Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is like turning to the end of the story before you begin reading it , to find out if the bad dies got their just deserts , or the good guys won . |
| 2 | Both her hands around my penis , cosseting it , restraining it , I licked her neck , the backs of my fingers prinked her pink nipples . |
| 3 | Schmidt , Hunter and their associates applied their new techniques to data from many samples drawn from a large number of different occupations . |
| 4 | in the shit , his fucking gone clang , this blokes got his fucking nuts and the next thing he sees is a big fucking plaster balls alone and he 's , he 's got up his wife , he 's having a right old night with here and he 's leaving , and he says I do n't need you , I did n't need |
| 5 | Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later . |
| 6 | They feared that , without proper cover , the City would lose out as an international financial centre as large overseas institutions moved their European offices to less-exposed capitals . |
| 7 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 8 | His eyes scanned her bare fingers and returned to her face , their icy glitter freezing her to the floor . |
| 9 | Her slim shoulders made her ample boobs appear even bigger , hanging like two deliciously ripe melons . |
| 10 | Convey to units concerned my warmest congratulations on a splendid operation . |
| 11 | The party newspaper , L'Humanite , said the firm was giving in to property sharks who want to develop 200 acres around the site where the Renault brothers built their first cars in the family garage more than 90 years ago . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly , many gentry and clergy modified their public pronouncements accordingly , surviving both Parliamentary rule and the Restoration . |
| 13 | Even the most well-intentioned and politically sensitive non-governmental organizations found themselves supporting projects which in the long term strengthened individuals rather than communities , unrealistically raised expectations or created unintended dependency relationships . |
| 14 | Citizens ' Action , an American environmental group , has issued a report showing that US manufacturers reduced their harmful emissions by 18 per cent in 1989 . |
| 15 | In fact Dewey had left unassigned the section 539 , in the physics schedules , allowing , very fortunately , for future developments , and it was only later that the new subjects received their allotted positions in subsequent editions of the scheme . |
| 16 | Alarmed by this influx , many ‘ respectable ’ fans vacated their regular places on the end terraces and congregated in the stands . |
| 17 | However , the steely look in his blue eyes told her such tactics would be ultimately pointless , and she sighed heavily . |
| 18 | His words confirmed my worst fears . |
| 19 | Until the end of the nineteenth century , or even later , most foreign offices adapted their internal structures , for so many generations designed to meet demands which were entirely European , only slowly and reluctantly to cope with new problems which increasingly embraced the entire world . |
| 20 | The Scots finished their 50 overs on 145 for five , with Donald Orr not out 32 , off 54 balls , and Jim Govan unbeaten on 31 , off 43 balls , figures which compare more than favourably with Alastair Storie , whose 25 took him 82 balls . |
| 21 | The ex-MetropolitaN Feltham cars followed their ex-L.U.T. brethren to Telford Avenue and some were allocated to Brixton Hill depôt which was now regarded as an annexe to Telford Avenue and had no traverser . |
| 22 | Our peers included our recent colleagues of yesterday in uniform and in the CID , but also took in the professor of psychiatry , the Home Office Drugs Branch official , the NHS executive , the sociologist , and the media hack . |
| 23 | Digital computers strangled their analogue brethren at birth . |
| 24 | A report by the National Council of Public Morals on The Cinema ( 1917 ) had also scrutinised the problem , entertaining a wide variety of evidence — on such matters as the educational potential of the cinema , censorship and licensing , the molestation of children in picture palaces , and a clouded discussion of what was somewhat eerily called ‘ the moral dangers of darkness ’ — as well as some monosyllabic evidence from children themselves on whether the moving pictures gave them bad dreams . |
| 25 | The gentlemen presented their calling cards . |
| 26 | Poor rates mounted , and many magistrates and overseers continued their moral obligations but in a spirit of growing hopelessness . |
| 27 | Both parties had their own organisations to co-ordinate the activities of their followers and ensure party unity . |
| 28 | Only for the Moon have cratered regions with widely different number densities had their radiometric ages estimated . |
| 29 | The Dragoons sheathed their long swords and drew their carbines , but their aim from horseback was uncertain and the short-barrelled carbine was a weapon of notorious inaccuracy . |
| 30 | Most schools reorganised their governing bodies in Autumn 1988 . |