Example sentences of "[noun pl] [noun] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During these discussions MacDonald had nothing to contribute . |
| 2 | Most times Fernando joined her , this morning he had n't . |
| 3 | For 20 minutes Middlesbrough ran us ragged . |
| 4 | You 've got a number of things here , you would take off the outer layer and you would bring it close to your body , if you , if you just pick it up with lots of layers around it you 're insulating it are n't you , to keep it cold , so you cuddle it close to your body right , and you remove outer layers of cloths Melanie said something about room temperature , right you raise the room temperature , okay ? |
| 5 | Mr Chambers ' name and virtues had been the main topic of her mother 's conversation for the last two months , and no matter how many times Honor expressed her dislike of the man , Flora continued to press the subject . |
| 6 | Between dives Trent considered his charter party . |
| 7 | Dec. 20 : in a statement to the Congress of People 's Deputies Shevardnadze announced his resignation as Soviet Foreign Minister , warning of a drift to a new dictatorship and the danger of conservative forces bringing the policies of glasnost and perestroika to an end [ see p. 37903 ] . |
| 8 | UAPT and , particularly , CD were in favour of this , and lenders would not object ; indeed , the Finance Houses Association told us that some of their members already include this information on proposal forms . |
| 9 | A member of the Finance Houses Association put it to us that the development of consumer credit might be seen as having three phases : first , loans granted to buy tangible assets ; secondly , loans for intangibles such as holidays ; and finally , loans simply as loans . |
| 10 | IN THESE days when money is scarce for most rugby clubs Morley earned themselves £1,500 on the toss of a coin over the weekend . |
| 11 | However , their budgets are small : the 1988 Action for Cities programme granted them £20 million . |
| 12 | Electrical giants Dixons sacked them for ‘ gross misconduct ’ . |
| 13 | In the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries Wainfleet had its fair share of smuggling activity . |
| 14 | The immediate result of George 's absence was the loss of his advice regarding the wine list , about which Olive knew little , and after three months Marie found it necessary to engage a specialist wine waiter . |
| 15 | But Malcolm Morley , although born in England , is an American painter , and in many respects Hockney became one in the 1960s though he 's now living with the French masters in a Côte d'Azur of his own imagining . |
| 16 | Jack Dromey of Brent Trades Council told me : Willesden and Stonebridge ( in NW London ) used to be known in the 30s as Red Willesden and Red Stonebridge . |
| 17 | Oh organized yes , through the through the trades council no doubt about it , trades council organized it . |
| 18 | Indeed , even when the Schools Council diverted its attention to the whole curriculum , in contrast to its preoccupation with individual areas or aspects , it maintained its non-recommendatory stance . |
| 19 | In the same year that the Library Association produced its Supplement and the Schools Council published my own Working Paper 43 , the School Library Association published its Libraries in secondary schools ( Morris et at . |
| 20 | KENT Opera went into liquidation yesterday , unable to continue after the Arts Council withdrew its £750,000 grant . |
| 21 | Tim Renton , Minister for the Arts , has caused a storm by calling into question one of the main dogmas of British arts administration , the so-called arm's-length principle ‘ government funding through semi-independent institutions ’ , as Lord Keynes , the architect of the Arts Council put it in 1945 . |
| 22 | The Arts Council found its ability to provide patronage made more selective — perhaps rightly so , though the effects proved a serious blow to many theatres and galleries . |
| 23 | For three months Jeanne kept her love for Modigliani a secret from her family , went to Mass and appeared gentle and dutiful , if somewhat abstracted . |
| 24 | The centre of activity , of the universe , was Bletchley Park , north of London , where signals intelligence had something big . |
| 25 | As one expressive arts teacher put it : |
| 26 | As she looked into his concerned eyes Carrie saw something else . |
| 27 | She threw an agonised , reproachful look at Ruth and seemed about to run out of the room , but with three words Ernest stopped her . |
| 28 | Despite soldiering on for three days she finally admitted defeat when frostbite of the labia majora forced her to abandon the job . |
| 29 | The committee of the Canine Supporters Charity crossed their fingers tightly when they took the brave step of hiring the Wembley Exhibition Centre . |
| 30 | But his nightmare start to the season ended in a broken jaw as double winners Bath started their Courage League defence with a 22-6 win . |