Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His enemies attacked its vulgar over-simplification , but the lecture did bring near the centre of popular debate many of the problems which Moberly had analysed a decade before . |
| 2 | Lecturers voiced their overwhelming support for Mrs Falconer and her sister at a meeting at RGU yesterday . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If , in addition , they could hire for private patients the very expensive facilities in the way of X-ray machines , operating theatres and the like , to be found within the National Health Service , this too made their lives very much easier and in many cases made their private practice a possibility . |
| 5 | Long before button badges made their punk-inspired debut , Gedge and Co had realised the earning potential of such merchandise . |
| 6 | Clearly , a large and growing majority of occupiers owned their own home . |
| 7 | An anonymous letter from an opponent of the regime in Franconia , condemning the ‘ puppet show ’ of the Reichstag and claiming ninety per cent of Germans shared his own desire , that Hitler ‘ disappear from the face of the earth as fast as possible ’ , was an absurd exaggeration . |
| 8 | Both her hands around my penis , cosseting it , restraining it , I licked her neck , the backs of my fingers prinked her pink nipples . |
| 9 | The Times made its strongest attack , one of the strongest ever made by that paper on a government department , in an editorial in February 1971 : |
| 10 | India 's openers produced their first half-century stand of the series , but they lost three wickets before reaching three figures , and another at 102 , when Vengsarkar , stretching down the pitch , was unamused to be given out lbw to Hughes 's slower ‘ googly ’ . |
| 11 | Schmidt , Hunter and their associates applied their new techniques to data from many samples drawn from a large number of different occupations . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | Then her fingers found his bare flesh and a streak of intense heat shot through her . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | as if in answer to her thoughts , The Times helped her next morning . |
| 17 | The University decreed zero hope for recovery for Arthur , though they tried everything they could , and one of the personnel devoted his whole life to Arthur during the six months he was hospitalised there . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Along to the bottom left-hand corner ; then up the side , overcompensating for the slight uphill slope until she realized that the suit 's powered legs made her extra effort redundant ; along the top ; down the other side ; back to where she 'd started . |
| 20 | Accustomed and unaware , they did not even shiver as their warm bare " shoulders met its blue embrace . |
| 21 | Almost immediately referee , Paul Taylor blew his whistle , the poor Portsmouth fans made their sad way home to the south coast , the players with heads drooped , left the field and many of the United fans were already leaving the ground in the crowd of five hundred five thousand , two hundred and twenty six when Andy Melville scored that vital goal which gave United three very important League points . |
| 22 | Glinting blue eyes scanned her slender form . |
| 23 | His eyes scanned her bare fingers and returned to her face , their icy glitter freezing her to the floor . |
| 24 | His eyes scanned her slim figure , slumped now dispiritedly against the sofa cushions . |
| 25 | Her slim shoulders made her ample boobs appear even bigger , hanging like two deliciously ripe melons . |
| 26 | In Melody Maker The Stud Brothers made their usual attack on Gedge . |
| 27 | ON THIS DAY : In 1903 , the Wright Brothers made their first flight in the Kitty Hawk . |
| 28 | The second battalion of the Scots Guards made their final appearance at Edinburgh 's Dreghorn barracks . |
| 29 | Convey to units concerned my warmest congratulations on a splendid operation . |
| 30 | A cool firm finger against her lips stemmed her confused tide of words . |