Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 2 | He walked around the stage , perfecting his stunts , or just slept in his dressing-room or paced the empty corridors . |
| 3 | And er when it come to a vote to try and get anything passed or changed the wee branches were solid voting for the national agreement . |
| 4 | Wine was decanted against the flame of a candle , and pouring would be stopped as soon as the wine started to get cloudy or showed the first signs of deposit . |
| 5 | Turning now to those carers who said in their first interview that they wanted their relative to remain at home , one would expect that those in the action sample would be more likely to have retained that preference than those in the control sample ( assuming that the project has provided extra home care when needed and therefore indirectly or directly assisted or relieved the principal carers ) . |
| 6 | No one impeded or questioned the two fugitives . |
| 7 | Or did the partial substitutions usually fail causing dead-ends in the lattice ? |
| 8 | Or did the white men vanish from the tribe 's memory as completely as the tribe vanished for the white man ? |
| 9 | The internal contradictions of Polish society were revealed by external invasion , and — particularly in Pomerania and Danzig — people who felt themselves to be marginal to Polish life either succumbed slowly and reluctantly or embraced the new identities on offer with enthusiasm . |
| 10 | These various factors combined to ensure that the local elite ( even if they were capable of considering it ) would not attempt to kill the goose ‘ that laid the golden eggs ’ . |
| 11 | But , knowing that a great war would kill the goose that laid the golden eggs , the bankers could probably be relied upon to use their enormous influence to prevent it : |
| 12 | Dissident chairmen were , however , frequently able to gain the support of other chairmen on specific issues of Area Board independence , and it was these issues that became the substantive ones between the central regime and the Boards . |
| 13 | Firms that avoided the worst excesses of the wheeling-dealing 1980s are making steady profits , and much of the loss was due to expensive restructuring at Shearson Lehman ( which spent $640m ) and Prudential-Bache ( $370m ) . |
| 14 | The feel of them brought him back into the attic room , to the confusion that made a few words on a piece of paper into a lifeline . |
| 15 | The new calendar , now known as the ‘ Young-Avestan calendar ’ appears to have been adopted in the reign of Cambyses ' great successor Darius I. The most thorough and plausible investigation of the date of its introduction is that made a few years ago by the distinguished historian of ancient astronomy the late Willy Hartner of Frankfurt University . |
| 16 | Agricultural prosperity rested on secure tenures that made the substantial farmers feel themselves to be full proprietors . |
| 17 | Miss Murdock , who appears to have had a sense of humour , expressed her high regard for the autochrome process , the delights of which she said , were mainly due to the high number of failures that made the occasional successes all the more thrilling . |
| 18 | If redundancy was the leading form of change to 1981 , it was gains in productivity that made the greatest inroads from then . |
| 19 | This is the pencil that his kindergarten teacher possessed ; the pencil that made the blue ticks and the red crosses in the register ; the pencil that he wept for , that his mother went all over town to find , and failed to find , because they were all gone , or not made any more , or kept for teachers , or only imagined ; the pencil which he knew would make him happy , if only he possessed it , for evermore . |
| 20 | The gait of the creatures that made the four sets of trails has been described in detail , two weeks ago , at a conference in Berkeley , California . |
| 21 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 22 | Those who listened to him critically were dismayed he could not see that it was not disapproval by pacifists , intellectuals or even cowards that made the Nazi assaults an atrocity . |
| 23 | Now a group of about 4,000 former residents of the institutions in the 1950s and 1960s has filed a lawsuit against seven religious orders that operated a dozen orphanages or mental hospitals , accusing them of physical , sexual and psychological abuse and seeks damages of almost £1 billion . |
| 24 | Their campaign reflected the uncertainties and weakness that led the Financial Times to back Labour . |
| 25 | the light that led The Holy Elders with the gift of myrrh . |
| 26 | There was only one drawback and that concerned the weaker kittens that sometimes found themselves at the bottom of a pile of bodies and unable to breathe . |
| 27 | Held , allowing the appeal , that in determining the place in which the gross profit from a transaction arose or from which it derived the proper approach was to ascertain the operations that produced the relevant profits and where they took place ; that the relevant business of the taxpayer , the exploitation of film rights exercisable outside Hong Kong , did not amount to the provision of a service or the exploitation of property rights overseas , but was carried on in Hong Kong , and in the absence of any financial interest in the subsequent exercise of the rights , the fact that they were exercisable only overseas was irrelevant ; and that , therefore , the taxpayer 's profits from granting sub-licenses during the relevant years of assessment had arisen in or derived from Hong Kong , and under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance the taxpayer was liable to profits tax thereon ( post , pp. 444G–H , 445E , G–H , 446E–G ) . |
| 28 | He said he was with a US Army unit that met the Soviet soldiers who had captured the German fuhrer 's bunker in April 1945 . |
| 29 | I was interested too that got the new phonebooks |
| 30 | Men could and did wear their hair to the shoulders , even wore flowers in it and beads round their necks — that got the pink gins spluttering . |