Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mob attacked Kano government offices and burnt down the state radio station . |
| 2 | The vestry itself was so familiar from childhood memories that Dalgliesh could have taken one quick glance , shut his eyes and spoken aloud an inventory of high church piety : the packets of incense on top of the cupboard ; the incense holder and censer ; the crucifix and , behind the faded red serge curtain , the lace-trimmed vestments and the short starched surplices of the choir . |
| 3 | This model was fitted with radial tyres as standard and is currently on 205 x 16 Michelin XM + S. When jacked up the steering i-not stiff . |
| 4 | From knowing the actual word that should have been written at a particular position in the input , a simple NAWK program was written which loaded the target word for each position into an associative array , then went through the Q100 lattice and printed out the recognition score assigned to each target word . |
| 5 | The Finance ( No 2 ) Act 1975 made sweeping changes to the law and placed both the contractor and sub-contractor in such a position that tax avoidance was virtually halted . |
| 6 | Her visitor wandered nonchalantly over to the window and looped back the curtain to peer out . |
| 7 | When he had turned two corners and gone about a quarter of a mile , he gave Dann the pistol . |
| 8 | When the Gruagach had come storming down from the Northern Wastes and attacked Tara and stolen away the Wolfking 's son , Tara 's heir , the people of the half-world of the forest had vanished , afraid and timid . |
| 9 | Henry went up to the landing and sized up the lavatory . |
| 10 | The following morning they lit the oil-lamp in the shrine and loaded up the sheep . |
| 11 | By the early 1950s the binder had been rendered out of date by the combine harvester , which cut the crop and separated out the grain in one operation . |
| 12 | Anyway , we nailed our box to the wall and propped up the front with a piece of wood , to make it stable enough to support the weight of our two owls . |
| 13 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
| 14 | To facilitate this , the conference organisers had prepared a list of topics and drawn up a list of questions which might be considered in the discussions . |
| 15 | Dixon — Walker — Dorigo at the back and brought in a target-man at top — the key to norways big win ( 10–0 ) vs san marino was jostein flo : he won every single duel in the air … |
| 16 | Sam was gratified to be alone with his father and identified only the improvization and daring that lay in the situation , not the guilt and apprehension . |
| 17 | as if he , too , was perplexed , the man frowned , then he lifted off his helmet and peeled away the balaclava . |
| 18 | As one farmer , who had participated in a number of courses , put it , ‘ it could assist the instructor and liven up the learning process ’ . |
| 19 | He 's trampled on my alstroemerias and my dahlias , kicked out my cucumber frame and broken down the fence into the orchard . ’ |
| 20 | She should never have let him slip away silently to Pool in the first place , but clung fast to him there among the trees and called out the men to overpower him . |
| 21 | The car tax was having a very negative effect on car sales and taken together the Chancellor 's proposals could have a positive impact on consumer confidence . ’ |
| 22 | Not in shame , but in confusion and surprise she realised that her eyes were opaque with tears , and that the voices had swayed into the foreground and taken on a meaning . |
| 23 | He reached down to the floor and folded back the carpet . |
| 24 | Three powerful strokes brought her to the rail where she went straight into an underwater turn and headed down the pool . |
| 25 | I started off the way I write every album — wrote a couple of songs , got a feel for the music and called up the musicians that I thought I could do the songs with . |
| 26 | What they did n't realize was that granules of radioactive material left in the bottom of the dissolving vessel had evaporated the residual liquid and heated up the base . |
| 27 | Recession is the culprit : it has slashed tax receipts and driven up the cost of unemployment benefits . |
| 28 | But last time I climbed it I started at Wall End Farm and headed up the ravine of Redacre Gill . |
| 29 | ‘ We think these blackbirds must have lost their brood and taken on the bluetit chicks as substitutes . ’ |
| 30 | " On this occasion , the government suspended negotiations and brought in the troops . |