Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crackly voice on the other end sounded deeply grateful . |
| 2 | Support for the aged warrior extended as far north as Angouleme and seemed to present a serious threat to Frankish rule in Aquitaine . |
| 3 | Opinion polls in June 1991 suggested that support for the National Party had fallen to 35 per cent , while that for the Labour Party had risen to 42 per cent . |
| 4 | Support for the Jacobite cause grew further as a result of the insensitive way the new regime in England began to govern Scotland . |
| 5 | Although labour organizations were illegal , protest from the working class grew ominously from the mid 1880s . |
| 6 | Before I reveal to the distinguished company gathered here this morning some of Councillor good works , I feel it incumbent upon me and appropriate to pay tribute to Councillor , our Lord Mayor , who died in office in April and I offer my sincere condolences to Mrs from my party and the Council . |
| 7 | Then after the the well there 's er the library as they called it was lined with books leather bound books great big kidney shaped oak table and beautiful chairs there and we used it as the office you know for the principal keeper did his returns and all the rest of it there . |
| 8 | The terms ‘ Balanced ’ and ‘ Unbalanced ’ refer to the earthing method used . |
| 9 | Talk about the multi-million-dollar set went like this : |
| 10 | Talk in the Red Lion became increasingly spirited as the season wore on , and the rumours passed from farm cottage to town hovel . |
| 11 | It would take the easy way and go for the baited foot laid out for it … |
| 12 | The greengrocer was large , round and taciturn with a white apron wrapped completely around his waist like a sheet which brushed the floor . |
| 13 | Thus NEP as a monetary phenomenon took time to seep slowly through the various levels of society , just as pistoles and écus had competed with the franc in the French provinces after that other great revolution . |
| 14 | I think we live with the local authority set up as we have it . |
| 15 | ( I quote from a written complaint received . ) |
| 16 | Defeat in the final second had , in all probability , pushed the Courage title back into the grasp of Bath , England 's leading club . |
| 17 | Anger on a slow fuse began to build . |
| 18 | I 'm surprised that er call to the local councillor did n't work . |
| 19 | Waqar at the other end continued to fling down roundarm yorkers , until tea , when both sides drew breath . |
| 20 | The small size of the private-rented sector and the difficulties which council house tenants face in moving between local authority areas have for a long time constituted major barriers to long distance migration by lower-income workers ( Robertson , 1979 ; Hughes and McCormick , 1981 ; OPCS , 1983 ; Hamnett , 1984 ) . |
| 21 | I have for a long time had on file one respected artist 's offer to arrange an exhibition of a hundred of his works , and then to hand them straight over as a gift to the Russian Cultural Foundation . |
| 22 | As was noted in Chapter 4 , local education authorities have for a long time had a duty to provide special education for handicapped children . |
| 23 | This is not meant to be a criticism of the many carp bait firms which have for a long time sold baits which catch carp . |
| 24 | Libraries and librarians have for a long time sought to play a role in the educational development of young children in the formative and primary years , particularly in the simple stimulation of the reading habit . |
| 25 | The desire or need for a fresh start arose either because , as in the United States , some neighbouring communities wished to unite together under a new government ; or because , as in Austria or Hungary or Czechoslovakia after 1918 , communities had been released from an Empire as the result of a war and were now free to govern themselves ; or because , as in France in 1789 or the U.S.S.R. in 1917 , a revolution had made a break with the past and a new form of government on new principles was desired ; or because , as in Germany after 1918 or in France in 1875 or in 1946 , defeat in war had broken the continuity of government and a fresh start was needed after the war . |
| 26 | Within this mass , the smaller workers have in a similar fashion created chambers in which the pupae hang . |
| 27 | It is precisely because market forces have in the long run caught up with the operation of the CAP , as they inevitably would , that we are in such trouble . |
| 28 | Experience in the Russo-Japanese War had led to an understanding of modern warfare : the army was equipped with machine-guns and howitzers and knew how to use trench systems and barbed wire to effect . |
| 29 | ( 3 ) After the expiration of that period those shares which are declined or deemed to be declined shall be offered in the proportion aforesaid to the persons who have within the said period accepted all the shares offered to them . |
| 30 | ( 3 ) After the expiration of that period those shares which are declined or deemed to be declined shall be offered in the proportion aforesaid to the persons who have within the said period accepted all the shares offered to them . |