Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , just as the falls are important to Schaffhausen 's expanding tourist industry , so energetically fostered by a lively local tourist office , so they helped lay the first foundations of prosperity hundreds of years ago . |
| 2 | Once I 'd accomplished the first stages of training , getting her to sit still on my fist , I had to move on to the next stage : getting her to feed there . |
| 3 | He 'd spoken the last words in Italian , and in Italian as fluent and colloquial as his own she answered , ‘ I 'm sorry about that . |
| 4 | She 'd tacked the first sketches for this picture up on the wall and they looked as if someone else had drawn them . |
| 5 | As they reached the trees they heard a wild burst of cheering and turned to see the first tongues of flame licking up the walls of the cainca . |
| 6 | When a priest arrived to administer the last rites , Mansell sent him away . |
| 7 | It was during the next 8 years that he began to experience the first stirrings of an interest destined to change his life beyond all imaginings . |
| 8 | Despite announcing the projected two-year trip to the southern hemisphere expressly for this purpose , Gould began to publish the first parts of his Birds of Australia before he had even left . |
| 9 | So we 've got , I did have the first names somewhere . |
| 10 | The long credit that the Dutch had given the first planters to get them started in Barbados in the 1640s came to an end with the Dutch war of the 1650s , which made it harder for English planters to finance development when they wanted to grow sugar in Jamaica . |
| 11 | He had joined the 95th Rifles and later commanded the red-coated Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers . |
| 12 | " I was tip nearly all night because I had to lead the first devotions at the High Council , with all those experienced and senior leaders of the Army world . " |
| 13 | There is no space to go into detail about the ding-dong and the relevance of that remark , but it is gentlemanly mayhem at its best and I wish I had seen the first encounters between the CSIRO and its critic , who , I infer , also had a go at the research on skeleton weed . |
| 14 | She remembered the bride of one year , alight with the happiness of those early celebrations when the Grand Duke had granted the first liberties , and thought how strange it was for an English woman to be so mad with joy . |
| 15 | The King had ridden everywhere that autumn , but he had spent longest with Thor and Dunegal and Leofwine in Cumbria , where he had gleaned the first tidings of Duke William 's victory against his rebel kinsmen . |
| 16 | He had performed the last rites earlier , when Patrick was at least half aware , and perhaps even knew what was happening and assented to it . |
| 17 | Despite the increasing difficulties which Edward faced in financing his wars in Scotland , the parliaments of these years are free of the political and constitutional arguments which had characterized the last years of Edward I 's reign . |
| 18 | The battles between Fascists and the Left which began in 1934 looked superficially like those which had marked the last years of the Weimar republic . |
| 19 | Viscount Melbourne became Prime Minister in July 1835 , but by the end of that year , it was necessary for the Duke of Wellington to become Prime Minister for a short period , followed for about one year by Sir Robert Peel , who had been Home Secretary and had introduced the first Police Force , enrolling men who soon became known as ‘ Peelers ’ or ‘ Bobbies ’ , after the founder . |
| 20 | And now , Isabel had spoken the first words for a day or more , only to make them aggrieved , angry words , and incomprehensible too . |
| 21 | I really did n't intend to join this regiment , in fact I was making efforts to rejoin the Yeomanry , who are out here [ his former regiment had landed in Algeria as part of the 6th Armoured Division in the First Army and had supported the 1st Guards Brigade in the battle for Tunis ] , but the C.O. of this regiment chose me by interview and I had to go , being only a very small cog in the wheels of war . |
| 22 | She sat down on her suitcases and howled , feeling that he had swept the last traces of her personality out in the dustpan too . |
| 23 | Now that she had taken the first steps , she was not so much afraid . |
| 24 | On his return in mid-December all his colleagues had felt encouraged by the Prime Minister 's buoyancy ; he had conducted the last debates with all his old skill and command of the House . |
| 25 | AN MP last night called for a Government review of the jury system in Northern Ireland after an inquest failed to decide who had fired the first shots in a gun battle in which three Irish Republican Army men died . |
| 26 | We reached the yard and stood watching the last preparations as usual . |