Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith had a wide circle of friends who included the members of the locally influential Brigg family , Sir Isaac Holden , first MP for Keighley , John Bright , whose free-trade views he shared unreservedly , John Morley ( Viscount Morley of Blackburn ) , Sir Henry Roscoe , and , not least , Andrew Carnegie [ qq.v. ] , whom he considered the most remarkable man that he had ever met . |
| 2 | Although she felt a little guilty about letting him do it Sally found she quite liked the feel of his fingers stroking her flesh and teasing her nipples but when he tried to put his hand up her skirt beneath her scratchy petticoats she tried to stop him . |
| 3 | There is n't , you know , there is n't one thing is that we need to , with the short-term programmes we did n't do it work out the financial we need to go one stage further identify where the labour is |
| 4 | The high cost of housing in the north London area was proving a barrier to the recruitment of people with the rare technical skills it required . |
| 5 | The loss of such a man at most other clubs would have spelt disaster , but Chapman had foreseen the danger and the solid foundations he had built at the club enabled Arsenal to win another League Championship the following year . |
| 6 | With the right policies they believed it was possible to reduce inflation without incurring excessive levels of unemployment — to keep prices down and to sustain economic growth at the same time . |
| 7 | Within eight hours she had developed central abdominal pain , vomiting , and distension . |
| 8 | And for eight hours she devoted herself to sufferers and staff — smiling , chatting and listening . |
| 9 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 10 | I carried out tests and after eight hours he said he wanted to go home . |
| 11 | Walking towards the station , having promised to bring back with her all sorts of expensive food items Tina had requested from Selfridges ' Food Hall , Cecilia thought how much she liked living on her own and that at seventy-six she was too old to have Jasper and Bienvida running around her , fond of them as she was , not to mention Tina 's boyfriends and the odd hours she kept and her lying in bed till noon . |
| 12 | On the basis of these expressed views we hypothesized that attitudes towards the use of the booklet , with the attendant possibility of consequent change , would generally be more favourable in the northern than in the southern schools . |
| 13 | There could hardly be a better reminder of what they were up against : a regent in Scotland with whom they were now at war , but whose political skills they recognized , and whom they regarded with respect , acting for their sovereign in France who so far failed to rule that she got a foreign monarch to tell them off . |
| 14 | After eleven minutes it looked as though the changes would work , when John headed into the net from a centre by Hulme . |
| 15 | one hour and eleven minutes it said on there |
| 16 | Three Shadow Cabinet members gave TV interviews which repudiated economic policies they had agreed just five days earlier . |
| 17 | The Labour Party , dominated by the free trade philosophy of Philip Snowden , offered more of the same and was barely distinguishable from the Conservatives in the economic policies they offered — except for the Conservative Party 's references to ‘ safe-guarding of industry , ’ a code-phrase for selective protectionism . |
| 18 | But Baldwin weathered these political storms with some adroitness and found that the economic policies he favoured emerged , almost naturally , out of the collapse of the second Labour government in August 1931 . |
| 19 | Officially it remains in force , but an attack in the official press suggests hard-line ideologues want to criticise not only Mr Zhao but also the economic policies he helped to implement . |
| 20 | for anatomical reasons it proved impossible to cannulate the portal vein in four patients , two were referred for surgical intervention , and one patient has required further admission for transfusion because of bleeding from portal gastropathy . |
| 21 | Milton 's style , enabling the text to circulate in a politically charged climate , also works to enforce the distinctions between serious and popular writing , ironically helping to marginalise the writings of the very groups whose political agendas he shared . |
| 22 | Most Greek religious festivals occurred at or near full moon , but since they were associated with agricultural activities they had to take place at the appropriate times of the year . |
| 23 | ‘ Three of us were elected to Exhibitions at the same time , and I recall the maturity of his literary powers as contrasted with the callow essays we had to take up to Owen M. Edwards each week . ’ |
| 24 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 25 | Minton asked on arriving , proving this revelation with the thousand-franc notes he produced and which enabled his young friends each in turn to take Mimi or Fifi upstairs , Hunt having previously thought that these girls , whom they drew and took dancing , were secretaries . |
| 26 | Her diet was mostly handfuls of peanuts and crisps from private views she had attended . |
| 27 | Livermore said : ‘ For 70 minutes he showed tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 28 | For eight minutes she struggled unsuccessfully , changing her posture , hammer grip and the position of the nut , while Ricci rested nearby , apparently just keeping an absent-minded eye on her daughter . |
| 29 | Although the Dwarfs often tried to recapture Karak Eight Peaks they did not succeed until about the Imperial year 2470 , when Belegar established a fortified bridgehead in the old citadel . |
| 30 | He stayed close , hoping his warmth might help her , staring protectively out into the night as if the strange images he saw might try to harm her . |