Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the memorandum was written , serious concerns arose about whether the child 's interests would paramount . |
| 2 | You could not have called it grey , it was of some colour that had never been given a name , and it glowed as if the moon and stars were behind the skin of it , waiting to break through . |
| 3 | It has impressed but it has to have the right tools if it is going to provide the safety that councillor referred to and the saving of life which was referred to by councillor . |
| 4 | Burun gestured as if the matter was of little concern . |
| 5 | Yet he was such a skilful flyer that to an American of the Lafayette Squadron it seemed as if a plane obeyed his thoughts rather than the controls , and at Verdun alone he shot down six German aircraft and a balloon . |
| 6 | She spread hay over him for warmth , but it seemed as if the fever would shake him to pieces . |
| 7 | At the time it seemed as if the government had crushed the nationalist movement by locking up its leaders for life . |
| 8 | It seemed as if the Führer was right yet again , and that the end of the Russian campaign was only a few weeks away . |
| 9 | For a time it seemed as if the Everqueen of Avelorn was lost and the realm with her . |
| 10 | Then , just when Rachel was feeling she wanted it to go on forever , this exciting masquerade between the two of them where it seemed as if the rest of the world did n't exist , she found herself beside Danny who began stuttering and waving his arms , obviously trying to tell her something . |
| 11 | It seemed as if the phone itself was in paroxysm , all squawk and splat like a cabby 's radio . |
| 12 | It seemed as if the end of the world had come . |
| 13 | Surprisingly little drink was enough to intoxicate him but it seemed as if the wine released the power in him . |
| 14 | It seemed as if the woman in the adjacent chair had shuffled herself closer . |
| 15 | Not so long ago it seemed as if the world was to divide into three main trading blocks : the EC based around the West German economy ; a Northern American block based around the US-Canadian free trade area , and a Pacific unit incorporating the Asian tigers with Japan and the yen at the centre . |
| 16 | It seemed as if the world had stopped to listen . |
| 17 | Still looking down , it seemed as if the pattern of squares was moving . |
| 18 | At the end of September it seemed as if the monsoon was drawing to a close . |
| 19 | ‘ But truly , after Isabelle 's departure , it often seemed as if the family had been cursed . ’ |
| 20 | When the coin flipped over , it seemed as if the punishment would be never-ending . |
| 21 | He knew also which town he came from and the existence of a younger sister . |
| 22 | I was afraid to ask Mum any details of where babies came from and the word ‘ sex ’ was considered a dirty word in our house . |
| 23 | I never understood where all these squares of material came from because the demand was enormous ; to meet it the Madonna 's dress would have had to be changed almost every week . |
| 24 | Rimsky-Korsakov added an orchestral figure representing flames for the immolation of the Old Believers , and brought back the Preobazhensky March ; Shostakovich added to that a reminiscence of the Dawn music opening the opera ; and Stravinsky used the intended tune plus two more , giving the ending a much more positive and balanced view of the Old Believers as not regressive and obscurantist but charged with dignity and Christian endurance . |
| 25 | Peter Fallon , owner of the Gallery Press and Katherine 's literary agent , says of Dr Kavanagh : ‘ Because he 'd devoted certain energies to Patrick , he acted as if the man were entirely his . |
| 26 | This is brave talk after the event , but in 1981 the speaker certainly acted as if the president had a mandate , meekly conceding control over the timetable and repeatedly running up the white flag before crucial votes . |
| 27 | Alexei nodded as if the news pleased him . |
| 28 | Tyrell sighed as if the magnitude of human folly never failed to appal him . |
| 29 | And a friend in Scotland swears that he once heard a sermon preached on the wonders of creation in which the minister made much of the sanctity of the earthworm and even speculated on whether every earthworm is an individual . |
| 30 | But that can not be , mama , Anne protested as if the duchess had somehow been misinformed . |