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 | 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 ? |
| 12 | as new pro as old projects went we threw the old one away and we put a new leaf , loose-leaf sheet in . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The French Commandos firing their captured German mortar had probably run out of bombs . |
| 15 | The two French Commandos accompanying me steered me away from these scenes . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | West German officials said they hoped similar arrangements could be made . |
| 18 | West German officials said they understood the trains would be sealed from the inside , and would take roundabout routes to evade jumpers-on . |
| 19 | She was the target of a bomb attack during her visit and French officials said they suspected Iraqi government agents . |
| 20 | By 1988 , the regime was forced to issue public statements denying it intended to destroy any more religious sites . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Informed sources say they started shopping it around last week through Goldman Sachs . |
| 23 | In a wide-ranging foreign affairs debate he reaffirmed the Government 's ‘ total rejection of the Khmer Rouge ’ and announced humanitarian aid for Cambodia and a visit by British officials to Phnom Penh . |
| 24 | The former double Durham County Champion from Whickham posted a one under par 72 in wild and windy conditions to finish one shot clear of Arcot 's Graham Pickup . |
| 25 | ‘ When I was there I was given a copy of a US Senate foreign relations report which alleged that a large number of British POWs from the Second World War had disappeared in Soviet hands , and that a number of United Nations troops had been taken by the Soviets from the Chinese during the Korean War and never returned . |
| 26 | In a statement , British Airways said it believed that the finance for the deal would be raised in the near future , but that its £320m fund raising issue would go ahead regardless . |
| 27 | Later , British Airways said it regretted the breakdown of talks . |
| 28 | Her thoughts were carefully filtered through her father 's public relations machine which ensured she was never interviewed . |
| 29 | Incidentally , the Scottish players thought he got it right both times in that Gary Armstrong had not scored , but Turnbull had . |
| 30 | French police said they had arrested her stepson , 27-year-old Trevor Keith Hollett , who had allegedly confessed to the murder . |