Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not once had any man ever made her so mad … or roused her to such passion , a tiny treacherous voice whispered inside her head . |
| 2 | ‘ Pork-pie ’ trilbies came into prominence ( again ) in the short-hair phase , faded & reasserted themselves in early smoothie . |
| 3 | Whether the coffin-maker produced a bespoke outer case or took one from existing stock is not known , though logic argues in favour of the latter . |
| 4 | Or rubbed it on each other , rather . |
| 5 | Having for years either aped Hollywood or presented us with cheery Cockney families braving the Blitz , a whole slew of films came along ( A Taste Of Honey , Saturday Night And Sunday Morning , etc ) that simultaneously both oddly dissected and glorified the northern working class experience of the early '60s . |
| 6 | Attendance , indeed , would not have cost Britain anything or compromised it in any way , since unlike the meeting called to consider the ECSC , participants at Messina were not required to accept the principle of supranationalism in advance . |
| 7 | And all of the family starting to watch the boy more closely as he sailed or forced himself through one limit after the other — a talent , it was beginning to seem , in every pocket . |
| 8 | The few that remained squatted out in the open or tucked themselves into tiny holes , often with their hindquarters clearly visible . |
| 9 | Uncle Hilbert , however , was only just sixty , very hale and hearty , still very much in practice as a solicitor , and Lewis could not imagine stepping into his shoes , nor did he in those days think it very nice to anticipate such things . |
| 10 | Love voted for exclusion and concerned himself with related topics . |
| 11 | But there are a few who are questioning the state of play , and who agree with Ben Whitaker ( 1979 : 312 ) when he urged ‘ that police thinking would profit if it more often came out of its shell and concerned itself with wider questions about the role of the police and human relations ’ . |
| 12 | He waved Rostov to an empty place at his side , and one of the aides drew Yuan and Alexei off and seated them among younger men . |
| 13 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 14 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 15 | The Gardeners ' Chronicle , reviewing the experiment , coined the name ‘ carpet bedding ’ for it , and recommended it for wider trial . |
| 16 | He particularly admired the beautiful white spikes of Itea and recommended it for late flowering , a quality which also applied to Clethra alnifolia . |
| 17 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 18 | In one such experiment , L. R. Donaldson and G. E. Allen took 72,000 young salmon at the ‘ fingerling ’ stage ( when they are about one year old ) from the Soos Creek Hatchery in Washington ( for locations see Figure 4.5 ) and divided them into two groups . |
| 19 | Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles . |
| 20 | So he 'd taken an upstairs room and divided it into six spaces , figuring he could charge £1.50 an hour for each of them and really coin it in . |
| 21 | Gaveston opened a door in the far wall and led them down some steps , dimly lit by torches fixed in iron brackets . |
| 22 | A man with a great bunch of keys joined us and led us down some steps to a doorway marked ‘ Luftschutzraum ’ . |
| 23 | He pulled the sheets aside and led us down some steps . |
| 24 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 25 | Madame raised her crackling voice from the large brown desk where she presided in the hall beyond , and asked them with unusual largesse if they would like some refreshment . |
| 26 | Then he built a double-skinned oak door and studded it with fat-headed iron nails from the nearby , long defunct Presteigne nail-making machine . |
| 27 | The woman was shocked when QC William Crawford put his hands on her waist and pecked her on both cheeks . |
| 28 | Gail said : ‘ I would love to do it again — I had a good time and met lots of interesting people including great athletes such as Britain 's Colin Jackson . |
| 29 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 30 | clenched , Benny lifted her foot above the instruments and lowered it with extreme care towards the handle of the scalpel . |