Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dangerous logic of events was leading to a predictable conclusion , though Sarah and Coleridge had met for the first time only nine days before and were of fundamentally different temperaments , she sharp-tongued , humorous and practical , he procrastinating and visionary . |
| 2 | No doubt a lack of soap and water had accounted for the black faces , and not the pigment of their skin . |
| 3 | As the sky slowly brightened and they waited , Fleury thought of how he and Harry had waited for the first attack of all at the beginning of June . |
| 4 | In the previous chapter it was pointed out that both classical and neoclassical criminology had already incorporated some principles that were to be fundamental to positivism : classical criminology had insisted on practical crime control rather than retributive desert as the aim of punishment , and neoclassicism had allowed for the principle at least of ‘ determinants ’ of crime . |
| 5 | Here , through the space of a breath or two , she could live for a moment in the rapturous evening when she and Lal had dressed for the Hunt Ball : the evening that had given her Andrew . |
| 6 | Hitherto galleries had been living-rooms presenting pictures as ‘ adjuncts to polite living ’ , but Kasmin had fallen for the new American abstract painting and wanted the clean New York look to go with it — the neutral , bare , well-lit space demanded by the strictures of the art . |