Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor had he any direct connection with any terrorist organisation . ’ |
| 2 | I was not a trained publicity man , nor had I any professional competence in publicity media , and I felt the need of competent advice from someone expert in this field . |
| 3 | Had he been alive he would doubtless have been delighted at the response of the leading conservative theatre critic to What the Butler Saw ( 1969 ) : ‘ Orton 's terrible obsession with perversion , which is regarded as having brought his life to an end and choked his very high talent , poisons the atmosphere of the play . |
| 4 | And made it more black letter . |
| 5 | Robyn banged her hand on to the steering-wheel , cursing violently as she did so , and then slumped despondently with her head on her arms for a moment and lived her only recurring nightmare — that one day she would be stranded in some unknown place in the pouring rain in this damned broken-down wreck of a jeep with no one to help her . |
| 6 | ‘ I must indeed apologize for my … irritation , ’ he said and produced his most disarming smile . |
| 7 | The man rewrote a radio play for him and got him early professional experience . |
| 8 | It was on Stephen Leacock 's advice that I tried my hand at writing humour and found it very arduous work ; writing ordinary prose was hard enough , but trying to make it funny was even harder . |
| 9 | The good cut made his shoulders look their proper width and reduced his generally plump look . |
| 10 | The PCI repudiated its previous adherence to Lenin 's insurrectionary road to socialism , declared its permanent attachment to multi-party politics and complete acceptance of liberal constitutional rules , and renounced its hitherto unswerving support for Soviet foreign policy . |
| 11 | Odd-Knut rolled a thin cigarette and poured himself yet another coffee . |
| 12 | She crept into the bedroom and retrieved her already packed suitcase from under her bed . |
| 13 | Elinor narrowed her eyes and swung her straight black hair out behind her like a scarf . |
| 14 | He turned to Amaryllis and delivered his most accomplished smile . |
| 15 | For two years the Italians and Germans launched air raids , blockaded the island to the verge of starvation , and kept it under constant threat of invasion . |
| 16 | And little , twinkly Claus Korth , captain of U.93 with a crew of forty-four , described poetically how he picked up the forty-nine survivors of a Bismarck supply ship , the Belchen , and brought his heavily overloaded boat back to France . |
| 17 | The GCC states were inevitably affected by this and generated one particularly interesting case . |
| 18 | The girl flashed us a brilliant smile and took her brightly uniformed efficiency off to deal with another customer , a big American with a broad-brimmed stetson shading his leathery features . |
| 19 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
| 20 | The robin hopped on to an old climbing plant on the wall , and sang his most beautiful song . |
| 21 | Maggie was filled with resentment about the count and chose her most severe outfit just to show him what she thought of his beliefs . |
| 22 | Caroline returned , ‘ Everything all right ? ’ and offered them both more wine . |
| 23 | County and district councillors came along and after searching questions , agreed with our plan wholeheartedly and gave us very good advice . |
| 24 | I think the US is in trouble and gave us too much credit . |
| 25 | She licked the girl 's mouth , tasting strawberry lipstick , and flicked her lightly freckled cheerleader 's nose with the pointed end of her tongue . |
| 26 | It carried accounts of the debates in the British Parliament as well as reports on local cricket matches , and leavened its rather serious tone with Victorian English jokes . |
| 27 | Bunny joined me at the bar and bought us both another drink . |
| 28 | Three times they lowered themselves to the ground in response to commands chanted by the minister of rites and all the time the musicians and singers banged gongs and drums and continued their strangely discordant chanting . |
| 29 | Vanessa yawned , and patted her wide open mouth rudely . |
| 30 | Eric Newton in The Sunday Times regretted Minton 's ‘ entirely cerebral ’ approach , but liked his more direct wash drawings of river scenes . |