Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After initially welcoming this movement , Plekhanov , Lenin and other ‘ orthodox ’ Social Democrats became afraid that concentration on immediate economic goals might lead the emergent labour movement to become preoccupied with merely economic rather than political goals . |
| 2 | It soon became clear that breach of confidence was actionable per se , and did not require a contractual relationship between the parties . |
| 3 | He found little but evidence of a funeral pyre , and his impression was that a person of importance was cremated here and his ashes carried home to Rome . |
| 4 | International : Arafat found safe after crash-landing in Sahara PLO seeks American assistance in hunt for lost leader , as 6,000 troops scour sandstorm-swept Libyan desert for missing plane |
| 5 | The napkin now weighed heavy as death in my hands . |
| 6 | Meanwhile the breakaway Glina assembly , comprising half the Krajina deputies , on Feb. 16 dismissed Babic as president of Krajina and commander of its armed forces , rejected his referendum proposal and relieved the Krajina government of its duties . |
| 7 | I tell you , I 've had Sound Citys , which were garbage , Marshall , which I found unreliable and kind of loud , Roland Jazz Chorus 120s — I 've used those live with the distortion button turned on — and I had a Music Man amp for a while . |
| 8 | This Northern Rebellion soured any possibility of Mary ever being trusted by her cousin Elizabeth , and spelt little but trouble for the always uneasy Border . |
| 9 | Those that received pre-exposure and conditioning in the same context acquired the CR slowly ( i.e. showed latent inhibition ) ; those that experienced a change of context from exposure to conditioning learned as readily as the control subjects . |
| 10 | It was decided not to try to smuggle Hess out on the courier run , although the idea of making him do a parachute drop at his age seemed risky and wrong-headed to the Englishman , if not malicious . |
| 11 | It seemed inevitable that application for export licences would be made for most of these , given the unlikelihood of purchase within Britain . |
| 12 | Almost six feet eight inches ( 2 metres ) tall , he seemed larger than life in most of his actions , blond , handsome , with great charisma that was much better suited to the Test arena than to the county grind ; a Test batting average of 40 compared to a career average of 31 shows this perfectly . |
| 13 | Then I darted breathless and sodden into the first hotel I came to . |
| 14 | He beat out ten minutes of pain-filled , throbbing rhythm , sometimes accompanied by low , anguished singing , before Doris came stamping and peg up the stairs and banged on his door and told him to stop it at once . |
| 15 | Meanwhile the eggs hatched , became free-swimming and food for the other tank inhabitants . |
| 16 | He bent to take her mouth , but with the very last vestige of control she turned her face away so that his lips skimmed hard and firm along the line of her jaw . |
| 17 | Oliver 's mouth opened wide and square in a terrible howl . |
| 18 | She followed a makeshift , stepping-stone path , through a rapidly deepening quagmire of mud which led to the front door , and knocked loud and firm upon the solid oak panels . |
| 19 | Later she taught English and history at Putney High School , and before marriage published a book about Lamb 's Essays of Elia and another book about a play by Browning . |
| 20 | Her earliest years were spent in England , away from her mother , who was forced to make her living in Russia , where she taught French and piano to the children of Leo Tolstoy . |
| 21 | The young architect , who served part-time as alderman in charge of town planning , had indeed been interrupted at his supper , accepted a cigar and a light from the Substitute before beginning to explain . |
| 22 | Benny waved Ace and Petion to a halt as the sound of footsteps approached . |
| 23 | Chung found that only 7% of the mispricing signals indicated an underpricing of the future , and he interpreted this as evidence against the presence of a tax timing option ( see Section 5.3.4 ) , which would lead to an increase in the number of underpricings . |
| 24 | To men who lived on what they could pick up from articles and reviews , the ultimate weapon implied more than lack of a showcase : it implied starvation … |
| 25 | As the first set of declaration reports were produced , it became apparent that development within the zones would not be significantly different from what would have occurred anyway ( Corby District Council , 1981 ; Newcastle upon Tyne , 1981 ; Swansea City Council , 1981 ) : planning controls were often retained along zone boundaries ; Special Industrial Uses , including noxious and dangerous processes , were still subject to control ; and , on occasion , environmental improvements were written into declaration reports . |
| 26 | Soon after they moved in to Hamilton Terrace it became apparent that association with Minton brought out the petulant , fussy side of Vaughan . |
| 27 | She washed spiders down the plughole , and felt guilty as hell about it . |
| 28 | He died intestate and administration of his estate was granted to his son John , 23 December 1651 in London . |
| 29 | The afterlife was imagined as continuing an existence on earth , as becoming one of the imperishable starts , as travelling through the Underworld with Osiris , a realm to which Re brought light and joy at night . |
| 30 | The darker skin of his thin muscled slightly furry thigh lay hard and firm on the pearly white sheen of the round of her hip , and his desire was stronger than before , but his cock was nowhere . |