Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it was , it was Romana 's mum and dad , I think they owned that row of houses and the shop |
| 2 | More generally , colonial criminal law made little allowance for variations in caste status . |
| 3 | County cricket made little concession to spectators . |
| 4 | However , the two sides made little progress despite indications beforehand that relations were improving . |
| 5 | For most couples this made little difference in terms of tax actually paid , but , as feminists were quick to point out , it treated the wife as a dependant and not a separate entity . |
| 6 | Many of our studies and our own commentaries have in fact made little mention of children … |
| 7 | The plaintiffs gathered information as to the results of horse races from various courses and transmitted that information to subscribers on terms that it should be used only in the newspaper or posted only in the club , newsroom , office or other place to which it was delivered . |
| 8 | She and Bernard could come and go as they pleased , partly thanks to Ruby and Molly , two local women who kept Rhydoldog clean and checked each day for telexes which might announce the Ashley 's return , in which case the beds would be aired and food prepared . |
| 9 | Chained jungle-beasts , doubly confined within force fields , fought each other with horns , fangs and claws , sliding in pools of vermilion blood . |
| 10 | Bright flowers bloomed , were drowned with snow , then shoots of oak twisted into the new light , grew serenely upwards , fought each other like beasts , tentacles entwined , one overpowering its companions , crushing them , then looming large in Tallis 's view . |
| 11 | The great leap , however , took place long ago , round about 1930 , and private-eye stories have since produced progeny of their own , much as the detective story produced that chain of books culminating in the crime novel . |
| 12 | He passed this beam through holes in a rotating wheel , or oscillating miniature venetian blind , to chop it up or ‘ modulate ’ it . |
| 13 | Guards ' trial : Two Coldstream guardsmen were committed for trial at Teesside Crown Court when they made another appearance before magistrates in Whitby yesterday accused of a series of robberies while AWOL from their base in Germany . |
| 14 | father got another set of lights |
| 15 | She do n't pay me got another pack of peanuts so I have got a few that few , but you do n't need any old bag do you ? |
| 16 | Attendance officers were more active in towns and cities but , at least initially , met some resistance from parents . |
| 17 | They took a prominent part in the repulse of the Austrian attack in this sector in June 1918 , and countered this attack by raids on Austrian positions , in which they took several hundred prisoners . |
| 18 | The news came on the same day that the car makers Rover announced another year of losses . |
| 19 | I suspect that it is assumed by most people , including those who planned this course of lectures , that language is a means of communication — that this is what it is for ; and that since literature is made out of language , it too must be a kind of communication , as defined by , for instance , the Collins English Dictionary : ‘ the imparting or exchange of information , ideas , feelings ’ . |
| 20 | Mr Venables disagreed and made some claim about tastebuds and their ‘ overstimulation ’ . |
| 21 | The scanner produced this sequence of pictures showing the sea off the west coast of South America . |
| 22 | Gains made this week by abortion-rights groups in the Florida legislature , in governors ' races in New Jersey and Virginia , and in the House of Representatives have weighted the balance markedly toward the pro-abortion forces . |
| 23 | We 've been told if we go over the two pound , they wo n't sell , sell so well , erm , so really I 'm not too sure , but er , I , I can work on bigger , er , like I got this couple of days off living Manchester , I 'm sure if I approach erm , you know , the police , they might give me a couple of days selling out there . |
| 24 | Yes I got this pile of papers on the Wednesday . |
| 25 | Anyway he come down and he got this box with disks in |
| 26 | The reaction to Richardson can be attributed to three factors — a rumour that supposed friction between him and Jamaica 's Jeffrey Dujon led to Dujon 's omission from the World Cup ; another rumour that Richardson passed some remark about Jamaicans after the Dujon affair ; and that Richardson described the historic World Cup encounter with South Africa as ‘ just another cricket match ’ . |
| 27 | Their policies drew little disapproval from sports authorities or the rest of the white population . |
| 28 | Corbett went up the great steps of the hospital , past the group of old soldiers , their limbs grotesquely amputated , who enlivened each other with stories of their past . |
| 29 | Randles , for example , found that while for observations of UAPs the average number of witnesses per sighting was about 2.6 , this number fell dramatically for abductions to an average of only 1.3 . |
| 30 | In 1914 George Saintsbury in his contribution to the Cambridge History of English Literature lamented that Leapor among others had sunken into ‘ absolute forgetfulness ’ . |