Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spanish attempts to get themselves seeded ahead of England came to nothing . |
| 2 | Spanish attempts to get themselves seeded ahead of England came to nothing . |
| 3 | There is a strong incentive for local Labour parties to get everyone registered , even in safe urban seats , to avoid the seat disappearing altogether . |
| 4 | Left influence was sustained increasingly by events overseas , events over which most Labour supporters felt they had little control and which most of them probably saw as secondary to their still-lingering economic burdens . |
| 5 | Mr Brown said : ‘ Even those who are not Labour supporters recognise he grew in stature during the campaign . ’ |
| 6 | Caught off balance , Kate tried to keep her teetering emotions on an even keel as she strove to find the right words to explain what had happened in Jason 's office . |
| 7 | It may also have been the political considerations involved which led both the WJEC and the University of Wales to remain silent throughout the argument . |
| 8 | Repeated attempts to salvage her had been made up to 1840 , CH 1 . |
| 9 | On hearing of the atrocity Wilson thought it his duty to cancel the concert and to call together the 800 German seamen to explain what had happened and to share with them his horror at the deed . |
| 10 | Unfortunately our Mid-Term Wave was drawn from the 1986 British Social Attitudes Survey which asked no questions about television viewing or radio listening . |
| 11 | With only one hour and 30 minutes to go I squirted out a cheap-looking burning skull design , slapped on a logo and sent the damn thing off with only minutes to spare . |
| 12 | Endill was thrown to the ground and it took him a few minutes to realise what had happened . |
| 13 | On a modest few hours climbing we had sampled two new crags and climbed fine routes — a melange of anxiety , adventure and delight set against a backdrop of a wild , lonely coastline . |
| 14 | True , both the English and the Latin forms indicate he lived by the ash tree , but did they merely permit the taxatores to avoid confusing him with all the other Johns who lived in the same village ? |
| 15 | as new pro as old projects went we threw the old one away and we put a new leaf , loose-leaf sheet in . |
| 16 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 17 | Some Berliners want it preserved as a historic site , others fear that it could become the focus for neo-fascist demonstrators . |
| 18 | Some tenants to whom this happens every few months said they 'd been told that next time they 'd have to sort it out themselves . |
| 19 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 20 | The French Commandos firing their captured German mortar had probably run out of bombs . |
| 21 | The two French Commandos accompanying me steered me away from these scenes . |
| 22 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 23 | West German officials said they hoped similar arrangements could be made . |
| 24 | West German officials said they understood the trains would be sealed from the inside , and would take roundabout routes to evade jumpers-on . |
| 25 | She was the target of a bomb attack during her visit and French officials said they suspected Iraqi government agents . |
| 26 | By 1988 , the regime was forced to issue public statements denying it intended to destroy any more religious sites . |
| 27 | Half of them ran away starkers , and Simon himself had to row across the mere — some versions say he swam — in his nightshirt to get back inside the castle . |
| 28 | I have visited Southampton within the past few days to see what had become of one of the subsidiaries there Hampshire Bus . |
| 29 | Little over FFr 250,000 sold , and some dealers said it had been difficult to get collectors to concentrate on highly priced items , let along sign cheques , in the crowded conditions of the George V basement . |
| 30 | Mary 's ordeal included a 4am raid on her home by Scotland Yard and social workers convinced she had kidnapped Alex and smuggled him into England from Cyprus . |