Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time of the afternoon I knew only Lisabeth would be home , so I was n't too worried . |
| 2 | As things turned out , the seventeenth century saw a total collapse which left both Newbury and Reading only the remnants of their former trade . |
| 3 | He moved with a grace and speed which surprised both Athelstan and his opponents . |
| 4 | The policy implication here is that family planning programmes are linked strongly with conservation programmes ( as in Kenya or in India in Sanjay Gandhi 's Four ( and later Five ) Point Programme which included both family planning and reafforestation ) . |
| 5 | Research was then produced by Jeff Woods from the Institute of Food Research which backed up part of Sam Weller 's argument . |
| 6 | It is this last uncertainty which influenced both Conrad ( 1979 ) and Meadow ( 1980 ) in suggesting that an MCE form of signing is most likely to satisfy deaf children 's needs . |
| 7 | It was probably ties of neighbourhood which brought both Peter and Walter de Cantilupe into the circle of Simon of Montfort , for Beaudesert and Aston Cantlow are respectively nine and twelve miles distant from Kenilworth , after 1244 Simon 's great base in England . |
| 8 | In 1898 the rigidly enforced ‘ code ’ of practice which laid down curriculum guidelines for elementary schools ( Standard 1 to 7 ) was abolished . |
| 9 | This is a Greek work for love , and so instead of celebrating the eucharist , we shared this meal of love and friendship which brought in themes of the past two days — seizing the day . |
| 10 | This was followed by a mystery stomach bug which struck down Blues midfielder Ian McCoosh and several directors in Tbilisi — plus virtual house-arrest in the hotel as Georgian security feared for the safety of their Western visitors . |
| 11 | Ian Balding , the winning trainer who sent out Mill Reef to win the Arc in 1971 , said : ‘ If ever a horse deserves to win a Group One race it is Silver Fling . |
| 12 | The exploration industry itself took on staff at an increased rate , and the market conditions for employment obliged the universities to undertake the training required . |
| 13 | The adverse consequences of such loose rein appointment procedures were not lost on one White House aide who served both Nixon and Reagan During the transition the Reagan forces took a number of steps designed to deal with the sort of problems over appointments that Nixon had encountered . |
| 14 | Erm the education side you picked up university and school fees . |
| 15 | Now the probings of the BBC interviewers , those secular confessors who stood for all the modern torturers goading and vexing him — the critics , the reviewers , the Stroud tax-man who sniffed out Waugh 's lucrative tax-dodges — were inside . |
| 16 | In the previous chapter we saw how anthropology was sometimes used by them to show the historical particularity of institutions which under capitalism were represented as eternal . |
| 17 | In the last chapter we described how Bob and Joan Halton had been drawn together — had ‘ chosen ’ each other — by an unconscious preoccupation with handling their emotional greed . |
| 18 | THE White House is still trying desperately to live down the story of US President Bill Clinton 's 200 dollar haircut — almost a week after the trim aboard Air Force One closed down part of Los Angeles airport . |
| 19 | Almost a week after President Bill Clinton 's £130 snipping aboard presidential jet Air Force One closed down part of Los Angeles airport , forcing planes to circle , hairdresser Cristophe 's coiffure is still making waves . |
| 20 | It sill shows the damage inflicted by Maj von Keller with an axe behind a barn at Quatre Bras ; to his disappointment it contained only dishes and toilet articles , not the gold coins he had expected . |
| 21 | Chiswell Street is quiet and sedate nowadays but two hundred years ago it was the powerhouse for the Whitbread brewery which churned out Porter , the dark beer named after the London market porters who knocked it back at a fearsome rate early in the morning . |
| 22 | Thus , the two highly influential volumes produced by Taylor , Walton and Young ( 1973 ; 1975 ) espoused a commitment to socialist praxis which opposed both correctionalism and the ‘ identification of deviance with pathology ’ ( 1975 , p. 44 ) . |
| 23 | A contract was a matter for agreement between the respective parents , although the participants were consulted and there was a provision in the Yasa which prevented particularly women from being married off without their consent . |
| 24 | Hi ho , hi ho it 's off to win we go … despite a row in the Dexter lines when the breed award went to a cow which finished only second in its class , the diminutive breed dwarfed all other dairy classes at the East of England Show . |
| 25 | This was the play which showed how Annie Sullivan taught Helen stricken deaf and blind when she was 19 months old , — the meaning of words , a finger tip alphabet , and to write . |
| 26 | This activity was quite widely popular , with the exception of the changes in trade union law which had only minority support . |
| 27 | Ironically Martin 's opposite number Ian Westwater was , by contrast , guilty of the error which brought about Andy Smith 's 23rd-minute winner . |
| 28 | More abstractly the particularities of circumstance which attended both Julian 's and Margery 's report of their experiences illuminate the position of women and the roles open to them within the heirarchy of spiritual authority in the late medieval period . |
| 29 | WC apps : 6 Austria gladdened a few hearts in 1978 when they beat West Germany but lost a lot of friends in 1982 when they conspired with the West Germans in the cynical exercise which froze out Algeria . |
| 30 | On the one hand , Franco reiterated his belief that the common enemy was communism while , on the other , he insisted that the system he had instituted in Spain was neither Nazi nor fascist , but a unique and original synthesis which transcended both fascism and anti-fascism . |