Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandy lay still for a while , hoping to feel better ; but being flat on her back did n't help , and closing her eyes only made it worse . |
| 2 | Soviet allies sometimes found themselves opposed to each other ( such as the Ba'athist governments of Syria and Iraq , or Ethiopia and Somalia ) , and others entered into agreements with Soviet adversaries ( both Angola and Mozambique , for instance , signed non-aggression agreements with South Africa in 1984 , and Soviet clients generally found it difficult to resist the powerful influence of Western governments and corporations , or in the case of Ethiopia , relief agencies ) . |
| 3 | ‘ My moving was temporary , but the cats moving months later made it permanent . |
| 4 | A human family would never return to such a scene of grisly death , but the owls just took it all calmly . |
| 5 | They tormented her enough on the grounds of her pale skin , her thin body and her grandmother 's pretensions to gentility and the shoes only gave them another cause to tease . |
| 6 | Your features in DIY upholstery and soft furnishings also told me all I need to know about renovating second-hand furniture . |
| 7 | The procedural structure of trusts also lent them great advantages in setting up dispositions in favour of third parties , and enhanced the chances of those dispositions being observed and enforced . |
| 8 | The refusal of the members to commit themselves in controversial matters certainly made it possible to achieve uniformity , and to make a powerful contribution to the debate on curricular diversity . |
| 9 | THE best Yorkshire crowds always gave you some stick when you deserved it . |
| 10 | Victor and I spent a month in the sun trying to drink it out of our systems , but the hangovers only made it worse . |
| 11 | The leaders of the new organisations also found it difficult to cope with the speed of growth of their organisations . |
| 12 | The video is actually a parody of Robert Palmer , the slithering lounge lizard of pop who four years ago thought it cool to cast his videos with countless women dressed exactly the same , acting like mass-produced mannequins . |
| 13 | Do you know a , a hairdresser years ago told me that . |
| 14 | Many of the old people who did this job sixty and seventy years ago told me some of their experiences . |
| 15 | Robert Cecil 's total benefits from office in terms of influence and contacts probably brought him more than Sadler 's £2,600 ; but , once again , the increase was not huge when set beside the rise in prices . |
| 16 | In June he went up to Leeds for a three-week holiday : the air of the Yorkshire moors always did him good , and there were in the vicinity a doctor , an oculist and a radiologist to examine him periodically . |
| 17 | In other words , they created a self-image and then sold it to the greater powers of western Europe ; and whatever their reaction , be it incredulous , admiring or contemptuous , these powers now found it impossible to ignore the Scots ' insistent demands that they should be noticed . |
| 18 | The older farmers particularly found it difficult to concentrate for more than 3 hours . |
| 19 | But he felt no exhilaration , and he did not participate in the public celebrations after the surrender of the Japanese ; the noise of the fireworks actually disturbed him more than the bombs of the blitz . |
| 20 | Their desire to keep rates down made them reluctant to build council houses . |
| 21 | British Airways then flew me free of charge to Paris , where the Niger authorities gave me permission to cross their territory . |
| 22 | Such LDCs subsequently found it difficult to service external debts and this had grave implications for the world 's financial system . |
| 23 | Its gentle approach and its emphasis on sensible preventive measures also gave it considerable patient appeal when compared with the more barbarous established approaches . |
| 24 | Some local law societies again found it difficult to reach a conclusion on the matter , although it was generally felt ( as per Suffolk and North Essex ) that the political consequences of limiting payments would be counter-productive . |
| 25 | She explained why Bangladeshi women sometimes found it difficult to look after their children in Britain . |
| 26 | Despite this , Moseley 's skills never made him rich . |
| 27 | If tax-relief-induced donations did not go to pay for mainline social service functions and elected representatives still felt it necessary to continue to provide them , they would have a lower tax base on which to raise the revenue . |
| 28 | Some could n't say what they 'd been wearing themselves , but their female colleagues usually gave us some idea . ’ |
| 29 | Engels always found it difficult to control the wild swings of his enthusiasms . |
| 30 | Although Laura 's formal education finished prematurely , she showed a remarkable capacity for intellectual growth in the middle years of her life : many of her ideas were changing so fast that her colleagues often found it difficult to keep pace . |