Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means around 24 million current account holders would have to pay a fee every time they drew a cheque or used a hole-in-the-wall cash machine . |
| 2 | None of the patients in either group had severe colitis at entry or developed a severe flare during the study . |
| 3 | ‘ All we do know , ’ he concluded , ‘ is that the assassin must have been a member of the community at the Tower who knew Sir Ralph had changed his bed chamber , and he or she either committed the murder or hired a professional assassin to do it for them . ’ |
| 4 | His name was Joe Jack , and after my first visit I went back many times to hear him talk as he carved out the shape of a leather sole or polished a repaired shoe on his rotary machine . |
| 5 | She pulled hard on the wheel and took the left fork . |
| 6 | A young lad hopped from car to car taking their money , lights sparked and flashed above them and as the cars began to move Belinda 's laugh could be heard above the music while Rachel thought Danny would explode with pride as he took the wheel and manoeuvred the little car round the track . |
| 7 | The girl smiled shyly up at the big man behind the wheel and got a friendly grin in return . |
| 8 | Curtis settled himself behind the wheel and laid the empty can on the passenger seat . |
| 9 | All thirteen LEAs in the region served by the District were represented on the Council together with the University , the WEA , the YMCA and the Educational Settlements Association and formed the first consultative body of its kind in the country . |
| 10 | The trip was arranged by the Musselburgh Twinning Association and followed a similar exchange last year when seven teachers from Musselburgh and Wallyford went to France . |
| 11 | Porsche engineers have overthrown conventional thinking and built an all-wheel drive car to shake the world : the 911 Carrera 4 . |
| 12 | They felt no grief and experienced no real sense of loss . |
| 13 | She was born of noble stock and loved the old genteel way of life , and the people of the village loved her . |
| 14 | He went into an off-licence and bought a large bottle of Bell 's . |
| 15 | As a patient bandaged from head to foot , Crawford had to deliver only one line , but he forgot it , lifted the bed sheet to look down at a prompt card and uttered the immortal words , ‘ Have you seen this , nurse ? ’ |
| 16 | … it was very odd that they got the money in the first place … however they had thought a great deal and had a viable project … and may be a certain amount of guilt . |
| 17 | He stuck his arm out of the open side of the jeep and stamped a big boot on the brake . |
| 18 | Encouraged by the finding of this tiny coin , I turned my attention to the second side of the pond and began the same operation along its full length . |
| 19 | In the political sphere , some embraced accidentalism and employed the social organizations of Catholicism in order to defend themselves . |
| 20 | Two and a half years later he was a four-handicapper , but then he broke his leg in two places playing football and missed a whole season . |
| 21 | Two and a half years later he was a four-handicapper , but then he broke his leg in two places playing football and missed a whole season . |
| 22 | We lost the toss in a 30-over contest and spent an undignified two hours being peppered by Antigua 's formidable array of fast bowlers on a ‘ flying ’ ( if you know what I mean ) . |
| 23 | In line with the recent economic policies of the Mahathir government , the NDP pledged liberal incentives for foreign investment and stressed the vital role to be played by the private sector . |
| 24 | It had made an investment and wanted a quick return , and more . |
| 25 | On the defendant 's appeal , the Court of Appeal held that if the mother 's signature on the transfer was a forgery , the register could be rectified under section 82 of the Land Registration Act 1925not only against C. and D. but also against the building society , set aside the order for possession against the defendant and ordered a new trial to determine the facts regarding the execution of the transfer . |
| 26 | The coroner gently pushed the keeper out before him , took , out his purse and clinked a few coins into his hand . |
| 27 | In the old days we got on with the job , jollied staff along if they needed it , kicked the sluggards in the backside , encouraged the unconfident and persuaded a reluctant and sceptical police force to use us . |
| 28 | With those I returned at speed to the boathouse and attacked the lower door , first hammering the toe of the tyre lever into a nonexistent crack between the wooden door frame and the surrounding brickwork at a level just below the keyhole , then bashing the far end of that iron , to put heavy leverage against the door frame , then wrenching out the lever and repeating the whole process above the lock , this time with fury . |
| 29 | Eventually , someone broke one of the windows in the lavatory and hurled a large piece of glass onstage at Vega and after only three songs , he left the stage . |
| 30 | Eventually , someone broke one of the windows in the lavatory and hurled a large piece of glass onstage at Vega and after only three songs , he left the stage . |