develop a chip set designed specifically for the HP 700/RX family of Intel 80960 RISC processor-based X-Window System stations . |
| 15 | I would like to ask a question , that if this particular rule is n't necessary , then how does a branch go about appealing a decision made elsewhere in the union 's hierarchy ? |
| 16 | To quote Piesse again , " If there is much legal jargon and intricacy of arrangement [ the client ] may feel he is the victim of some art practised perhaps for the draftsman 's own purposes or at least with neglectful indifference to its effect on ordinary people " ( p54 ) . |
| 17 | It is a car town and it is a city of immigrants , white , brown and black : Scots and Irish have staffed its militant shop stewards ' movement , and the races came together in the city 's wondrous two-tone band , the Selector . |
| 18 | Played all over the place ai n't he ? |
| 19 | Although the current intake came entirely from the college 's National Certificate Programme , the aim is to broaden the entry . |
| 20 | While von Karajan created his own personality cult — which added greatly to the orchestra 's prestige and earnings — Abbado is modest , unassuming and hates publicity . |
| 21 | True , even costumed thus as a Trader 's mistress she would be armed — with a garrotte or two , some tiny digital weapons for slipping on to her fingers , phials of the chemicals she used . |
| 22 | He came away from the lawyer 's office with the keys of the house in his pocket . |
| 23 | Sarah twisted away from the physician 's grasp and darted back inside the foundry to where Bill Yardley still sat on the trough . |
| 24 | He came home from a night 's fishing with the news that King George V was having a review of the British fleet , and would sail through the Channel to Chatham at the head of his Navy , leading them in a dreadnought . |
| 25 | Came home from a week 's camp with local youngsters to find that the whole house had been ransacked , windows smashed , kids toys broken , the water boiler ripped out and everything wet . |
| 26 | Although society as a whole was very far from accepting the extremes of revolutionary order and , of course , most of Europe , Britain above all , had fought for years to suppress it , the painfulness of the Church 's early experience of the Revolution helped to keep it profoundly opposed even to the Revolution 's more moderate implications , ones increasingly accepted by European society as a whole . |
| 27 | On the other hand , he believed implicitly in a father 's financial duty towards his children . |
| 28 | Each day he came twice to the banker 's house and sat in the sickroom , warm and better furnished now , and kept his lover company ; sometimes talking , sometimes in silence . |
| 29 | ‘ Have you gone speechless on me again ? ’ he murmured tauntingly as Cavell Fielding came forward from the restaurant 's extravagantly decorative entrance opposite them , a slight widening of her sapphire eyes the only surprise she evinced at seeing them together . |
| 30 | Never about bad cards , of course , he was much too professional for that , never about the fall of the dice in backgammon ; he had himself under control — just — when his bridge partner made a miscalculation and played unnecessarily into an opponent 's finesse . |