Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Netherlands disagreed because it thought harmonised taxes would be too weak . |
| 2 | Two days of warm spring weather opened the flowers of forsythia bushes in the neglected garden behind Merrill 's flat , and she hummed as she cut long stems of the starry yellow blossom . |
| 3 | Differently again , the overture to A Month in the Country conveys romantic nostalgia with deeper hints of passion which Lanchbery created when he arranged little-known music by Chopin . |
| 4 | The Minister does not know the figures , but I shall tell him what farmers in Orkney found when they made simple inquiries . |
| 5 | He excelled when he caught fine rays of sunlight dappling the surface of a lake . |
| 6 | Faldo conceded the French and Belgian Opens when victory seemed a formality and he bristled when I questioned these fallibilities during his march to triumph in the European Open at Sunningdale . |
| 7 | Surkov 's hand trembled as he lit another cigarette . |
| 8 | Throttles opened wide , the engines roared as they regained flying speed , the Vimy skimmed the waves so close that the spray beat underneath the wings . |
| 9 | The difficulty came when one imagined these numbers written on the spine of a book , or on the can of a filmstrip or an audio-cassette , and given to an untrained person to shelve or file in a sequence . |
| 10 | His best season so far came when he rode 28 winners , and with 22 to his credit already this term , he is on course to better that total . |
| 11 | This bottle seems to have a plastic stopper , ’ he murmured as he filled two glasses . |
| 12 | The day before we finished mixing ‘ UF Orb ’ , Robert Fripp phoned and asked if we wanted any guitaring on the album … ’ |
| 13 | The two men have different versions of the meeting which followed , and there were no witnesses except for a waiter who interrupted them in the middle of the shouting match and asked if they wanted any sandwiches . |
| 14 | While waiting , I asked if he had many riverside cases . |
| 15 | When she explained what the kidnappers were after and asked if he had any idea where or what the document might be , his reply was predictably negative . |
| 16 | I also asked if it affected sexual performance . |
| 17 | ‘ I never even asked if you had other plans for tonight , ’ she said . |
| 18 | In a typically Chinese way , when I was discharged , the doctor who had treated me escorted me to the car , and shook hands and asked if I had any complaints , as he knew the hospital left plenty of room for improvement . |
| 19 | ‘ I could n't understand why the front door would not open and this young fellow appeared and asked if I wanted any help . |
| 20 | Newman nodded as they passed one dwelling . |
| 21 | Christina 's hand shook as she sipped golden rum from the bottle and passed it to Stephen . |
| 22 | In late 1984 Feshaie and a friend left home and simply walked until they found some EPLF fighters . |
| 23 | It all began when I won New Faces , but it gave me a very big head . |
| 24 | Keith grinned as he selected another file . |
| 25 | Jesus said simply that they failed because they had little faith . |
| 26 | His latest excuse — that the recession is masking the success of the economy — is the equivalent of ‘ we only lost because they scored more goals ’ . |
| 27 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
| 28 | A keen breeze had sprung up and they watched as it chased fallen leaves along the pavement , blowing them into little heaps against the red brick wall . |
| 29 | She gave him a few things , all invented , and watched as he jotted some notes in the ledger . |
| 30 | If , so far as the Continent is concerned , the Viking impact is essentially a West Frankish phenomenon , that is because the Vikings went where they knew moveable wealth was to be had . |