Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He saw no evidence that the German Socialists were either willing or able to restrain Prussian ambitions , nor did he place any faith in bourgeois internationalism . |
| 32 | But Kuzmitch alleged that Blake told him nothing about his work for MI6 nor did he give any indication that he was ardently pro-Communist . |
| 33 | The stark desire in his face threatened to take what strength she had left , nor did he make any attempt to hide the blatant response of his body to that consuming , passionate kiss , continuing to hold her so tightly that she could feel him with every part of her being , could still taste him inside her mouth . |
| 34 | Nor did he see much hope in the extension of parliamentary redress : ‘ any man who will look plain facts in the face will see in a moment that ministerial liability to the censure not in fact by Parliament , nor even by the House of Commons , but by the party majority who keep the Government in office , is a very feeble guarantee indeed against action which evades the authority of the law courts . ’ |
| 35 | Nor did he see another consequence , as his nephew Mauss confessed , shortly before going mad : ‘ how large modern societies which have more or less emerged from the Middle Ages in other respects , could be hypnotized as aborigines are by their dances and set in motion like a child 's carousel . |
| 36 | Nor did he raise one word about the history of his own great movement , about the fact that the working people of this country were urged to organise and to use their vote , through which they could change the policies under which they lived . |
| 37 | Here I must admit to a certain prejudice , in that much as I admired Chapman 's engineering brilliance — it was intuitive , radical , lateral-thinking and extremely sharp — I did not share , then or now , the belief that Colin was a constructor in the class of Enzo Ferrari , nor did I feel any faith in him as a man or a leader of men . |
| 38 | Nor did I bear any ill-will against my poor mother , though she had brought me up in error , innocently ignorant of what she was doing to my psyche . |
| 39 | Nor did I deplore English accents ; indeed that would be rather silly on the part of a professional linguist . |
| 40 | Nor did I notice this fact until we were well on our way home . ’ |
| 41 | He had neither remained discreetly silent , nor had he made any attempt to explain in public the reasons for his resignation . |
| 42 | He said that they had never forgotten her ; nor had he forgot ten Slavko , with whom he used to play . |
| 43 | Nor had he had any reason to complain about the security measures surrounding visitors to the base . |
| 44 | But Liz had never mentioned that Ross was so staggeringly good-looking ; nor had she made any reference to his devastating physical impact , although , to be fair , since both she and her cousin had only just finished taking their final college examinations , they 'd hardly been able to spend any time together before the wedding . |
| 45 | On this occasion I had neither heard nor seen the tigress , nor had I received any indication from bird or beast of her presence , and yet I knew , without any shadow of doubt , that she was lying up for me among the rocks . |
| 46 | I phoned Annie and asked her to cancel both performances today , and those on Monday and Tuesday . |
| 47 | With this in mind , we searched out one of Britain 's leading exponents of the Gothic bodice-ripper and asked her to inject some life into the first ascent of the Eiger 's north face . |
| 48 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 49 | Dad kissed me on the forehead and asked me to make another pot of tea and he sat down in his chair and smoked a quiet pipe of tobacco looking happier than he had for days . |
| 50 | He gave Sandison the address and asked him to do three things : check that Maidstone was all right , check that he still had his money and give him back his hat . |
| 51 | The United Kingdom pointed out that , by letter of 1 March 1983 , it informed the Commission of the problem created by the registration of Spanish vessels and of its intentions in that regard and asked it to put forward measures which would enable the problem to be resolved . |
| 52 | Some feeling like that which had attacked Jim Nesbitt last year and made him marry that girl in Durham , who , to his mind , had nothing going for her . |
| 53 | This speech although , shows Brutus to be very sincere and made him gain great admiration from the other conspirators . |
| 54 | But soon he discovered that politicians were more interesting than colonels so he arranged his soldiers as though they were the House of Commons and made them harangue each other . |
| 55 | If she did n't know better she 'd have said he 'd sabotaged her jeep and made it rain this way , just so he could enjoy some amusement at her expense ! |
| 56 | Eck , however , made his way to Rome and got himself appointed papal nuncio . |
| 57 | ‘ That was all rather spectacular , ’ he said , as we sat him up and got him to sip some rum . |
| 58 | He went in to his bank and got them to print new cheque-books , and instead of signing ‘ N.O. Russell ’ , he now signed ‘ Oliver Russell ’ . |
| 59 | The Harpers became worried when their daughters did not return to the family home in Cheltenham and reported them missing 24 hours later . |
| 60 | He also reminded the Association that the registration procedure would take time and invited it to nominate three north country shipowners to visit the London head office of the union , inspect all books and documents relating to membership and funds in order to satisfy themselves that it was a bona fide organisation . |