Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young student at Bangor University made his first TV appearance with us . |
| 2 | Political Islam made its biggest splash not in the Middle East but in distant Algeria , and for reasons wholly unconnected with the Gulf war . |
| 3 | The invasion of the non-marine habitat probably first happened in the Carboniferous , but relatives of the living land snails are rare before the Cretaceous , at which time the familiar Helix made its first appearance . |
| 4 | Then a Professor of German Literature applied his literary mind to the Gospels and declared that they were a work of fiction and that Jesus had not actually existed ? |
| 5 | Clarkson 's narrative revealed his own perseverance and commitment until exhaustion and financial difficulty overtook him in 1794 and Hoare fastened upon Clarkson 's continuing ‘ zeal ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ After the birth Tony and I both felt very shaky and the midwife got us some tea right away , while they were tidying me up , just to calm us down . |
| 7 | Manville brooded morosely on this topic as the driver manipulated his four-wheeled war chariot in between the busy traffic of the four-lane highway . |
| 8 | Well I said to her er your mum asked me last night . |
| 9 | In 1988 the National Radiological Protection Board produced its first report commissioned by the government into whether there was any link . |
| 10 | A NEW service which is expected to encourage more travellers to switch from road to rail made its inaugural run into Middlesbrough station yesterday . |
| 11 | A NEW service which is A expected to encourage A more travellers to switch from road to rail made its inaugural run into Middlesbrough station yesterday . |
| 12 | The Colonel was not normally one whose nerve or self-confidence could be shaken by a comrade 's torment — he had seen too much and , besides , a soldier in the field made his own luck — but sitting now in the darkness , hardly aware of the familiar sounds of a barracks coming to life , the hollow ring of that dead voice seemed to re-echo in his ears . |
| 13 | In many ways , as the technology and its altering social relations became more general , new forms and new areas of experience made their own way into print . |
| 14 | Legislation to allow Nazi war criminals to be put on trial passed its first reading in the Commons . |
| 15 | In general the silent cinema made its greatest impact with adaptations of literary classics and , as we have seen , critics in 1914 thought that the films of John Barleycorn and The Jungle were in no way inferior to the original novels and felt in particular that the low-life settings were entirely convincing . |
| 16 | Many tears were shed , particularly by the younger ladies , while the Padre made his eloquent funeral oration after the midday service on Sunday the 12 July in the Residency cellars . |
| 17 | Each Board devised its own policy , sometimes offering developers incentives like free connection of a new housing estate if they installed electric cooking or water heating or an agreed minimum of sockets . |
| 18 | ( An influence on Leonard equal to that of A. M. Klein , also a lawyer , but more importantly a poet-novelist of considerable skill , whose familiarity with literature equalled his Jewish erudition and commitment unlike Leonard he was a ‘ ghetto ’ Jew of Montreal ) . |
| 19 | Just take a look got me little list knocking round . |
| 20 | The penny farthing made its first appearance in 1870 and was ridden round the world in 1884 . |
| 21 | His teaching found its fullest form in The Nature of the Atonement ( 1856 ) . |
| 22 | A lorry driver used his mobile phone to alert police , affter spotting that Walker was drinking from a half bottle of spirits . |
| 23 | Once uncomfortably aboard the wizard moved his white-knuckle grip to a convenient piece of harness and prodded K ! sdra lightly with the sword . |
| 24 | Five years ago DIP entered its second phase , thanks to the development of software that not only handled image storage and retrieval but actively managed the routing and movement of images around an organisation . |
| 25 | Their publication was a speculation which — so far as it made me known & procured me employment in Zoological drawing — answered my expectations — but in matters of money occasioned me considerable loss . |
| 26 | A BRUTE punished his four-year-old step-daughter by spinning her in a tumble-drier , a court heard yesterday . |
| 27 | The Marine clenched his own fist which seemed almost as large as any boy 's head , though this was not actually the case . |
| 28 | He is clearly desperate to fit in , something which turned the renovations into an architectural method trip , with the actor flying back from film shoots to hassle the builders about saving any historical detail they could , no matter how trivial , so that the building retained its local character . |
| 29 | This artistic contest dominated throughout Europe , especially in France and Germany , but it was in Italy that Romanticism found its closest identification with resurgent nationalism , in this case the Risorgimento . |
| 30 | The final seal of royal approval was given when the Prince built his own holiday retreat in Brighton . |