Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An intelligent player , who read the game well , Peter was a considerable asset in the top flight but , in only the third match of 1972–73 , he had the misfortune to break his leg in a tackle with his former Liverpool team-mate Tommy Smith , and it was a year or more before he was really able to play properly again , and that represented a real loss to the club . |
| 2 | At first , Stalin refused to believe the news of the attack and that enabled the German forces to achieve many objectives , Despite their rapid advance , however , the Germans failed to reach Moscow , partly because the Russians indulged in a ‘ scorched earth ’ policy , and on 6th . |
| 3 | The first is that Luftwaffe defences became better , too , and that caused a high price to be paid in terms of casualties . |
| 4 | It was a number on the Beach Exchange , and that meant a comfortable address in the right part of town . |
| 5 | It meant the US Tour and that meant an attractive career for me as well as him , I hoped . |
| 6 | I made him close to forty years old and that meant the stubby Mauser he was holding was in good hands . |
| 7 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 8 | Fenna came offering now only love , huge steady love and joy and that seemed the hardest thing to resist . |
| 9 | She wanted to hate him , and on one level she did , but part of her still wanted him , and that seemed the worst betrayal of all . |
| 10 | The erm Lowestoft Technical Institute was actually in Clapham Road and that got a direct hit |
| 11 | And that took a long time getting used to . |
| 12 | If you did n't , you were bawled out , and that took an awful lot of getting used to . |
| 13 | And he was the only lecturer who would admit that he 'd changed his mind about something since the last lecture , and that made a great impression on me . |
| 14 | And that made a big difference to my life . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ I 'm desperate to regain a Cup place , and that made the whole episode even worse . ’ |
| 16 | There was only one drawback and that concerned the weaker kittens that sometimes found themselves at the bottom of a pile of bodies and unable to breathe . |
| 17 | Yet he deposited her on it as carefully as if she were china , and that brought a weak tear to her eye . |
| 18 | However , Mr Major said he will retain the system of political honours — and that provoked an angry reaction from Labour . |
| 19 | John Muir 's header rocketed wide and that left a final score of 2-0 to Doncaster . |
| 20 | He assumed she was guilty , took it for granted that she was at the foot of everything , and that left a bitter taste in her mouth . |
| 21 | And that left the reigning title-holder to coast to the line 40 seconds clear of Mansell — but 58 points adrift after 11 rounds . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , the forwards were comprehensively outscrummaged and that left the whole team at a severe disadvantage . |
| 23 | Because the European Community have been heavily heavily subsidising its farmers right , they were having in order farmers were too successful , we 've had wine lakes , we had erm er butter mountains , we had to get rid of that , that was subsidised on the world market , as a result of that world market prices would come down right and that induced the agricultural government sorry the er American government to support its agriculture right and these chaps estimate that nearly half of the support given to the U S farmers merely offset their losses caused by essentially European Community and Japan subsidising their farmers . |
| 24 | And that included a few classroom crushes . |
| 25 | And that proved a costly mistake as super dad Polston pounced to prise away the three points and send the Canaries of Norwich flying high after again ruffling the feathers of their championship detractors . |
| 26 | erm And erm when he came back after the war , he actually was so much involved on the parliamentarian side he had to leave Oxford during the war , but when he came back he built a school in the city which was actually in the Guildhall courtyard , it was built round the courtyard , and that remained a free school , for the city 's boys right up to the end of the 19th century . |
| 27 | And that defined the permanent character of the United States and then what happened subsequently er was of course that the , in the twentieth century , er America evolved into an industrial power erm and certain changes were made to the American constitution which had a profound impact . |
| 28 | Statements of evidence were prepared and served in accordance with the rules and a psychiatric report from a consultant psychiatrist was available at court and that gave the early history and background about this very disturbed boy . |
| 29 | It might be that it was the incessant closeness to blood , death and suffering that brought out these sentiments in men who had , on the whole , been raised in an education system that rejected such responses as feminine and unmasculine , and that promoted an abstract conception of justice and a stern morality of obedience to rules . |
| 30 | And that created a slight sort of canary-hopping attitude to policy-making which I do n't think was very good and in the end I think Mrs Thatcher felt the same . |