Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a glitter of hostility in the girl 's velvet-dark eyes which momentarily took Caroline 's breath away … |
| 2 | Walter Peckle , the chief clerk , was a young man grown old before his time , with a complexion sallow and unhealthy , sunken cheeks , and eyes which never stopped blinking . |
| 3 | The Adrian Sherwood-isms which previously dominated NIN 's sound are gone , replaced by an incredibly aggressive but still quite electric musical approach . |
| 4 | Yet the Italian should perhaps be grateful for a more discriminating anniversary review of his achievements in place of the flood of notes and words which almost submerged Mozart 's genius . |
| 5 | We have continued to develop the sale of high quality timber into those branches which previously sold building materials only . |
| 6 | There were clients who continually pestered dealers about their warrants . |
| 7 | ‘ I wondered where Muriel was , ’ Theodora said hopefully , thinking with regret of the homely body in knitted Fair Isle bodices who usually manned Gilbert 's phone . |
| 8 | Since the loss of their monopoly as the ruling party , the communists now accounted for half the Politburo ; the rest represented the different parties who now shared power . |
| 9 | Henry Thomas and his son , Philip Henry , were probably Welsh speakers who both married women from Gwent . |
| 10 | Those listeners who also had television sets were asked about their viewing . |
| 11 | With the help of several Frenchmen he eventually reached Spain , but this neutral country 's police handed him back to the Gestapo . |
| 12 | The German environment minister , Klaus Töpfer , has announced details of a programme to improve environmental quality in the five states which formally comprised East Germany . |
| 13 | They challenged the Home Secretary 's 1983 policies which effectively abolished parole for certain categories of prisoners , but did win the right , with the assistance of the European Commission for Human Rights to be legally represented at prison disciplinary hearings . |
| 14 | The Law Lords unanimously rejected Cheall 's application on the ground that there was no principle of law which prevented the union from relying on its own rules which also bound Cheall . |
| 15 | A further directive , agreed on Dec. 22 , abolished all the remaining national rules which currently barred EC life insurance companies from offering policies to citizens of other member states ( for changes relating to other insurance areas see p. 36494 ) . |
| 16 | Smaller groups which also gained representation in the Federal Assembly were ( i ) the Movement for Self-governing Democracy-Society for Moravia and Silesia ( MSD-SMS ) , which sought the restoration of separate government for the historic territory of Moravia-Silesia ; ( ii ) the Slovak National Party , demanding total internal autonomy for Slovakia , favouring the retention of links with Prague only in foreign affairs and defence ( although with separate representation abroad for Slovakia ) , and seen by many as basically hostile to the Czechs and to the Hungarian minority in Slovakia ; and ( iii ) Coexistence ( also known by its Hungarian name Egyutteles ) , a coalition of the Hungarian , Polish and other minority nationalities , which formed an electoral alliance with the Hungarian Christian Democratic Movement , and polled heavily among the Hungarian minority in southern Slovakia . |
| 17 | These products extend the range of JS Revive products which previously comprised tissues , toilet tissues and kitchen rolls . |
| 18 | As well as catering for the spiritual needs of the Russian settlers , monks , sometimes with lay assistants , participated in the colonial process by establishing small monastic communities which soon attracted peasants and became the focus of new communities . |
| 19 | In mid-1990 the three largest US companies selling canned tuna fish , accounting for 70 per cent of the US market , had announced that they would no longer buy tuna caught in nets which also caught dolphins . |
| 20 | Mr Lindsay was worried that the lone TOPP students in some regional offices might feel isolated , and that many companies which initially showed enthusiasm for the idea have now cooled off . |
| 21 | Kimura ( 1973a ) observed the movements which right handed people made with their hands during five minutes of conversation and during five minute periods of silent verbal and non-verbal problem solving . |
| 22 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 23 | The 43-year-old Alton woman faked her spouse 's signature on 29 transactions which together totalled £1,155 . |
| 24 | Since his arrival , Sir Kit McMahon has shunned the clearing-bank careerists who traditionally peppered Midland 's senior ranks . |
| 25 | Germans not alive when Nazis ruled their country feel shame and a sense of obligation toward Jews ; white Americans who inherited nothing from slaveholders feel an indeterminate responsibility to blacks who never wore chains . |
| 26 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENT : The authors would like to express their sincere appreciation to the oil companies who kindly provided log examples , core data , core samples and their very valuable advice and to the Schlumberger staff in The Hague and in London for their contribution . |
| 27 | In fact , months of wrangling between the band 's manager and the record company usually ends with the band being dropped , by which time the other record companies who initially showed interest have gone cold . |
| 28 | Mr Anderson went across to his home to inform his wife and when he learned of the family circumstances he immediately paid Mrs Stevens £50 . |
| 29 | The psychologist suggested that the parents themselves really wanted George to be placed in a residential school but did not wish to appear that they were rejecting him . |
| 30 | Sixty-nine percent of authorities in our sample ( see Table 17 ) said they directly budgeted money for training , ( 70.5% of the CRUS sample , with one-quarter of the authorities who directly budgeted money also calculating a specific further amount , e.g. : |