Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The white-bearded campaigner prided himself on blunt , outspoken views . |
| 2 | Mr Brown is parading this tacit Jackson support in an effort to draw blacks away from Mr Bill Clinton , the Democrats ' front-runner whose solid black support helped him to big victories in the South and Mid-West . |
| 3 | Beatrice was married now , with a family of her own , and because times were hard her sister helped her with surreptitious gifts of money ; and with clothes , toys , and treats for the children . |
| 4 | JIM COURIER redeemed himself for past Davis Cup failures by beating Switzerland 's Jakob Hlasek in Fort Worth , Texas last night to clinch the Cup for the United States for the 30th time since 1900 . |
| 5 | We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | His secrecy about his unhappiness made everything about daily life seem a little counterfeit , apart from meals with Sam and sprees with him at the pictures . |
| 7 | His mouth met hers with bruising force , and the clamour inside her head rose to a deafening crescendo , the world twisted and turned , tossing her adrift with the turbulence of a whirlwind . |
| 8 | The Mayor rebuked him in warm terms , whereupon the elegant creature said , hotly : ‘ Who are you to talk to me like that ? ’ |
| 9 | Indeed for a number of meetings there was an exchange of views about education , training and industry and increasing concern about whether partnership added anything to previous links , replaced them , or was simply another talking shop . |
| 10 | It has now been decided to write to Rangers asking for their views on statements attributed to the three men since Ferguson 's club dropped him for disciplinary reasons , after which it came to light that Murray had spoken to United 's manager/chairman , Jim Mclean , about buying the Scotland internationalist . |
| 11 | I put on my coat and we went out to where the wind welcomed us with savage glee . |
| 12 | The radicalism of his campaign for state investment owed nothing to latent dissent over economic theory , for neo-classical economics could accommodate public works and Keynes himself remained on orthodox disciple of Marshall . |
| 13 | His apprenticeship took him through various parts of the motor car division until the outbreak of war , when he was transferred to the aviation side to make crankshafts and camshafts for Merlin engines . |
| 14 | But Christine , 37 , insisted on going home for a snack before an ambulance took her to Royal Hallamshire hospital . |
| 15 | Plans for their future brought them into political contact with enemies of the ninth electorate which led first to the secret murder of Königsmarck in 1694 , with the connivance of Ernst August , and later to Sophia Dorothea 's confinement in her father 's keeping at the palace of Ahlden , following her divorce from Georg Ludwig in 1694 , which carried the rider that she could not remarry . |
| 16 | A Classification Research Group of the Library Association formed itself with great hopes of constructing the ultimate universal scheme which could be adopted by all libraries . |
| 17 | Almost a year after his ‘ There 's Nothing Like This ’ hit single and reactivated album put him on first-name terms with the British public , Omar Lye-Kook is still based in north London , operating out of his father 's tiny Kongo Dance offices and recording down the road in Willesden . |
| 18 | His great horse earned it with apparent ease — but lost 29lb in the process and came home to Ballydoyle more exhausted than after any of his previous races . |
| 19 | Fear wound itself like clammy tentacles around her heart and slithered along her veins . |
| 20 | What gave rise to the protest of the intelligentsia , and what lay behind the revolutionary protest of its extreme wing , was the lack of opportunity afforded them by tsarist society . |
| 21 | This decision filled her with profound gloom ; not only because her home had been so special and so very much loved , but also because the selling of Rose Cottage could do nothing but plunge her into financial disaster . |
| 22 | A thin disdainful blonde girl led me up narrow stairs to a room filled completely by a single bed . |
| 23 | His gaze pierced her like cold steel . |
| 24 | By the summer of 1925 his growing disillusionment manifested itself in ceaseless role-playing , posing , self-interrogation . |
| 25 | As so often in the past , Our Lady blessed us with fine weather so that were able to hold our group procession on Wednesday morning , carrying her statue along the holy mile to the Shrine , singing hymns and reciting the Rosary . |
| 26 | But the last unspoken question consumed her with fresh guilt . |
| 27 | The youngster addressed him with condescending friendliness , and got a morose answer . |
| 28 | The guard examined it in close detail , checking off the listed physical peculiarities . |
| 29 | If the public acceptance of psychoanalysis meant anything for secondary selection it did mean that the scientificity of any description of the mind became more suspect — its subjectivity more evident . |
| 30 | ‘ Some ghastly little girl accused her of lesbian advances . ’ |