Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [adv] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using skilled tutors , such as Mary Adams from Cambridge , who shared in the group-listening sessions and then extended the broadcast themes through discussion and supplementary material , the BBC programmes at Harrold and Goldington led directly to longer courses . |
| 2 | The judges sifted through over 8,000 entries and finally picked the name ‘ Spring Ovation ’ as the winner . |
| 3 | The smiths formed very close groups based on strong family ties and carefully retained the secret of their craft , including the mystic rituals and the name of their gods . |
| 4 | He held McAllister 's hand for a little longer than propriety might demand , and the pair of them stood for a moment , rapt , until the surgery boy , who ran the doctor 's errands on his bike , delivered prescriptions and generally did a great deal of donkey work , knocked on the door before he came in , saying excitedly and importantly , ‘ You 're wanted , Dr Neil , sir . |
| 5 | Hence when I went to the Lords in 1965 I sat as a cross-bencher , although periodically , according to my attitude at the time , I was supporting one or other of the two parties and rarely took a cross-bench approach . |
| 6 | The victory of Roman imperialism can in its turn be described as the result of four factors : the new direction given by Rome to the social — that is the military — forces of old Italy ; the utter inability of any Hellenistic army to match the Romans in the field ; the painful erosion of Celtic civilization and its appendages which went on for centuries and ultimately enabled the Romans to control the resources of western Europe from the Atlantic to the Danubian regions ; and finally the cooperation of Greek intellectuals with Italian politicians and writers in creating a new bilingual culture which gave sense to life under Roman rule . |
| 7 | Before they began treating it , the plucky 5ft 4in runner 's hair fell out , she suffered from massive blood blisters and occasionally lost the sight of one eye . |
| 8 | The children were provided with facts regarding , for example , packaging and recycling opportunities and then used the information to make ‘ hands on ’ choices from a range of consumer goods . |
| 9 | Martin Luther King , now the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC 1957 ) , believed in non-violent methods and consciously followed the teachings of the Indian leader , Mahatma Gandhi . |
| 10 | Then he opened his eyes , spoke a few words and eventually tried a few tentative steps round his hospital room . |
| 11 | Then she mixed it up and ladled the soil back into the flowerpots , tore open her seed packets and hastily poked the seeds into the soil . |
| 12 | After a few minutes she bent her head and dropped a kiss lightly on his ankle , and then her hand slid up under the leg of the leathers and sensuously kneaded the firm muscle at the back of his calf . |
| 13 | ‘ I was on the dole for three months and then got a job . |
| 14 | Many people thought he was too powerful , especially when he was able to set up his own sponsored tournaments , sometimes in opposition to official ones , into which he put his own clients and then sold the television rights around the world . |
| 15 | I peered at the labels and too began the Harry , Frank , Charlie , Mabel way . |
| 16 | The women , who had lost their craft specialisation , had few opportunities to develop any new specialisms and so lost the independence and prestige they had had from making cotton lengths . |
| 17 | Mr Hern raised the funds for the acquisition from friends , family and fellow authors but also received a generous ‘ life-line ’ from Currency Press , his counterpart in Australia , which offered to print a proportion of his programme . |
| 18 | The past approach — for instance , where they analysed statistics in terms of travel-to-work areas and lumped West Belfast and its massive levels of unemployment in with other areas and thereby diluted the whole thing down to 12 or 13% in the Belfast travel-to-work area which extended from Larne to Downpatrick — was n't helpful . |
| 19 | She was untainted by the radical politics of earlier reformers and wisely avoided the tendentious macro-economics of the Neo-Malthusians . |
| 20 | Those who said they would were unmarried or widowers and probably found the combination of housework , farmwork and off-farm work too demanding . |
| 21 | Carver had tapped keys and up came the data on the Lennox girl . |
| 22 | Rain took the keys and quietly asked the messenger to hand them to Mona . |
| 23 | People belonged to their parents ' jati and automatically followed the occupation of the jati into which they were born . |
| 24 | She put her hands in her pockets and briskly walked the short distance to the square . |
| 25 | If you treasure a vinyl copy of ‘ Hatful Of Hollow ’ , remember dancing to ‘ Crash ’ at student discos and once thought The Darling Buds were dead good , the shiny , happy , ( yes ! ) jangly Popinjays are bound to be your scene . |
| 26 | But last year it sold seven million bibles translated into 119 languages to 90 countries and so became the world 's largest exporter of bibles . |
| 27 | Nineteenth-century concordats had improved the legal position of Roman Catholicism in many countries and often left the clergy considerable powers over such matters as education , yet Papal Infallibility , the Syllabus of Errors and the Church 's resistance to the conclusions of biblical criticism alienated intellectuals . |
| 28 | With Allen 's help she bathed it with wine from the last of the Friar 's bottles and then made a pad of cooling leaves and re-bandaged it . |
| 29 | But it was n't to be : he knocked the putt by about 3 feet and then pulled the one coming back wide and finished up shooting a 63 . |
| 30 | And one of the most experienced U-boat commanders , Adalbert Schnee , who had been on sixteen patrols and later became a member of Dönitz 's staff , gave evidence that it was contrary to orders to kill survivors and that there could be no excuse for what Eck had done . |