Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also in ITV 's winter package of programmes announced yesterday include Jilly Cooper 's new lust-in-the-saddle mini-series Riders and a controversial documentary series The Good Sex Guide hosted by Making Out star Margi Clarke . |
| 2 | He finds a neat but dubious way of skirting Paul Simon 's problem with the cultural boycott : South African musicians laid down backing tracks in Johannesburg in his absence and then he overdubbed vocals in the US . |
| 3 | Despite unsuitable premises , lack of funding and a dearth of promised support from the council , many groups tried hard to accommodate children 's needs . |
| 4 | Foreign artists tried hopelessly to find work , dig trenches , look after the four cows in the Bois de Boulogne , anything to earn a few francs . |
| 5 | Both parties agreed not to make peace without the other 's consent . |
| 6 | The writer well remembers the surge of power as the cars moved forward leaving motor vehicles well behind ; similar to that of an American PCC car , which the equipment was designed to emulate . |
| 7 | Thirteen districts used well established instruments , 33 used locally developed instruments , and 66 used a combination . |
| 8 | The Cheetahs lost 47 to 43 at Bellevue over the weekend , but despite that defeat hundreds of supporters turned up to see world cup er world champion Hans Nielsen in training last night relieved and smiling that their hero was staying in Oxford . |
| 9 | NEARLY 10,000 fans turned out to see St Helens ' new Kiwi signing Jarrod McCracken live up to his pre-match billing as the ‘ new Mal Meninga ’ . |
| 10 | In June , French troops arrived at Leith , and the French and Scots settled down to besiege Haddington . |
| 11 | A tragedy for the customers of all the banks , mostly French these days , that have substantial funds tied up financing IBM mainframes on the assumption of residual values that are emphatically no longer justified , and therefore do n't now have that money available to finance new and promising businesses . |
| 12 | However , when Karamoja experienced severe famine in 1979 and 1980 , aid organizations streamed in to provide relief food . |
| 13 | Throughout the Minoan period , Cretan craftsmen went on making stone axes and maces . |
| 14 | With the advent of ‘ glam ’ , some younger kids wore brightly painted Dr. Martens shoes ( to match hair ) then there was the crepe soled , brightly coloured shoes of '72 –'73.; |
| 15 | She had a hand pressed against the wall for support , and her hard tone and blunt words did n't fool Belinda into thinking she did n't care . |
| 16 | His words did not make sense at all . |
| 17 | For once the preciseness of the words did not irritate Aggie , and she answered gently , ‘ I 'm sorry , love , but … but she 's had to go away for a day or two . ’ |
| 18 | Piers did not have meat , but only cheese , loaves of beans and bran and various vegetables , and it was on these that he would have to live until Lammas and the new harvest . |
| 19 | A total of 367 pupils in Wales took the GT4 test ( two schools did not return tests ) approximately one-third using the Welsh language versions . |
| 20 | However , schools did not like students to feel at home in arts and science : a rigid division between the two prevailed : |
| 21 | But these signals did not reach AFHQ until the morning of the next day , 15 May , long after Robertson had sent his response to McCreery 's AC/189 which had only asked for " immediate steps " to be taken over the approach of Army Group E , and which had made no specific reference to Croats . |
| 22 | East and West met in a festive mood and border guards gave up checking documents . |
| 23 | Finally , and very importantly , they were also responsible for ( a ) the payment of support workers ' wages , and ( b ) for ensuring that expenditure on clients did not exceed budget limits . |
| 24 | As there were lights on the backs of these boxes , the cars did not have stairhead lamps . |
| 25 | The islanders did n't have money then , and as they did n't have money they did n't know what ‘ poor ’ meant . |
| 26 | The whales were being killed for sport because the islanders did not require whale meat for survival , she added . |
| 27 | The mounting criticism of the parties did not deter de Gaulle , however , and on 21 October 1945 the election-referendum went ahead as planned . |
| 28 | All the nodes were manufactured and all but one was delivered ; however , the parties did not finalise agreement on the price or the terms to govern the contract and S retained the final node at its factory , pending agreement . |
| 29 | The very moderate success of these methods did not prevent suggestions that they be copied in Britain . |
| 30 | Would he care to contemplate what unemployment in Scotland would be if the bases at Leuchars , Lossiemouth , Kinloss , Rosyth and Coulport were to close and if Rolls-Royce , Yarrow , British Aerospace and other defence manufacturers did not receive work because Scotland was a separatist country ? |