Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The later programmes laid down clearer guidelines about the objectives and role of Urban Programme funding than was always apparent in the later 1970s . |
| 2 | The chipped face of the Virgin , newly gaudy for Easter with pink and blue paint , stares detachedly through Sister Martha : close half-sleeves to the elbow under the wide sleeves of her habit , kneelength stockings , large loose knickers doled out that morning from the heap in the laundry basket , lumpy sanitary towel strapped like a dead rabbit between her legs . |
| 3 | She 'd been robbed of words , had no speech to tell him to stop this glorious torture , could only groan deep in her throat as his questing fingers flickered over one nipple , bringing it to prominent life even through the material of her leotard . |
| 4 | Large limousines cruised down wide roads . |
| 5 | Many of these occur in the Cambrian — it is as if the echinoderms tried out various designs before settling for the successful models that mostly survive today . |
| 6 | The drivers roared round tight corners and skilfully navigated a twisty , bendy and muddy course . |
| 7 | We could put a ‘ Teas ’ notice up , in case any stray hikers came along this way ; but we must n't bank on it . |
| 8 | He picked me up and clear of the beer keg so that the flex holding my legs came off clear hut it stayed on my ankles , acting as a hobble . |
| 9 | There were cars parked down both sides even if I 'd wanted to get closer , which I did n't . |
| 10 | A quick flip through my cookery books turned up some Italian and Middle Eastern dishes that bore a passing resemblance to what had happened on Rebecca 's plate . |
| 11 | When the borders opened up last year , they realised they had the worst . |
| 12 | The development of British industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries opened up new avenues for achieving success and becoming part of the upper strata . |
| 13 | Earlier this year a newspaper headline screamed : ‘ Schools rapped over environmental studies ’ . |
| 14 | A flouncy negligee and a pair of tights lay over one chair ; the tiny television was perched on another ; a soggy packet of frozen spinach lay beside the gas-ring ; on the crumpled candlewick of the bed an Evening Standard was open at the entertainments ' page so she could decide which film to go and see . |
| 15 | But the fleeting images brought back piercing emotions . |
| 16 | His words brought back another scene . |
| 17 | And the , the price was thirty nine pounds and as far as I know at the time the , the pianos went down that terrace I do n't think anybody could play it properly . |
| 18 | Visiting cosmonauts brought back 27 seed pods in the summer , and the seeds have since sprouted and grown normally . |
| 19 | Confusion also arose when schools took over administrative functions which traditionally had been located in LEAs . |
| 20 | Very few husbands took on any household chores . |
| 21 | The New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago commodity exchanges are looking at programme trades carried out last July which may have flouted market rules and contributed to sudden movements in both the Dow Jones index and the S&P 500 futures index . |
| 22 | Prior to going to BATUS , the battlegroups carried out two weeks ' preparatory training in the Soltau Training Area in northern Germany . |
| 23 | David Downes in The Delinquent Solution refers to a study of Chicago gangs carried out thirty years previously for support on this point . |
| 24 | The womenfolk noted down completed sections of the poem , and probably supplied the punctuation — we often feel that there is no reason why one sentence stops and another begins . |
| 25 | The story , therefore , from the seventh century onwards becomes an increasingly complex one as more countries sought out individual ways of satisfying their own needs , techniques , modes of living and religious beliefs . |
| 26 | I stopped being blind as my feet squelched over marshy ground where common spotted orchids grew to pick my way across medieval ridge-and-furrow pasture . |
| 27 | Missing The region is covered by hypotheses centered over adjacent phonemes . |
| 28 | While the concerto had sounded complete and satisfying in its original three-movement format , the additional movements opened up new horizons and changed its structural proportions without distorting any of its existing perspectives . |
| 29 | Tony 's feet crunched over white pebbles , on the path that led to the front door of the insurance company where he spent seven hours a day hunched over claim-forms . |
| 30 | In the last round the Exiles knocked out Third Division leaders Havant and skipper Andy Tucker says : ‘ If we can beat Redruth we could draw one of the big clubs at home . |