Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 32 | In the decentralizing of money management , ambiguities also arose in connection with buildings ( where were the dividing lines between repairs , maintenance and improvements ? ) and in personnel ( did governors have a different responsibility for teachers in contrast to non-teachers ? ) . |
| 33 | The grey eyes instantly overflowed with tears and the girl 's features , unformed miniature suggestions of the wide-browed Fairley face , distorted in misery . |
| 34 | Both declarations also called for negotiations on the restoration of their republics ' independence , although the Latvian Supreme Soviet foresaw " a free and independent State of Latvia " being part of a reformed Soviet Union ( the formula favoured by President Gorbachev for restructuring the Soviet Union as a confederation of sovereign states — see pp. 36883 ; 37168 ) . |
| 35 | A new entrance capable of allowing these larger ships into Imperial Dock was completed in September while the fitting out quay at Victoria Shipyard incorporating new gates on the slipways also came into use during the year . |
| 36 | Drinkers also moaned about dirt and smells in pubs , bad toilets and ‘ down-at-heel ’ gardens . |
| 37 | Expenditure on Central Office , district offices and the London office doubled from £32,466 in 1909–10 to $68,957 in 1913–14 ; the total expenditure of the party organization from central funds also doubled from $73,000 to over £150,000 . |
| 38 | Some of the earliest examples of Floral Style vessels also came from Knossos ; they are gracefully shaped vases decorated with stylized but recognizable white lilies and recalling the famous Lily Fresco from Amnisos . |
| 39 | Thus for BrF the first band shows a splitting of about 0·32 eV and is clearly due to a level largely localized on Br ; in IBr ( Fig. 6.18 ) the first two bands show splittings of 0·58 and 0·36 eV and are assigned to lone-pairs mainly localized on I and Br , respectively . |
| 40 | The younger men amongst the Jews often roared with laughter when the older men , the original immigrants , talked of some experience or incident , for the young bucks were first generation British and educated . |
| 41 | If Aunt Emily had looked shocked before her eyes now dilated in horror . |
| 42 | Their application to such industries as spinning and weaving in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries often resulted in inventions suited to the circumstances of petty producers : The new machines required little capital and a family-sized labor force , and hence were well suited to the perpetuation of cottage industry . |
| 43 | If only she could be with her , give her a hug , the affection and understanding she needed , at the same time trying to make her see that issuing ultimatums inevitably led to war — whether it was between countries or lovers ! |
| 44 | ‘ Pole is important , even if the statistics show that no more than 50 per cent of the winners here started from pole in the last 10 years , ’ he said . |
| 45 | A few of the songs here appeared on Setzer 's ‘ The Knife Feels Like Justice ’ records , but this new LP is still probably worth checking out for the rumbling ‘ ( Do n't Sell My Daddy ) No More Whiskey ’ . |
| 46 | The Tans immediately began to prance around him , laughing and howling . |
| 47 | ’ No kids , no heavy relationships , no sweat , ’ she says in her blunt way , curled up like an imp , smoking like a chimney , in one of her mother 's immaculate armchairs , a vision of bleached cropped hair , bright pink baggy cotton trousers , black eyes heavily rimmed with mascara . |
| 48 | His parties certainly looked like orgies . |
| 49 | Cramped working positions were a fact of life for miners in the narrow seams , but other trades too complained of cramps and " craft palsies " including saddlers , sawyers and nail makers . |
| 50 | It was with satisfaction that she noted how Bob Lamb 's eyes continually strayed to Martha . |
| 51 | Benny tried to concentrate on the Doctor 's words while her eyes continually strayed towards Elaine . |
| 52 | Conflict was deferred by the attempt to reach agreement along the lines of ‘ Manchuria for Korea ’ ( Mankan kó0kan ) ( i.e. Manchuria for Russia and Korea for Japan ) , but the two countries eventually came to blows in 1904 over the failure of Russian troops to withdraw on schedule from Manchuria . |
| 53 | Lorton had known who they were as soon as he 'd seen them ; he had been expecting the police , though not quite as soon as this , and in any case salesmen rarely travelled in pairs . |
| 54 | He discovered from Nicholson senior that Nails rarely slept at home and from Nails 's classmates that he went off with a woman on a motor-bike at four o'clock everyday . |
| 55 | Although Trusts only came into operation in April ninety one , the evidence suggests that many , that many have improved patient services in many w many areas waiting lists have been cut through greater efficiency and increased use of day surgery . |
| 56 | The offences only came to light because of an attempt to inflate profits at Alexander Howden , which was discovered by the American company Alexander and Alexander after it bought the company . |
| 57 | American banks ' loans totalled $157 billion in 1992 , of which one-fifth were not being serviced ; British banks ' lending to property companies alone stood at £37 billion in March 1993 . |
| 58 | We used to treat our coral cuts with iodine , unaware that the coral polyps which had entered the wounds normally thrived on iodine which they extracted from seawater — and were now extracting from our blood . |
| 59 | In the following month , Edward broke his feudal links with the French crown , and the two countries soon drifted into war . |
| 60 | The biggest component of these exports was textiles ; in March 1990 the USA had agreed to double Turkey 's quota of textile imports , and in May 1991 the EC increased by 30 per cent the quota for Turkish textiles entering the European market , in which around 40 per cent of imports already came from Turkey . |