Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civilised men , possessed of considerable intellect , as he was , could generally control their lust and even deny it when it was felt in response to a woman who was either despised or prevented from reciprocating for a variety of reasons , but they could not always control their emotions . |
| 2 | The Arab League Secretary-General , Chedli Klibi ( Tunisia ) , had already resigned on Sept. 3 , over alleged accusations from Saudi Arabia 's Foreign Minister , Prince Saud al Faisal , that he had failed in his mandate to discover why some Arab countries had expressed reservations or abstained from voting during the August Arab emergency summit on Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait [ see p. 37635 ] . |
| 3 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
| 4 | The couple were wined and dined before retiring to a plush suite for Valentine 's night . |
| 5 | Fiver looked as though he were about to speak , but then shook his ears and turned to nibbling at a dandelion . |
| 6 | He enjoyed success with the aristocracy , was commissioned by the King 's Physician to paint some two hundred rare plants and turned to tutoring in the London Season . |
| 7 | He had , during one terrible crisis , taken off his coat and acted as Sparks to the electricians and stage crew without causing any kind of trouble with the unions . |
| 8 | I was drunk as a pig and insisted on stamping on every bloody spider I found on my way back to our chamber . |
| 9 | She should have refused to go with him last night and insisted on staying in the car park . |
| 10 | Fiver and Acorn followed him out and fell to nibbling at a patch of sainfoin . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh yeah , ’ said Lydia gloomily and fell to plucking at the turf between her feet . |
| 12 | She sank deep down again , unable to stay alert , and saw without wanting to a giant Catherine-wheel in the sky . |
| 13 | ‘ But then , ’ she continued like a child reciting a story , ‘ he became secretive and withdrawn and took to meeting in a corner with a sinister-looking fellow . ’ |
| 14 | POLICE yesterday named a rambler who collapsed and died after walking on the North York Moors . |
| 15 | This is accomplished in either of two ways ; η sp can be expressed as a reduced quantity and extrapolated to according to the relation and the intercept is the limiting viscosity number [ η ] which is a characteristic parameter for the polymer in a particular solvent , k′ is a shape dependent factor called the Huggins constant and has values between 0.3 and 0.9 for randomly coiling vinyl polymers . |
| 16 | Although Wren 's celebrated dome was not , in fact molested , the high-rise guidelines focused solely upon picturesque views and not upon symbolism ; with the result that St Paul 's is no longer the crowning achievement of the city , but dwarfed to seeming like a pimple upon a buttock . |
| 17 | The letter started by saying that ‘ permission can not be given ’ but finished by calling for a site meeting ( a most peculiar letter really ) . |
| 18 | Loretta hesitated , but decided against getting into the Miss or Ms argument at this time of day . |