Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] had [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the gleam of a Marat in his eyes , and his eloquence took on a Satanic ring when he invoked the rising wrath of his colleagues against the festering scum that by cowardice and sloth had reduced the British Empire to a moribund thing , in peril of annihilation . |
| 2 | Memory was tested by cued recall , using slides in which both the woman and the peripheral car were missing and subjects had to describe the missing details , and by recognition , four-alternative forced-choice ( 4AFC ) tested using an additional three slides with the colours of the peripheral and central information changed . |
| 3 | Lucy arrived , drained and tight-lippéd , Jeremy had been having trouble with his girlfriend , and Lucy had provided the two a.m. shoulder all week . |
| 4 | By August 5 the cable had been laid , and Thomson had sent the first two messages over it . |
| 5 | Once the spirochaete which caused syphilis had been identified and Wassermann had invented the diagnostic reaction which perpetuates his name , the condition called general paralysis of the insane was recognized to be the result of a long-lasting infection . |
| 6 | Nicholson , Fonda and Hopper had become the best of friends . |
| 7 | As of mid-May Uzbekistan and Moldova had completed the relevant formalities ( on April 30 and May 5 respectively ) . |
| 8 | The estates had been neglected in the war and Sharpe had begun the laborious task of repairing the years of neglect . |
| 9 | All of Brundle 's simple rules and runes had left the complacent head which believed it knew it all anyway . |
| 10 | McStay and Grant had got the better of Hamilton and McGinlay while Slater and Collins were more effective than Lennon and Wright on the flanks . |
| 11 | and Mr had to see the different people being , acting like a magistrate while he was there as he was district commissioner . |
| 12 | But events elsewhere were passing them by , and by 1958 customary caution and reluctance had led the Nordic states to the point where any move would be a reaction to external developments , a point wryly made later by Per Haekkerup , the premier of Denmark : ‘ No stone was left unturned , no question unanswered . |
| 13 | After returning home the night before , he had lain awake for hours thinking yet again about the day five weeks before when he and Sam had found the Spanish cockboat . |
| 14 | Hawthorn and oak had colonised the same embankment . |
| 15 | This rise in the cost of oil had led to world-wide recession trade , and already during Ford 's presidency ( 1974–7 ) unemployment and inflation had struck the American economy hard . |
| 16 | Lamb and Botham had to swallow the very bitter pill of being dropped . |
| 17 | Mr and Mrs Harper had sat in their respective armchairs , Marge had sat on a red leather pouffe and she , Steve and Cliff had occupied the two-seater settee of the three-piece suite . |
| 18 | Whatever the nature of their relationship , it was clear that husband and wife had shared the same flat . |
| 19 | Before he reached them Paul and Joseph had hoisted the two boys , aged eleven and thirteen , onto their shoulders and were encouraging them to joust at one another with chopsticks from the table . |
| 20 | They lay together in the same blue-white room , though this time their lovemaking had been gentler and more familiar , as warmth and exploration of each other 's bodies and hearts had succeeded the glorious frenzy of their first coupling . |
| 21 | The ILP and BSP had formed the United Socialist Council in October 1916 when the Labour Party had appeared to be irrevocably committed to the war . |
| 22 | The new socialist regimes in Vietnam and Laos had undermined the military and political pre-eminence of the Western states in Southeast Asia and this counteracted Kovalenko 's objections to the ZOPFAN idea , provided that Vietnam and Laos were included within its ambit . |
| 23 | The chain was long , too long , and Debbie had unbuttoned the two top buttons of her blouse so that the stone would n't be hidden . |
| 24 | ‘ Ca n't trust the French , ’ the famous writer and philosopher had told the young man . |
| 25 | On their way up to their office in the attic , therefore , Ian and Theodora had to pass the open doors of the offices of the Dean and the Archdeacon on the ground floor , and that of Canon Wheeler on the first . |
| 26 | She approached by the same route she and Beador had taken the previous day . |
| 27 | Both Greeks and Latins had transformed the original Christian message to meet their own condition and both needed to develop a contemplative tradition within this active faith when the time was right . |
| 28 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 29 | He looked exhausted , and Juliet had to subdue the sudden urge she felt to stroke his drawn face . |
| 30 | planned for three months ahead : she had become the living corporate identity of the company : her face , clothes , and style had become the visual embodiment of her business . |