Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |
| 2 | Hoskyns badly wanted him for the post . |
| 3 | Innocent of intrigue , Meredith suddenly discovered it in the dark depths of Lucenzo Salviati 's eyes . |
| 4 | Meredith soon forgot everything but the endlessly fascinating unfolding scene . |
| 5 | Jon Pepper always struck me as a very proficient newsman . |
| 6 | The Shah had visited Washington in November 1977 , towards the end of Carters election , and the new administration had impressed upon him that although the United States still regarded him as an important ally , the days of unrestricted arms sales , while arrest and torture by SAVAK were ignored by the US , were over , In fact , the Shah had already moderated SAVAK , released some political prisoners and allowed a little more criticism of his government to be expressed , even before Carter 's inauguration . |
| 7 | Patients at Dr Jordan 's 1,530-strong practice yesterday described him as a ‘ conscientious grafter ’ . |
| 8 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 9 | This vulnerability further endeared her to the public . |
| 10 | So whenever she was busy sewing , Corbett always recognised it as a bad sign . |
| 11 | In November 1989 Bishop Ioan of Zhitomir proclaimed himself head of a revived Ukrainian Autocephalous Church ( abolished in 1929 ) and was summarily excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church ; the Constantinople Patriarchate also dissociated itself from the revival . |
| 12 | Two months later found him near the edge of the track at Cadwell Park , in Lincolnshire , as racing cars flashed past at over 100mph . |
| 13 | Thin and tiny in stature , her back was as straight as an arrow , but her legs often pained her in the cooler winter and spring weather . |
| 14 | Confident that there was enough evidence to support the move , Branson now appointed himself to the board as an ‘ A ’ director , giving the Virgin Group a three to two majority over Fields . |
| 15 | It was also important to think what she should wear , for if any of the Governors who had interviewed her only three months ago saw her at the service they would know why she was there . |
| 16 | Manoon immediately surrendered himself to the authorities and was later charged with , among other crimes , conspiracy to assassinate Queen Sirikit in 1982 . |
| 17 | Murdoch immediately relaunched it as a tabloid and turned it against the flagship of its previous owners . |
| 18 | I bought another dress in Barnard Castle made from very fine material with a flared skirt , and the Daily Mail kindly presented me with a broad-brimmed floral hat and a pair of white gloves to take some very nice photographs . |
| 19 | The film director claimed his former lover regularly rang him in the middle of the night to scare him . |
| 20 | Its journalists then re-founded it as an independent paper [ see p. 38372 ] . |
| 21 | People who wanted to get rid of old cars sometimes dumped them on the moor , the kind of behaviour that maddened Stephen . |
| 22 | Then a fiercer gust of wind almost blew her from the path and she hung on to bag and box like grim death . |
| 23 | I took off my rings and jewellery and put them in my handbag then lowered myself over the cliff edge . |
| 24 | One inmate then aimed it at the perimeter fence of trouble-torn Lindholme jail , Doncaster , as other prisoners pelted warders with bricks . |
| 25 | His car barely made it across the finish line , spluttering and choking , before the fuel supply dried up . |
| 26 | The agent never treated me as a serious buyer because I did n't fit his image of a businessman ’ ) , the adaptation process began . |
| 27 | ‘ Your eyes never left me in the hall . |
| 28 | Chantries were not limited to the laity ; some of the more senior clergy certainly availed themselves of the system and numerous chantry chapels survive in most of the monastic-foundation cathedrals to abbots and priors . |
| 29 | The three candidates never lifted it beyond a hard and drab slog . |
| 30 | The simple , laughing islanders subsequently worshipped it as a god , much to the amusement of their more sophisticated neighbours . |