Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Aerosols were almost impossible to stop , and the soldiers and their weapons and equipment were getting burned and melted all over the place until one brave soldier who had clung on to one of the Aerosols as it flew back to its base came back ( after many adventures ) with the news that their base was a breadboard moored under an overhang on an inland creek . |
| 2 | And even those captives who 'd got back to Danu , the town I mean , had been merely mice — helpless and squeaking — rolled this way and that as the cat pleased . |
| 3 | On the other hand , Ken has been remembered and widely admired , not only by the Oxford Movement and their successors , as the noblest , most saintly and most charitable representative of the hundreds of Anglican clergy who had grown up under Puritan rule , sustained in their faith by the memory of King Charles the Martyr , ; they had come into their own at the Restoration but had later given up comfortable benefices to live in poverty , out of a scrupulous loyalty to a monarch to whose ecclesiastical ambitions they were utterly opposed . |
| 4 | Now , as they left the shuttle lounge at Heathrow , mixed in with the commuters and shoppers who had come down for the day , Adam saw the tail . |
| 5 | Of the new ‘ Nepmen ’ , two were Jews who had come in from some other guberniia , and the other three all had military experience but little capital in goods or cash . |
| 6 | The waiting-room was moderately full and there were several clients who had come in from neighbouring villages . |
| 7 | It would always be the partner with a wife and kids who got shot down in the line of duty , giving his bachelor buddy the chance poignantly to break the news to his loved ones . |
| 8 | He hung on to the semicircular rail around the outer edge , where they were standing because the businessmen who had got in after them had jostled them there , and she saw that his eyes were closed and that he had gone gray with fear about the drop . |
| 9 | At the wedding a host of best wishes were received from the other side of the world where many relatives called Jones still remembered young Carol who had gone off to Australia as a child and was now all grown up and about to get wed . |
| 10 | The man responsible for instigating change was Robin Darwin who had taken over as Rector on 1 January 1948 . |
| 11 | As he pulled on the oars — he could not bear simply to sit and wait for the bell to ring — John was again the boy who had set out to be the man he never became . |
| 12 | Nirvana , like eternal life in the teaching of Jesus , can be attained in this life , as it was in the case of the Buddha who consented to stay on in this world for the sake of men , rather than move on at once to Para-nirvana , the final and highest heaven . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you remember that old lady who kept coming in for Roald Dahl , saying he was a woman ? ’ sobbed Denise . |
| 14 | She had no sympathy for the rich , spoiled girl who 'd walked out of her room and disappeared . |
| 15 | Not bad for a girl who had grown up on a council estate . |
| 16 | So she watched , and listened , and fell a little further , and when his bleep went she went back with him to the department and they worked side by side , communicating with a gesture or a word almost in silence , each anticipating the other 's needs as they dealt with a little girl who had fallen out of a tree and broken both arms and one leg . |
| 17 | It was a picture of Louise Butler and Terry recognised her at once as the girl who had run out in front of his car on the night of the rave . |
| 18 | She jumped back with a startled squeak , but Bridhe laughed ; and then she saw the little girl who had slipped in under her arm to comfort the baby . |
| 19 | I ca n't think of his name now , but it was great because there was this really tough girl who wanted to hang around with me because this guy fancied me . |
| 20 | Carpenter 's speed and control was even causing problems for Harris , himself no slouch , and Farnham 's hearts must have been in their mouths when the Cranleigh number 10 , having broken clear on the right , hit the deck after a late challenge by Cann who had raced out of his area . |
| 21 | While waiting , she gazed solemnly at the sinister Bridge of Sighs a few yards away and thought of the prisoners who 'd gazed out of its thickly grilled windows , looking for the last time on the beauties of Venice before they were incarcerated — or executed for causing the displeasure of powerful nobles . |
| 22 | On our first meeting he thought I was a removal man working for Frank and Salome who had gone on to higher things ( mainly higher rates , mortgage repayments , so fourth , so fifth ) . |
| 23 | Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint |
| 24 | Writing to the Countess of Rutland in 1670 from his ‘ uncouth cell ’ in the Fleet prison , where he had been committed for debt , Crowe was scathing about the quality of the tapestries produced by William , Earl of Craven [ q.v. ] , and his associates who had taken over from him at Mortlake in 1667 . |
| 25 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 26 | They were chiefly used by women but also by doctors and clergymen who had to go out in all weathers . |
| 27 | He is said to have one of the fastest services in Britain and his game proved too powerful for Tony Marti who had hurried back from a league match to play him . |
| 28 | Their best effort of the entire proceedings was a superb save in 75 minutes by keeper Kevin McKeown who brilliantly touched away a searing drive by full back John Drake who had moved on to a Totten free kick . |
| 29 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
| 30 | ITV had a good traditional Western on , in which the grizzled old sheriff ( played by a clapped-out Hollywood actor who had kept out of politics ) taught the rules of the game and his homespun philosophy to his tearaway young deputy ( played by a reformed pop star ) . |