Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decorative pendant lights which have chains or screwed brass rods can be supported in one of two ways . |
| 2 | Few apparently have plots behind , perhaps indicating that their occupants were dependent upon specialized activities or farmed land elsewhere . |
| 3 | Many others were involved in civil suits or attended court as spectators . |
| 4 | The complex series of financial switches , deceptions and double deals they concocted were far more extensive than any of the comparatively small scams that took place in the US . |
| 5 | I ran into a mass of nail signals and rusted pieces of iron , as well as the deep , solid signals that denoted lead . |
| 6 | In 1987 , ICI dominated the market with a 50% market share , the remaining 30% being taken by the other three firms who are subsidiaries of state-owned European manufacturers that acquired capacity in the UK market over the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 7 | Above all , service was voluntary and thus not liable to produce the grievances that accompanied selection for compulsory service . |
| 8 | She would survey him coldly with eyes that spat venom — Look at you with the gimp of an old scarecrow on you , they would say . |
| 9 | But Gabriel caught one glimpse of milky-white eyes that looked stone blind . |
| 10 | ‘ What you told me last night , Rachel , only convinced me that this marriage could work , ’ he said softly , and walked towards her with a look of intent in his blue eyes that sent panic rushing through her in hot waves . |
| 11 | So if I was to say to you that you can take him to the Justices if that 's your pleasure - " He turned and fixed Sir Gregory with eyes that radiated hatred from beneath fiery brows — " I do n't think you 'd like that , would you ? |
| 12 | It has pitilessly tom asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his ‘ natural superiors ’ , and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest , than callous ‘ cash payment ’ . |
| 13 | This may seem blindingly obvious to the newcomer to the discipline , but there were very good reasons for the disputes that took place . |
| 14 | In fact , it was reincarnation of sorts that helped lang 's career to rise in the late 1980s . |
| 15 | Panel B of Fig 3.2 shows the results for a further set of subjects that received aversion conditioning with saline as the CS before the test session . |
| 16 | It images that ordered side of his character , jokingly referred to by him in a letter to one of his sailors . |
| 17 | Conservative interests sought their own way of picturing the order of Nature , preferring images that admitted change only within the framework of a divinely preordained plan of creation . |
| 18 | Higher grade of histological malignancy ( p<0.01 ) and stage IV disease ( p<0.05 ) were the only variables that influenced mortality . |
| 19 | It was the twang in her vowels that commanded attention , people thought to themselves ‘ here 's someone from a Woody Allen movie . ’ |
| 20 | Seb saw little of the Wychwood gipsies during the hard winter months that followed Christmas . |
| 21 | Finally , he shouted to all dealers : " Ring all the clients that made money by coming into Helene of London on your advice . |
| 22 | In Scotland , these were schools that received part of their maintenance expenditure from the government . |
| 23 | Women heard about the different educational method used in the five phrenological schools that had beer founded by William Ellis in the 1850s . |
| 24 | On on on that Chair , I think erm , the protection of of the schools that went grant maintained before ninety-two , I think that will continue . |
| 25 | One of the waterwheels that drove machinery here was said to be the biggest in England . |
| 26 | It could be seen that the main structures , the twisted claws and the lumpy core , were themselves made up of accretions of smaller shapes that resembled nightmare exaggerations of arthropod and cephalopod forms . |
| 27 | A vegetable rinse disguised any grey hairs and gave shine to her new style . |
| 28 | Blake was then posted as an MI6 officer to the British Legation in Seoul , Korea where in 1950 he and other members of the legation staff were captured by the North Koreans and held prisoner until the spring of 1953 . |
| 29 | A fire was started on the ground floor , and , as it took hold , they ransacked offices and piled furniture and documents on a bonfire in the square outside . |
| 30 | The more active occupied some post offices and gave evidence to the House of Commons Select Committee , part of which is reproduced here ( Fleming , 1973 ) . |