Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The broomstick dipped and then dived towards a dark wood of tall elms and flew over the tops . |
| 2 | Robbie averted her eyes from those muscular legs and looked at him consideringly . |
| 3 | They , on the contrary , the police authority have a working party which had four very long and very detailed meetings and went through their budget line by line by line , and these are the figures they came up with . |
| 4 | Tessa Wilson qualified in 1946 for the Women Housing Managers ' Certificate of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and worked in Housing Departments in London until 1959 , always finding interest in the people , the buildings and the River Thames in all its moods . |
| 5 | Old subjects were recruited from local senior citizens ' social clubs and defined as those greater than 65 years of age . |
| 6 | The stone curlew was at one time classified in close proximity to the Otididae on the Systematic List of British Birds and declared to be an Otididae-oddity : a close relation of the bustard . |
| 7 | Slamming the tankard back on the oak table , he smacked his wet lips and sucked at his beard . |
| 8 | In 1954 one was washed ashore in Norway that measured 9 metres from the end of its body to the tip of its outstretched tentacles and weighed about a ton . |
| 9 | People were gazing at the still smoking ruins and chalked on a blackboard on the pavement was , ‘ Employees meeting at Victoria Hall , Rollestone Street tonight at 6 o'clock . ’ |
| 10 | Moncef Triki is President of the Tunis office of the Association for the Defence of Human Rights and Public Liberties and worked with families of Islamic detainees investigating details of their arrest and detention . |
| 11 | Originally from Birmingham , he developed a love affair with the Scottish mountains and moved to Edinburgh in 1961 . |
| 12 | The prince scraped up the money they had set aside to repair the roof again and Anna went off to India with some English acquaintances and stayed with the viceroy and came back with a ruby . |
| 13 | My own research with young people in Edinburgh and Lothian Region has placed such problems squarely in the context of adult violence to children in public places and pointed to the frequency with which young people go around in gangs or carry weapons usually as a response — however ill-judged — to crimes they suffer . |
| 14 | The discovery of mirror-image patterns of magnetic field reversal in rocks on the seabed off Iceland by Vine & Matthews reported in Nature in 1963 , combined with the earlier theoretical ideas and led to the concept of sea-floor spreading . |
| 15 | Cabbages ( part of the Wilderness had been a vegetable patch ) armed themselves with woody bark ; rhubarb threw off weak elastic branches ; roses shed superfluous petals and muscled into the potato patch ; vegetables , weeds and shrubs increased their ranks or sizes while snowdrifts or perennial flowers transformed the land . |
| 16 | Police evacuated nearby buildings and cordoned off the area while they defused the bomb . |
| 17 | Former US President Jimmy Carter and David Peterson , former Premier of the Province of Ontario , Canada , led an international team of 100 foreign observers and testified to the proper and impartial conduct of the election ( whereas previous general elections , repeatedly returning the PNC to power , had been considered seriously flawed ) . |
| 18 | She looked in the glass-fronted noticeboards and read of the societies that would be re-forming when term started , and the new committees and the sports arrangements and the practice times , and the appeals for people to join this group and that club . |
| 19 | Although he married into one of the long-established British families and lived on the island for so long , Dr Grabham still bemoaned the exclusiveness of the British in Madeira and said he always felt like an outsider . |
| 20 | In terms of changes , they more strongly believe that the review has changed allocation of resources , improved resources and led to in-service training . |
| 21 | ‘ He saw commercial reps and talked to customers but he always called me in before he put in an order or gave an estimate . ’ |
| 22 | At breakfast time we went through a forest of olive trees and arrived at Puyloubier . |
| 23 | We called out from where we hid in different rooms and listened to our voices echo , we strummed on the few keys left on a rotting piano , and plucked at a broken lute … . |
| 24 | When covering the wedding of her sister Vanessa in 1981 , the same journalist was later phoned by ITN 's corporate head of public relations and accused of taking photographs without Selina 's proper consent . |
| 25 | Cameron stepped between the stunted apple-trees and knocked on the McCulloch' new front door . |
| 26 | He walked back over the warm , moonlit meadows and paused before the inn , but held on to this resolution , the righteousness firing through him like brandy . |
| 27 | We bid our farewells to all our new French friends and got into the car wearily , knowing of the long journey home . |
| 28 | Most charges of seditious words occurred during times of Jacobite scares and tended to be levied at those groups suspected of Jacobite sympathy : Roman Catholics , the Irish , Nonjurors , and the high-flying clergy and gentry . |
| 29 | After his retirement , he chaired the committee on currency and foreign exchanges and served on the cabinet committee on indemnity . |
| 30 | Looking from the sitting room window at the shaggy mass of the copse , she thought again of Ron , and , on an impulse , opened the french windows and walked across the garden to the gap that marked Edward 's comings and goings . |