Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adult education classes can increase skills in subjects like photograph , badminton , or a language , often leading to joining a club or group devoted to that interest . |
| 2 | To avoid having to place soft material under the feet of a loft ladder every time it 's used , stick a small piece of foam rubber or carpet underlay to each foot of the ladder . |
| 3 | Neither athletics nor soccer prospered from black participation in the same way as boxing , but there were exceptions . |
| 4 | Tasks which placed greater demands on interpretation and judgement resulted in lower success rates . |
| 5 | The din and chaos continued for some time after help arrived from the êchelon of spectators , Charles and Peregrine among them . |
| 6 | Morning and afternoon encircled in one light |
| 7 | In the Middle East there was a tradition of religious pluralism and the new faiths of Judaism and Zoroastrianism and — later — Christianity and Islam coexisted in relative harmony ; in India during the seventeenth century , some Muslims and Hindus pooled their ideas and attempted to find a common vision : Sikhism was born of this attempt . |
| 8 | Spectra from a clean tungsten surface and from oxygen and hydrogen chemisorbed on that surface are shown in Fig. 2 . |
| 9 | We came here because our brother and sister went to this school . |
| 10 | ‘ Can I … go for a walk in the garden while I think it over ? ’ she blurted , and brother and sister looked at each other . |
| 11 | When he came to Noreen , Paddy stopped , and brother and sister stared at each other . |
| 12 | Grandma and Granddad slept in one bedroom ; Mother , Father and I in the other ; and my two great-uncles slept downstairs . |
| 13 | Morag and Granny started on this job right away but they soon found that it was n't as easy as it looked . |
| 14 | Although this took place only three days later , Brunel and Burn had in that time examined forty-four schemes and produced a nine-page report vindicating the efforts of Angell and Pownall . |
| 15 | Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 226 ) wrote of the surrealist movement that ‘ life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone as by the steps of multitudinous images flooding back and forth , language only seemed itself where sound and image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in-the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ . |
| 16 | Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 226 ) wrote of the surrealist movement that ‘ life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone as by the steps of multitudinous images flooding back and forth , language only seemed itself where sound image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in. the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ . |
| 17 | A decline in the interest in ethnographic collections in the early to mid 20th century , particularly post Second World War , by both the public and academia led to substantial destruction and neglect of the material . |
| 18 | He hoped the young man would relapse into muteness and leave him to read the privilege and privacy imbedded in this landscape , to note the pampered thoroughbreds grazing beyond the fences and glimpse their owners ' residences tucked down driveways discreetly screened by firs . |
| 19 | Our land and see cachit with mekle pyne , |
| 20 | This fitted in with the idea of mixed programming , whereby music , talks , variety and drama appeared on each station , exposing the listener to a varied choice , rather than the stations being specialized . |
| 21 | In recent years teaching in schools has become more project and assignment oriented with less emphasis on teaching and more emphasis on independent learning in the curriculum . |
| 22 | Husband and wife looked at each other , then the wife said , ‘ Our daughter is handicapped . |
| 23 | They were the unique public buildings of the age ; some were tiny little boxes , in which priest and parish nestled in cosy intimacy ; others much larger . |
| 24 | His wife and niece applauded with dutiful enthusiasm . |
| 25 | Called ‘ Suspense ’ , it showed a small girl , saying her prayers before having breakfast in bed , on either side her cat and dog waited in great anticipation . |
| 26 | Child and woman looked at each other with the same wonder and wariness , attracted and afraid . |
| 27 | My mother and father looked at each other . |
| 28 | I still have some letters which Mother and Father wrote to each other — beautiful letters , which are a revelation of their lives , both when they were courting and after they were married . |
| 29 | In the case described here , poor communication between an adolescent girl and both her mother and father resulted in mutual distrust . |
| 30 | These were very much in the tradition of the older polyphonic laudi , but before long imitation and chromaticism appeared in Oratorian laudi and by the end of the century an element of dramatic dialogue which was to flower into the full-blown ‘ oratorio ’ . |