Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd almost fallen asleep while Uncle Hamish had been droning on . |
| 2 | Booth did it in the last minute , slipping the ball home after Lee Richardson , an outstanding performer in the Aberdeen midfield , had struck the post with a clever shot made possible when Rhodes miskicked . |
| 3 | Neither is it in terms made defeasible if Ellen Nicholl should die before marriage . |
| 4 | The agreement became possible when Spain lifted its veto after agreement had been reached on setting up a fund to help the Community 's poorer members to pay for environmental protection measures . |
| 5 | The policyholders ' rights enshrined in the voting trust will remain intact until Aegon increases its take in the plc to the 80 per cent mark . |
| 6 | For , as before , the credit instruments soon became used as means of exchange . |
| 7 | They had no children and the baronetcy became extinct when Harland died on Christmas eve 1895 at his Irish home , Glengorne Hall , county Leitrim . |
| 8 | They had no children and the baronetcy became extinct when David died 9 October 1964 at Gordon Square , London . |
| 9 | I only got that cos kindergarten . |
| 10 | There is some comment has been made that a new settlement to the South or the South West of York would in some way undermine the urban regeneration erm of Leeds City Council , now I find this a surprising comment given that though people who are making that comment are also at the same time advocating much increased development allocations to , for example , Harrogate district , the main centre for which is erm , nearer than most conceivable new settlement locations to the South and South West of York . |
| 11 | Binding was assayed using intact COS cells expressing the cloned human NK-1R or its mutants . |
| 12 | Napoleon had fought one of his early battles at Toulon , but Rose-Marie had n't realised this until Catriona pointed it out . |
| 13 | The election date announcement on April 12 included confirmation of postponement to an unspecified later date , for security reasons , of polling in Punjab ( where president 's rule was formally extended on March 13 for a further six months — see above for need to pass constitutional amendment allowing this before Parliament was dissolved ) , in Assam , where president 's rule was also extended on March 13 for a further six months from the end of May , and in Jammu and Kashmir , president 's rule there having been extended for six more months from March 3 , as approved by Parliament on Feb. 27 . |
| 14 | Scrum-half Paul Bishop , their £50,000 signing from St Helens , scored one try and made another while Gary Divorty , another close-season capture , also got a try striding through some weak Wakefield tackling . |
| 15 | A proper footpath could remedy this because users would be more likely to keep to it . |
| 16 | ‘ I was shaken rigid when Naylor opened your door to me last night . ’ |
| 17 | Chess Club An alternative meeting night is requested as the noise from activities in the hall is proving inconvenient when matches are in progress . |
| 18 | Chess Club An alternative meeting night is requested as the noise from activities in the hall is proving inconvenient when matches are in progress . |
| 19 | They are fleetingly referred to in ancient Assyrian and Babylonian stelae and became popular as servants — and as passive sexual playthings — in the degenerate days of the later Roman Empire . |
| 20 | Using this as collateral the partners secured and bought the stock for Hyndland Street 's Clan Skates . |
| 21 | Using this as radius , circular arcs are drawn from the apex through the other corners of the triangle to produce the form of a fish . |
| 22 | In 1901 the question of the Sovereign 's Accession Declaration and Coronation Oath became public when Edward VII , with his High Church views , let it be known that he thoroughly detested the clauses denouncing the Mass . |
| 23 | As Butler and Stokes point out , " It is difficult not to see this as evidence of the acceptance of the view that British society is divided into two primary classes . |
| 24 | Things started to go wrong when Stuart became increasingly dissatisfied at work . |
| 25 | A person with no connection with the occult can occasionally experience this when cat-napping during the day . |
| 26 | Apart from the appointment of Edward Kirk to the post of Principal at Leeds in 1881 it was to be almost 100 years before deaf people once again became acceptable as teachers of deaf children . |
| 27 | To begin with , your mother should n't oversympathise with her when you go out , as the dog will regard this as approval of her nervous behaviour . |
| 28 | The president said he had decided to go public because criticism and disbelief from some countries and influential commentators had threatened the republic 's commercial nuclear programme . |
| 29 | This became clear after parents began to ring Machester 's Picadilly Radio in protest over the song 's condemnation of their local school system . |
| 30 | The keel stayed solid for a few moments , then clouded and became clear as glass . |