Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rostov met the accusing eyes squarely , then he shrugged . |
| 2 | I applied the same methods here , watching people rather than talking to them , and I learnt many new things about the way humans interact . |
| 3 | ‘ They made the usual checks then , because I was allowed to go back at any time if there was a problem , they let me go home . |
| 4 | She made the pre-canoe instructions absolutely hilarious , not to mention informative . |
| 5 | Miss Murdock , who appears to have had a sense of humour , expressed her high regard for the autochrome process , the delights of which she said , were mainly due to the high number of failures that made the occasional successes all the more thrilling . |
| 6 | It resembles the pictures of dancers frozen for all time by the potters who made the Greek vases just to display their feats . |
| 7 | For today 's kites have one unique quality which made the old ones so tiresome to fly . |
| 8 | He read the personal notes again , and this time he raised an eyebrow . |
| 9 | She fingered the envelope in her pocket , drew it out , read the brief lines again without seeing . |
| 10 | Sitting alone at her kitchen table , Kelly read the last words ever written by her father . |
| 11 | As he laid the two pictures aside with the first one he felt that it was a farewell — a farewell to his youth , his youth and the greatest happiness that this youth had given him . |
| 12 | The uniformed guard , who wishes to be known only as John , approached the car and asked the three youths inside to leave . |
| 13 | He took out the letter and scanned the final lines again . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , in North America , the orogeny which produced the Appalachian structures probably did not reach its climax until the end of the Permian . |
| 15 | He got the facial resemblances easily enough , having a certain gift for hazy romantic portraiture . |
| 16 | ‘ The game was well balanced at half-time , but Ireland got the crucial scores immediately after half-time . |
| 17 | Dušan withstood the eastern invaders both in 1345 and 1349 , but within thirty years of his death in 1355 most of his empire had been overrun by the Turks and Serbia awaited the coup de grâce , which came in 1389 with the defeat of Prince Lazar at Kosovo Polje . |
| 18 | The Pharaonic monuments , solidly constructed from massive blocks , withstood the seismic shocks far better than later buildings . |
| 19 | The George was busy with the stagecoach passengers , two of whom had gone in to bait , the others walking about to stretch their limbs while the ostlers led the exhausted cattle away and brought out a fresh team . |
| 20 | After a buffet lunch with various head office guests , Mike Bloy and Morton Henderson led a discussion and syndicate session entitled Managing People Through Change which analysed the various factors both physical and emotional that the modern manager must be aware of in order to react and communicate in a positive and constructive way . |
| 21 | ( 1983 ) analysed the 120 sites individually with five or more years of data between 1956 and 1976 , only 29 showed a significant trend of increasing annual average rainfall acidity and five showed a decrease . |
| 22 | Willie drew the two lines again and , while carefully scrutinizing the new word , copied it . |
| 23 | Often , it is true , the commissioners drew the new boundaries so as to come to a point in the village where the ancient homestead lay , so that the farmer need not be disturbed from his old home . |
| 24 | They formed a strand in the cultural tradition which drew the different peoples together in the formation of the Yugoslav Movement of the early nineteenth century . |
| 25 | But behind this there lies a period , obscurely documented , in which there was far greater freedom and equality among the cities — an era brought to a sharp end by the threat of foreign conquest , which drew the Greek cities together in heroic resistance to the Persian invaders — and thus began the process which ended in the effective dominance of Sparta and Athens over their neighbours . |
| 26 | It 's interesting to compare these men with those who entered the sexual lists unusually late ( after the age of 20 ) or with Mr Average ( the 54% of the men in our sample who entered the sexual lists between the ages of 16 and 19 ) . |
| 27 | Robert of Torigny described the Norman proceedings thus : |
| 28 | As he put the glass to his lips to wash out the thought , his eye caught the soldierly portraits all around , the Divisional insignia above the mantelpiece , the roll of battle honours flanking them on each side , and he had a sudden vision of the mess walls decorated not with these trumpery monuments to man 's stupidity but with the torn and mangled limbs of countless unfortunates and , in the place of honour , Corporal Byford 's shattered , still bleeding leg . |
| 29 | The camera caught the six men squarely in its lens : Wang Sau-leyan to the left , Hung Mien-lo just behind him , Gesell , Mach and their two companions to the right . |
| 30 | He had drawn up the list of church members and he maintained the other lists too . |