Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 2 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 3 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 4 | Indeed , the specification of grades of untitled gentlemen of £40 or more amounted to an admission that the qualification was obsolete , that this level of income was totally inadequate to support the ‘ port and charge ’ of the dignity of knighthood . |
| 5 | For many that was Buncrana or Fahan in County Donegal where they surfed , skiied , took boat trips or just lay in the sun . |
| 6 | The number of those out of work for six months or more rose by 10,700 ( 8.8 per cent ) from 122,200 to 132,900 , again the lowest in Britain . |
| 7 | She knew at that moment that she wanted to injure every penis that ever came into her hand . |
| 8 | Local private firms had built up a skilled work force that eventually drew in foreign multinationals on terms acceptable to the government . |
| 9 | The youth could n't have been an inch over five feet three , skinny with dark curly hair and flashing eyes that never seemed to be still , as if he were always on the lookout for trouble . |
| 10 | The best topographic candidates for volcanic activity of Mercury are a handful of small rimless craters and certain ridges that could be solidified lava that once rose from fissures . |
| 11 | On the first leg of the flight to Tehran , courtesy of one of the aircraft that also helped with contra resupply , North told Cave ‘ This is Democracy Airlines , ’ and laughed ; Cave had no notion what he meant . |
| 12 | The National War Labor Board was set up in 1942 to settle the disputes that inevitably rose in a more directed economy . |
| 13 | But when I said as much to Mala , as a joke to ease the tension that still showed in her eyes , she merely called me an unrepeatable name and stalked away to her cabin again . |
| 14 | It was by no means a simple set of feelings : many longed for the straightforward solutions that apparently lay in the golden-age reign of the Emperor Charlemagne when unity , conquest and expansion to the east had surely indicated racial superiority . |
| 15 | Analysis of these omissions from the W7 showed that about a quarter were simply inflexions of words that already existed in the dictionary . |
| 16 | He was the finest poet that ever wrote in the English language . |
| 17 | Instantly , the reaching figure became a puppet , jerking backwards in a pirouette that suddenly collapsed with the abrupt finality of cut strings . |
| 18 | The gesture was both intimate and impersonal and it reminded her of Maggie 's physical friendship that never grew into love . |
| 19 | One entry , elided with others in the published journals under the date 14 August 1948 , was in fact written on 31 October 1948 and in its original form provides far greater insight into the animosity that now existed between the two friends . |
| 20 | They include the Duchess of Windsor 's inscribed gold Cartier bracelet and a diamond and turquoise turtle brooch that once belonged to the late American artist Andy Warhol . |
| 21 | Just ten or fifteen minutes of it now would see him right , a short trip out through the islets and mudbanks where you could let the boat drift , lean over the stern and watch the inner life of the dirty green water , the shreds of seaweed and small branches and other shapes that sometimes proved to be alive , or focus on the surface , a depthless sheet of scum on which the pearly light shimmered in continual shifting patterns , or even look up to see a huge modern building , several storeys high , going for a stroll along a neighbouring island , the superstructure of a freighter putting out to sea along the deep-water channel … |
| 22 | Research stressed political and administrative factors in isolation and never succeeded in analysing the way local politics are linked to wider social and economic processes . |
| 23 | Notes from this meeting were kept by Colonel Hossbach and later fell into Allied hands . |
| 24 | Our camera … got the closest shave and nearly crashed in the middle of the forest … |
| 25 | In spite of his gift to the sport , Keller was anxious not to abuse his status as President and never went to a rowing event unless invited . |
| 26 | A third point was that Crown counsel at the trial , Mr. Pantry , improperly tried to cross-examine the defendant and also commented to the jury on the defendant 's exercise of the right to silence and that the trial judge was wrong not to correct him . |
| 27 | This was not uncommon in some mining districts and even existed in the craft trade of hat making , the artisans who took in their wives to pick the coarse hairs from their material saving the 6 to 9s ( 30-45p ) a week which they would otherwise have had to pay from their wage . |
| 28 | Tsar Simeon II , who had succeeded to the throne in 1943 at the age of seven , had been forced into exile by the 1946 referendum result and currently lived in Madrid . |
| 29 | this was supposed to be celebrated after thirty years of rule and then tended to be held at more frequent intervals . |
| 30 | According to Houghton 's controller , Crabb had been brought on board the cruiser in a state of collapse from oxygen poisoning and later died in the sick-bay . |