Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 2 | Chapman & Hall made him some compensation through extra payments for Pickwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby , and by making loans and advances . |
| 3 | On the other hand , even those who listened with loathing or contempt found it easier to have a real man with whom the sneering drawl could at last be identified . |
| 4 | We recruited a team of twenty-five young executives whose firms or colleagues gave them three weeks paid leave for the election campaign . |
| 5 | Neither the General nor Bill gave me any hint of lolly . ’ |
| 6 | It found support in the professional and middle classes , and Treitschke gave it intellectual respectability . |
| 7 | Only one of our teams was in action at the weekend , and Hereford did us proud by winning at Scunthorpe . |
| 8 | Gar-vey added the second and Macauley made it three from Hignett 's cross . |
| 9 | Then Maeve hugged their surviving son , five-year-old John , and Garry gave him three loving kisses . |
| 10 | Such was their anxiety during the two days that were left before the exam results were due that Mona and Sheila found it hard to eat or sleep . |
| 11 | The courts of law , they argued , are procedurally ill-equipped for this task since their formality , cost , speed , and complexity made them inaccessible to , or intimidating for , the ordinary citizen . |
| 12 | The pope 's ardent desire for clarification and decision made it possible for judges to be used who were not always the bishops , in close contact with Rome , but abbots and other ecclesiastical officials . |
| 13 | The nickname had been coined by Hauser himself and Carver found it childish . |
| 14 | This was because the terms of the contract between seller and buyer made it clear that the buyer in re-selling the goods was doing so , not for his own account , but as agent for , and on account of , the seller . |
| 15 | Poulson and Associates made it clear that they were not a ‘ financial development company ’ but that they could locate a suitable such investor for the scheme . |
| 16 | But here 's Rozario Gemmell Black Pearce is up in support but he goes for the long ball in and Hill met it first . |
| 17 | Applied to the artists showing at Brussels , the term could have no very definite meaning , and Apollinaire found it hard to identify many specific characteristics shared by the painters , or even to distinguish Cubism from Fauvism : ‘ One feature unites them , for if the principal merit of the painters who have been called the Fauves was the return to fundamental principles as far as colour and composition are concerned , the Cubists , in order to extend yet further the province of an art thus renewed , have sought to return to basic principles of drawing and inspiration . |
| 18 | Opponents of the idea that the management of education and training can benefit from the lessons of business and industry found it ironic that the messages which were put out in the two documents criticized weaknesses in the world of employers rather than of educators . |
| 19 | By-employments such as basket-making , hemp-dressing and wild-fowling gave them additional security . |
| 20 | Mr Edgar refused at first , and Linton sent him several more letters . |
| 21 | Appalled , Ramsay and Moray heard it all . |
| 22 | When we did the rehearsal again and Steven got it right I asked myself , has he played this scene before ? |
| 23 | Roman ladies liked to sleep with their pearls and Caligula thought them worthy to decorate his favourite horse . |
| 24 | ‘ And Fitzormonde told you all ? ’ |
| 25 | He may have been looking a bit weary , but he was doing a splendid linking job and Whitton found it hard fill the gap . |
| 26 | Mr Crump was alarmed ; Mrs Crump leaned forward on her toes to increase her disappointing height and to reach forward to this man whose every title and reference made him more and more desirable . |
| 27 | After a while he seemed to relax and Tallis prompted him further . |
| 28 | Chiddingfold continued to dominate and Judge made it four following a corner . |
| 29 | But by 1870 even larger ships and cargoes made it necessary to create a new port , or outport , at Avonmouth . |
| 30 | I 'd spent most of it with the other two , one bad and the other indifferent , now I 'd come across a good one and fate gave us four years together , that 's all . |