Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The algorithm discussed here omits the start symbol . ) |
| 2 | The womenfolk noted down completed sections of the poem , and probably supplied the punctuation — we often feel that there is no reason why one sentence stops and another begins . |
| 3 | All men were the same , of course : they all liked to hold the floor while the womenfolk listened respectfully , but then you 'd think a Turk would be more interesting . |
| 4 | This , coupled with the notion of the magistrate as being responsible for enforcement of the judgments handed down by himself or his deputy , would surely suggest that he could give judgment for performance and enforce it specifically . |
| 5 | Outbluffed , the porter left quite cheerfully . |
| 6 | Indeed , the French envoy de Craon knew more , claiming the Prince had told him about Lady Eleanor 's death long before the porter had even reached Woodstock . |
| 7 | In their eyes the porter read only |
| 8 | He grinned , and the porter grinned back . |
| 9 | The porter stretched out his hand . |
| 10 | At the first opportunity Sarah went again to the Foundling Hospital , but she did n't approach by Guilford Street in case the porter came out of his lodge and recognized her . |
| 11 | The porter came back . |
| 12 | The porter walked ahead , Corbett and Ranulf strolled behind . |
| 13 | He was prepared for a battle if the porter turned out to be as difficult a customer as his wife . |
| 14 | Eventually the porter broke away from him . |
| 15 | The porter did not even pause in his stride . |
| 16 | The porter hurried across , chose a key and unlocked one of the doors . |
| 17 | The porter staggered drunkenly to his feet . |
| 18 | The porter nodded hesitantly . |
| 19 | The porter pulled out his knife , slashed the corpse , and then gave Ranulf 's arm a small nick on the wrist . |
| 20 | The porter drew back his hand and rubbed his mouth with the back of his wrist . |
| 21 | On the way upstairs , the porter remembered how he had struggled with all their luggage and had received no tip . |
| 22 | ‘ Ranulf , if the Prince knew before the porter arrived here , there can only be one explanation . |
| 23 | The porter moved restlessly from one foot to another . |
| 24 | ‘ These charges , ’ continued McClenaghan , ‘ will affect all groups of companies and will effectively increase the cost of the activities concerned by up to 17.5pc . |
| 25 | Fund accounting explicitly recognizes the political , economic and legal differences that exist between the services provided , and the activities carried on , within public sector organizations . |
| 26 | As a separate project , which will go ahead irrespective of progress of ‘ the Headington Strategy ’ , the Oxfordshire Health Authority intends to close Littlemore Hospital and to transfer the activities carried out there to a new site or into the community . |
| 27 | The activities singled out were to do with the use of ratepayers ' money to promote certain ideas . |
| 28 | The activities described so far have been concerned with periodically recurring factors relating to corporate planning and monitoring of results as part of functional management . |
| 29 | Bush hailed the verdict as a " victory against the drug lords " but Noriega 's chief attorney Frank Rubino , promising lengthy appeals , stated that it had been a political case ; the defence had effectively been prevented from treating it as such , and the judge had instructed the jury on April 3 not to consider any political aspects of the case . |
| 30 | The assistant recorder was right to find , as he did , that the allegations of agency set out in the defence had not been made out . |