Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just cracked my knuckles rather as well . |
| 2 | In 1966 the Beatles had given up touring , a practice that had consumed their lives ever since they 'd been catapulted into celebrity in 1963 . |
| 3 | France , with a much smaller manpower than Germany ( at most some 6 million potential servicemen to Germany 's nearly 10 million ) , also employed conscription but with a different object , for the French regarded their conscripts principally as reserves for such tasks as garrison duty , while relying on the professional army of some 1 million men quickly to win an opening campaign and then the war . |
| 4 | Military and naval attachés usually regarded their appointments merely as interludes in their service careers and often had little sympathy with the outlook and preoccupations of professional diplomats . |
| 5 | Every one of those men who went in the forces , who lived to tell the tale , was given their jobs back when they came back , because their jobs were replaced by women during the war , drivers and conductors , they were replaced by women and as the men came back , so the women were paid off , so everybody who came back from the war was given their job back . |
| 6 | Missy had heard their engines long before a human ear could pick up the first faint sound and had come to tell her . |
| 7 | How many people have done their , at my age , done their feet in because wearing them I do n't know . |
| 8 | Rosemary Duncan-Smith had made her views plain when driving Meg back to Norwich station after her interview . |
| 9 | I am sure that his side 's performances have exceeded his expectations purely because of the manner in which the rugby has been played . |
| 10 | The pose had thrust his hips sideways as he leant at a slight angle and his free hand was at the level of his pelvis , thumb hooked into the waistband of his jeans , fingers doubled into a loose fist at the top of his hard , powerful thigh . |
| 11 | And if I 've hung his coats up once I 've hung up , I 've hung them up a hundred times , he 's got a coat hanger on the back of the coat hook on the back of the door |
| 12 | Why , he 'd made his feelings more than clear out in France , had n't he ? |
| 13 | Well you 've got your dungarees on so you 're all ready . |
| 14 | I do n't believe I would ever have found my insects again if I had n't had a printed picture of the complete set of their evolutionary precursors , and even then it was difficult and tedious . |
| 15 | BELVILLE : As human life is uncertain I have disposed my affairs so as to secure to you the power of living as a person ought who is my widow . |
| 16 | British parliamentary government has found its admirers abroad as well , and not least in the United States . |
| 17 | It was later learned that this was a boat from the Guiding Lights which had brought her drugs ashore while the first inflatable ferried our food and fuel . |
| 18 | That 's mucked your plans up as well in n it ? |
| 19 | He had thrown his pistols away since he had no more soft lead balls to use in them . |
| 20 | Yeah , of course you ca n't sort of cuddle him like that cos he 's too heavy , I rock him you know for a , a couple of minutes , not that long , he 's taken his braces off as well still do , do n't ya ? |
| 21 | I came back from the Oval to find that Buffy had blown his brains out because his father had refused to pay his gambling debts . |
| 22 | In McEllistrim v The Ballymacelligott Co-op Agricultural & Dairy Society [ 1919 ] AC 548 a co-operative society had changed its rules so as to prevent any member from selling milk other than to the society . |