Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] [noun pl] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought of the shoppers ’ day trips to Northern Ireland in search of cheap goods , and tried enumerating the benefits Ireland might receive from a Reunion with the rest of Britain . |
| 2 | On our way home we tried to find a Mothers Day card for Mark to send to his Mum , but I think all the Dalseattie shops must have the same supplier and sell those ghastly pink-ish cards with really crass ditties inside ugh . |
| 3 | I tried to explore the problems Mrs Singh would have in attempting to be a fully participating parent but the educational psychologist seemed to feel that this was a problem common to many Cedars parents . |
| 4 | We 'd known more or less since I 'd heard the words Jihad Islami in the Land of Grey and Pink , but they 'd never actually said it . |
| 5 | When the time came to greet the newly-weds Prince Napoleon bowed to the Emperor but pointedly ignored the Empress , while Prince Pierre Bonaparte saluted neither the one nor the other . |
| 6 | Like a robot she 'd made the calls Steve should have made and the rest of the time she had walked the city , trying to be a tourist taking in all the sights . |
| 7 | As a boy raced to take the ropes Penry flung out , Leonora began to breathe more easily again , her pulse-rate calming as she felt the usual shamed reaction to terror once safety was assured . |
| 8 | Mr Brown alleged that Grugel twice asked plasterer Peter McCabe for some plaster boards and when he threatened to tell the police Grugel assaulted him , causing a laceration above his eyebrow which needed hospital treatment . |
| 9 | When Carco called to see the paintings Zborowski ran to buy a candle , stuck it into the neck of a bottle , then showed Carco into a narrow , unfurnished room where a stack of Modigliani 's canvases stood in the corner . |
| 10 | Since he started selling the devices Mr Tudor says he has been inundated with orders . |
| 11 | Bewilderedly she struggled to remember the words Guy had been muttering , but they had been lost in the half-sleeping state which had dulled her mind , and , later , barely heard over the unfamiliar demands of newly awakened desire . |
| 12 | So of course I , took me about half hour to find the forklift cos somebody had nicked it by time I went got the chemicals Robin comes down , he said oh do n't worry about he said do i do it tomorrow morning he said , they 'll be nobody about then can you go down the bot bottom and do the butterflies ? |
| 13 | He was the one who went to hear the Brothers Hamburg . |
| 14 | In the time it took to negotiate the funds Rothmans came to an arrangement with Sedgefield . ’ |
| 15 | Often , he had to hide the marks Gina had given him from his pupils . |
| 16 | A furious John Major hit back by telling MPs that his government had done the things Mr Lawson had wanted but failed to do . |
| 17 | When Beverley , who had written the hits Boeing Boeing and Half A Sixpence , suggested that what Ken really needed was a good holiday , the two of them took off together for Greece . |
| 18 | It has joined forces with DeskStation Technology Inc and OPTi Inc to create the R4000PC RISCNT chip set and combine it with the OPTi 486EISAWB chip set to create a Windows NT desktop personal computer . |
| 19 | I wanted to do the things John and I had looked forward to a year and a half ago , to travel as we had planned , to work abroad , have a family before too long . |