Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they grew up and went off into the wild I suffered dreadful pangs . |
| 2 | ‘ If that was the case I found great difficulty in seeing how he could get permission from my local authority to license me , ’ he said . |
| 3 | In this particular case I used wild roses , plus their buds and leaves . |
| 4 | ‘ Despite my close relationship with Sonauto I had solid contacts with Honda and I remember the problems I brought on myself . ’ |
| 5 | We then found that we did n't have enough cash to pay the landing fees , and in response I offered Portuguese escudos , converting at the rate in the newspaper . |
| 6 | To see if topical streptokinase , as in ‘ Varidase ’ ( streptokinase and streptodornase ) could be absorbed from a wound site and produce a similar response I measured anti-streptokinase titres in patients with wounds . |
| 7 | In my early struggling days as a writer I spent occasional days as a film extra . |
| 8 | Anyway , in that desolate chamber at Sheen I removed soft buskins from the corpse 's feet , carefully pushing back the blue robe and the white cotton shift beneath . |
| 9 | In the last chapter I outlined certain similarities between karate competition and boxing . |
| 10 | So after I finished Sleeping With The Enemy I walked Pennine Way to release all the pent-up aggression and that helped , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Brett parted with Boris Becker after a fruitful association which brought Grand Slam triumphs , including Wimbledon , with the German superstar saying : ‘ Bob needs a new challenge . ’ |
| 12 | It was he who helped to have removed those lines in the inscription on the Monument which accused Roman Catholics of starting the Great Fire of London . |
| 13 | The contest which followed involved parents , the school managers and their headmistress , and eventually implicated the local and central state . |
| 14 | In the five days of violence which resulted official estimates suggested that at least 30 people died ( including one MP ) and several hundred were injured . |
| 15 | After this assault Mosley reputedly was forced to discipline his own followers in order to maintain order in the BUF , and to discourage further acts of violence which invited retaliatory action by the authorities . |
| 16 | For the first time he met , peeping above the surface , the force of a prejudice which had unrelenting ferocity . |
| 17 | When the twelfth-century bard , Cynddelw , recalled ‘ the clash of Powys … with Oswald ’ , he was looking back on an episode which had considerable significance not only for the Welsh but also for the Mercians . |
| 18 | An episode which attracted particular concern was a strike that occurred at an obscure photo-processing plant in North London , the Grunwick works . |
| 19 | The death of Earl Patrick of Salisbury was still an episode which aroused harsh feelings on both sides . |
| 20 | The Act was hurriedly drawn up in response to quickening deforestation which included new roads being driven into virgin wilderness . |
| 21 | This rather lethargic spell by both teams was characterised by accurate drawing which produced tight heads but very little fire . |
| 22 | The facts involved the sale of a second-hand Mercedes car which developed unusual faults requiring repair for a Mercedes of that age and mileage . |
| 23 | The heroic social-realist work was commissioned by the Works Progress Administration , a federal programme which hired unemployed artists in the 1930s . |
| 24 | The Ukraine called for the shutting down of all the reactors at the Chernobyl site in 1990 and urged that greater consideration be given to a new energy programme which eliminated nuclear power . |
| 25 | At a party congress of the DBP on Jan. 27 delegates representing 117,000 members ( 7,000 fewer than in October 1989 ) approved an electoral programme which included continued support for co-operative and state ownership of farms . |
| 26 | The DP , founded in December 1990 [ see p. 37924 ] with a programme which included private land ownership and the depoliticization of the army , received most attention from the foreign media . |
| 27 | In 1912 he was a founder of the Independent Labour Party of Ireland , forerunner of the Irish Labour Party , and proposed in the Irish Worker a political programme which included proportional representation and women 's suffrage . |
| 28 | The new regime ruthlessly crushed all semblance of armed opposition which threatened national unity . |
| 29 | Mrs Eckersley had also given Joyce the telephone number of a German Foreign Office department which required English translators . |
| 30 | laissez-faire — in 1966 Griffith cited the Ministry of Health as a department which exercised minimum intervention . |