Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blushing ( with reason ) bride that drew the short straw was one Jo ; formerly of a record store in Chicago , who sold Ben a rare MBV bootleg , causing him to drop immediately to one knee . |
| 2 | As early as the 17th minute , Johnson sold McCarthy an extravagant dummy and hit a 20-yard shot that just cleared Digweed 's crossbar . |
| 3 | And so Maldita the malevolent became Fantasma the fantastic . |
| 4 | And one prisoner made mum a beautiful wooden ironing board ! |
| 5 | Merleau-Ponty , who met Nizan a few weeks later at Laurent Casanova 's villa in Porto , recalls that Nizan seemed resigned to the inevitability of war , but still confident in the belief that a tripartite alliance between France , Great Britain and the USSR was a necessary and inevitable prerequisite to the defeat of fascism . |
| 6 | , there like what I got mum , got mum a little basket . |
| 7 | Chapter 7 described some of the reasons which made Aplysia a strategic choice for researching the neurobiology of certain basic forms of memory formation . |
| 8 | Cos you got Nagden the other side , right opposite Nagden Chorlis |
| 9 | Recognition of his own lack of political experience , allied to a natural sympathy for the vitriolic , sectarian stance of the PCF made Nizan a willing recruit to party orthodoxy . |
| 10 | I owe them the worst : they all but destroyed me " ) , all this made Nizan an obvious candidate for a highly sectarian , aggressive , isolationist communist party . |
| 11 | However , as Ketamine lacks the euphoric and social properties that led o the widespread use of MDMA , the drug is likely to disappear as suddenly as it seems to have emerged . |
| 12 | The keen demand made patronage a double-edged weapon for the politician , who could find himself making enemies as readily as friends unless he proceeded with the utmost caution in everything he attempted . |
| 13 | He was treasurer of the RAS from 1831 to 1840 and became president a few years before his death in 1866 . |
| 14 | Who succeeded Herod the Great as ruler of Judaea ? |
| 15 | But it 's not ease of use which made WordPerfect the best seller . |
| 16 | Between the two of them , ABC and Scritti , with their widely disseminated interviews and much-parroted rhetoric , made rock an embarrassing relic , pensioned off the guitar , discredited the indie ethos , and made soul and funk de rigueur . |
| 17 | When we drew level the six of us did a protracted and violent Mexican wave , screaming at the tops of our lungs and behaving like the thugs we are . |
| 18 | Melanie and Victoria each had a fat , foil-wrapped tangerine from an aromatic , tissue-padded cardboard box , which was being unpacked when they went in together for potatoes and cooking apples ; and the greengrocer lady , nodding her gold earrings , promised Victoria a solid triangle of muscatel raisins if she was a good girl and if the muscatel raisins did not sell . |
| 19 | Jane found animals a great prop to sanity . |
| 20 | Juliet cast David a desperate glance . |
| 21 | The competition judges found Richard an easy winner . |
| 22 | Here he found Frank a great help as he had a fair knowledge of native North American trees and shrubs which , when checked with the big books , sounded as though they 'd do well in the peaty soil of Eire . |
| 23 | Frantic attempts to have my bags recalled came to nought and by half-past-one the Taiwan Timberland lookalikes hit deep slush at Torino after a salivating glimpse of Monte Bianco and blanketed environs a few feet to the left wingtip. 10 December must have been a great day for skiing . |
| 24 | This episode helped spur the revolutionary action taken against the king at the Westminster Parliament which opened a week later . |
| 25 | Thérèse found Léonie a fresh towel . |
| 26 | These criticisms apart , I found Pro-File an impressive computer whose potential versatility puts it , quite literally , in a class of its own . |
| 27 | The proposal for a community charge — or ‘ poll tax ’ — put forward by Nicholas Ridley in 1988 ran into furious local opposition , not least among the Scots who were to be the first to pay this new imposition , After all , freeborn Englishmen , led by Wat Tyler , had revolted against a poll tax as long ago as 1381 , and its bluntness and social inequity helped fuel a considerable popular protest , including in the Conservative shires . |
| 28 | Better-than-expected trade figures and increasing optimism that UK interest rates may start to fall from their current 15 per cent level , perhaps as early as next spring , helped fuel a 23.9 point rise in the index to 2,422.7 — within four points of the year 's high of 2,426 established just before the mini-crash in October and within hailing distance of the all-time high of 2,443.4 , established on July 16 , 1987 . |
| 29 | Together , IBM and Microsoft set the technical standards that helped fuel the explosive growth of personal computers in the 1980s : ‘ IBM-compatible ’ hardware and Microsoft 's DOS operating-system software , the basic program needed to run any computer . |
| 30 | And Phillips found Collimore a willing target then but Hill came back to deny it . |