Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Pilkington dispute could not have been anticipated ( although there were issues that precipitated it — pay levels were perceived to be low and the initial walkout occurred over a wages error ) . |
| 2 | It meanwhile was still being printed letterpress and seemed more an arts magazine than a product of any new movement , and put together by amateurs with leather arm-patches on their tweed jackets . |
| 3 | In the deductive/empirical experiment , each child received either a questions task or a sentence completion task . |
| 4 | Although they are a principled pair — they once turned down the Smarties Award on moral grounds — the Ahlbergs reject the notion of children 's author as moralist . |
| 5 | ( Lionel Jospin , education minister and the titular number two in the government , turned down the social-affairs ministry for that very reason . ) |
| 6 | Surely the House acted wisely when hon. Members on both sides of the Chamber threw out the Shops Bill , which I considered to be a disgraceful piece of legislation . |
| 7 | Pictured left are Bill , his wife , the vehicles that made up the Antiques Roadshow and their energetic and skilful riders . |
| 8 | Most of the remaining paintwork was covered in CND symbols , as were most of the T-shirts , jeans , smock tops and even a couple of nappies which hung on a clothes line stretched between the bus and the fence . |
| 9 | One such grouping was led by Harry West and the West Ulster Unionist Council , which brought together the conservatives west of the Bann . |
| 10 | Formed in 1884 , the club took over the Rovers Cycling Club in Linthorpe Road . |
| 11 | Ever since I took over the tips section in the hallowed pages of ZZAP ! 64 , folks have whinged that most of the pokes are for Reset and Action Replay carts . |
| 12 | Aberdeen , the league leaders , are at home to Dundee United and Alex Smith , their manager , is contemplating ‘ at least one change ’ after last week 's defeat by Celtic which took away the points advantage they held over Rangers . |
| 13 | A dark figure took off a police helmet and wiped his brow . |
| 14 | If no one took up the rights issue , Corporate could end up with nearly 29 per cent of the shares , but a 20 per cent stake is more likely . |
| 15 | The Hon. Member for Dundee , East ( Mr. McAllion ) asked how the TOPS management committee was made up . |
| 16 | Shildon said he believed that , too , and asked how the police inquiry was going . |
| 17 | The show is organised by the same people who put on the Clothes Show and will have stands and information about all kinds of pet animals . |
| 18 | A court has heard how a father gunned down a drugs dealer who 'd been supplying his sons with cannabis . |
| 19 | A man who gunned down a drugs dealer who supplied his sons with cannibis , has been jailed for life . |
| 20 | Yeah , I went out yesterday morning and cleared up the dogs mess |
| 21 | Julia compared the food of the two parties and decided unhappily that she liked both the dish-of-herbs meal of this evening and also the elaborate deliciousness of avocado mousse , sole and boeuf en croûte of the previous day . |
| 22 | He totted up the figures night after night , and ‘ he would take that piece of paper out of his pocket and look at it again and again ’ . |
| 23 | Before leaving , Mrs de Pulford put forward the farmers point of view : |
| 24 | I had woken up as the ferry was docking , feeling bad-breathed and half drunk , and had walked off the ramp , shown my passport at customs and asked where the police station was . |
| 25 | More than once in cross-examination Miss Tucker said that she had since the police interview changed her statement , and had made ‘ a new one . ’ |
| 26 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 27 | But having let himself sink as far as he could go , he began to rise and with such gathering force and fury that he not only routed all who had disbelieved in him , he left even the believers agape . |
| 28 | The quick succession departure of both batsmen sparked off an Instonians landslide , with the last three wickets going down at 118 . |
| 29 | He ended up the Operations Officer . |
| 30 | Alternatively , set up a 24″ tank and grow Caulerpa separately . |