Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 2 | He walked around the stage , perfecting his stunts , or just slept in his dressing-room or paced the empty corridors . |
| 3 | And er when it come to a vote to try and get anything passed or changed the wee branches were solid voting for the national agreement . |
| 4 | Wine was decanted against the flame of a candle , and pouring would be stopped as soon as the wine started to get cloudy or showed the first signs of deposit . |
| 5 | Turning now to those carers who said in their first interview that they wanted their relative to remain at home , one would expect that those in the action sample would be more likely to have retained that preference than those in the control sample ( assuming that the project has provided extra home care when needed and therefore indirectly or directly assisted or relieved the principal carers ) . |
| 6 | No one impeded or questioned the two fugitives . |
| 7 | Or did the partial substitutions usually fail causing dead-ends in the lattice ? |
| 8 | Or did the white men vanish from the tribe 's memory as completely as the tribe vanished for the white man ? |
| 9 | The internal contradictions of Polish society were revealed by external invasion , and — particularly in Pomerania and Danzig — people who felt themselves to be marginal to Polish life either succumbed slowly and reluctantly or embraced the new identities on offer with enthusiasm . |
| 10 | Course then he finished , they finished dredging at night on , at nineteen thirty two cos they said it was costing too much the did and erm they were building some new cranes down there , so I said to my father , and he was very friendly with the Harbourmaster , he said erm was there any chance of getting one of them cranes so when he went and saw the Harbourmaster he said no he said the boy do n't know nothing about electricity either so he said no nor did no other buggers he said they did n't know anything about it so he got the job . |
| 11 | Nor did the other women seem to be responding quite as she expected . |
| 12 | Nor did the other guests seem to suspect anything . |
| 13 | Nor did the post-war trends happen at the same rate in every medium . |
| 14 | Nor did the classical elitists provide easily testable propositions , or systematic empirical refutations of Marxism compatible with rigorous positivism . |
| 15 | The heavens did n't weep above his head , nor did the fat-cheeked clouds assume sneers of calamity . |
| 16 | Lukács neither studied class consciousness empirically nor considered the structural constraints on its development ; stratification within the working class , the social reproduction of the labour force and the political legitimation of capitalist domination ( Frisby 1983 : 93 ) . |
| 17 | Lady Luck descended on her golden kangaroo , waved her eighteen carat boomerang and whispered the magic words . |
| 18 | Later , as night crept over the Rorim , they met in Riven 's room and shared a few pitchers of ale . |
| 19 | I went back to the Maggot 's foul house , where he kept his killer dog and astonishing collection of guns , and we sat on his makeshift verandah that overlooked a noxious and polluted creek and shared a few whiskies as he told me an incredibly tedious tale of how he had once sacked the quarterback of the San Francisco Sugar Plums . |
| 20 | During World War Two , the fortunes of those two bomber squadrons bore striking similarities , they arrived together in 1943 and left together in 1945 , they flew the same type of aircraft , Halifax and Lancaster , and shared the same operations . |
| 21 | Previous losses have fallen heavily on members of some syndicates , giving rise to claims that insiders have diverted the best business to selected syndicates and channelled the higher risks and charges to ‘ dustbin ’ syndicates , with a high proportion of investors with little or no knowledge of the business . |
| 22 | On their return they received names in recognition of their war service , ‘ Maude ’ being named after Lt Gen Sir Stanley Maude , who revived the faltering campaign against the Turks in Mesopotamia and led the British forces into Baghdad in March , 1917 . |
| 23 | Santerre sounded the horn and led the excited hunters down the hill . |
| 24 | Frowning , for he was fastidious in all his personal habits , he picked it up between thumb and index finger , deposited it on his plate and wiped the soiled fingers on his napkin . |
| 25 | It asserted the need for social reform within a broad imperial policy and attacked the official leaders of the Labour movement for their failure to dissociate themselves from pacifists and militants . |
| 26 | Kathleen answered the phone , listened for a minute and asked a few questions , and then cradled the receiver with a groan . |
| 27 | He came down looking rather puzzled , and asked the two ladies to see the boy with him . |
| 28 | He had an assertive , competitive manner and asked the right questions . |
| 29 | By the time you have dictated the brief and asked the relevant questions you will have started to form some idea of the answers . |
| 30 | The uniformed guard , who wishes to be known only as John , approached the car and asked the three youths inside to leave . |