Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week Scottish Secretary Ian Lang announced spending on social work projects would be £22.8 million next year , with provisional figures of £23 million for 194–5 and 1995–6 . |
| 2 | Though its original statute forbad lending to foreign-controlled firms , a 1986 policy statement softened this policy by implying inclusion of local firms with minority shares held by multinationals ( Brazilian Government , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's about time you and Mummy stopped going to that dreary old Richardson in the High Street and switched to Mr Vigo . ’ |
| 4 | When rival gangs began fighting for black market spoils , the ethnic war which has engulfed Sarajevo and Bosnia for 10 months spilled over into Stup . |
| 5 | BUT months spent trekking through Himalayan monasteries and his love of Brigflatts ( a rural Quaker meeting house near Sedbergh ) have rubbed off on him . |
| 6 | All the animals began shouting at poor Anabelle . |
| 7 | He was walking with his mum in Chicago when two men in a car began firing at three others . |
| 8 | With candlelight the day could be stretched from 5 a.m to 7 p.m. in winter , and in summer daylight permitted working from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m . |
| 9 | All the trucks and cars started crashing into one another , too . |
| 10 | When Kylie went shopping for more additions to her by now Imelda Marcos scale wardrobe in one of London 's stores , the result was inevitable . |
| 11 | Small talk kept erupting into some new accusation or burst of crying from Jacqui . |
| 12 | He paused , strangely shrunken , while Donald repeated his words , to fly round the walls of the castle to the women watching from the cliffs and battlements , and to the window where Hector lay staring into multicoloured darkness , wishing the blade had struck harder . |
| 13 | The Grand Union people , already very short of money , decided that there was little point at present in going for the wide gauge , especially as it was ( conveniently ) reported that traders preferred loading into narrow boats . |
| 14 | All were within a 500-mile radius of Whaddon , and many misguided soccer fans preferred travelling to those grounds rather than succumb to the semi-pro subtleties on show at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 15 | The commission 's decision to allocate £1 million of its budget for hospital and community health services to support developments in primary care illustrates the imaginative approach now being adopted by managers who have broken free of a mind set concentrating on acute hospital services and have started to use their resources to respond to need and not demand . |
| 16 | They agreed that the technical equipment used in operations must influence the type of work organisation for employees : in the case of coal mining , the new cutting equipment and conveyor belts made working in small groups no longer practicable . |
| 17 | Dutch police have the power to confiscate a vehicle found speeding at 70 kilometres per hour more than the legal level . |
| 18 | Herbert 's work involved travelling to various parts of Africa , Europe and the Middle East , and although theoretically based in Johannesburg , he told an interviewer that he had never spent more than six weeks continuously in his office there . |
| 19 | A worry-gut with too many improbable questions but also — so far as most of the forty others in his class were concerned — shamefully many of the right answers when the tough old lady with tightly bobbed hair and long blackboard pointer came stalking in squeaky lace-up boots up the narrow aisles between the desks . |
| 20 | The auction was successful with bids received amounting to 2.28 times the amount of stock on offer and the following day the Bank announced the issue of three new tranchettes of tap stock . |
| 21 | And then ( as he stood and stared through the window at the magazine ) Boy imagined sleeping with these men , actually sleeping , sharing a bed with them for the night . |
| 22 | Their clothes felt damp , corsets defied fastening by chilling fingers , socks and stockings were recalcitrant , the bathing attendant was shouting impatiently . |
| 23 | Poland 's exports to the Soviet Union had fallen sharply since the two countries began trading in hard currency in January . |
| 24 | Poland and the Russian Federation signed a trade agreement on Sept. 4 to bridge the gap caused by a sharp fall in exports to the Soviet Union , formerly Poland 's main customer until the two countries began trading in hard currency in January and the Soviet side was unable to pay for most of its purchases . |
| 25 | Dickinson was the last to empty his tins , and so he was the top plane when bits of wood began spitting in all directions . |
| 26 | Similar styles shoes started appearing with wooden soles , then with higher heels and eventually into platforms ( mid to late '72 ) . |
| 27 | A researcher sent to report back to the Jane Goodall Institute kept hearing of captive chimps under sentence of death unless a place was found for them . |
| 28 | Niki went fishing for another drive , and thought he had one at Renault ; but the big-manufacturer politics of that season and Gerard Larrousse 's increasing weakness therein , sabotaged that : Niki was kept dangling , offered the drive and then dropped . |
| 29 | Hugh lay thinking about this . |
| 30 | Nigel liked looking at glossy magazines . |