Example sentences of "[noun pl] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in his earlier four- and five-part motets Andrea had generally maintained a conservative style , the Penitential Psalms show his skill in what one may call choral orchestration , and in the Concerti he developed polychoral writing far beyond the simple antiphony of the salmi spezzati of Ruffino and Willaert . |
| 2 | Beneath it , across the ornately worked rugs Maurice had undoubtedly paid for , Natasha strode purposefully ahead . |
| 3 | However , the original terms of the Rover sale proposed to limit the tax concessions by ‘ ring fencing ’ the gain , because of the huge losses Rover had previously made . |
| 4 | An American company Health Images UK has already installed a body scanner , which uses a magnetic field to detect problems , at its medical centre on Darlington 's Yarm Road Industrial Estate . |
| 5 | A middle-aged man with corn-coloured hair and the bluest eyes Willie had ever seen was sitting on a stool milking one of a handful of cows . |
| 6 | She had the softest charcoal-brown eyes Virginia had ever seen . |
| 7 | This has to be one of the slickest cars Japan has yet made . |
| 8 | Standing in his arms in this way was arousing sensations Caroline had never felt before . |
| 9 | The result was a pair of lace-edged , calf-length black tights , very stretchy and very shiny , topped with a dramatic beaded blouse — the fabric was black silk and the beading multi-coloured and dangling — as well as the highest heels Belinda had ever worn . |
| 10 | In other aspects SCOTVEC had already introduced improvements to its procedures . |
| 11 | His Excellency has been one of the best Ambassadors Spain has ever sent us , and his very dear wife has given him so much support . |
| 12 | She wore the strangest shoes Carolyn had ever seen . |
| 13 | Contractors BAe has already announced the closure of its plant in Hatfield , Herts . |
| 14 | I was thinking today you and Jennifer got honours Emma got highly commended and Lisa got commended . |
| 15 | The last few years Sarah had practically suffocated her only daughter . |
| 16 | But these days Hazel seemed sufficiently impressed by him anyway , whatever he did . |
| 17 | In God 's purposes Jesus had already gone to the cross , he was alre , hi his , his natural fate if you like , was already sealed , he had come for this purpose , he had come to die . |
| 18 | Their faces and arms were covered with the biggest freckles Willie had ever seen . |
| 19 | This assumption of political power as well as military command represented little short of a coup by Franco and a group of military and civilian supporters , mostly of monarchist sympathies ; within days Franco had quietly promoted himself to ‘ Head of State ’ , a title he was to retain until his death 39 years later . |
| 20 | To many observers Reagan had long ceased to be a president and become a king-like figure who communicated with his people in platitudinous homilies . |
| 21 | Once the parents had been shown how to carry out the technique they became more confident in using it and over the course of the next two weeks Mary stopped physically attacking her sister . |
| 22 | In fact , the elephants Wallace mentions never reached Borneo of their own accord . |
| 23 | In following years France had indeed benefited from the financial bonanza unleashed in Iran by the oil price rise . |
| 24 | Just as characters in the plays switch from Thou to You and back in a way that seems to us to have no evident rationale , so in the Sonnets Shakespeare uses both forms indifferently , and indeed switches from one to the other within one poem ( Sonnet 24 ) . |
| 25 | It made him difficult to fix , especially for eyes awash with brandy , the merest motion of his head breaking subtle waves against his bones , their spume draining back into his skin trailing colours Estabrook had never seen in flesh before . |
| 26 | In his later years Howard seems increasingly to have retired from public life . |
| 27 | Over many years Meccano became widely used by designers to demonstrate ideas useful in mechanical research . |
| 28 | What qualities Em had ever seen in Edwin Frere quite beggared comprehension . |
| 29 | Today , all the things Crevecoeur had once found repellent about leaving the city seemed intensely desirable . |
| 30 | If not , his brown eyes wore an expression as helpless and martyred as those of Saint Sebastian in the paintings Molly had always admired . |