Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [subord] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1940 he had been quite prepared , if need be , to serve in a dangerous capacity in the ranks because he felt he could be more useful in such a rôle at that critical moment in the country 's affairs , rather than go through the extra time and training there and then for a commission . |
| 2 | led wo late Tranmere strikes made it safe for the Merseysiders as they consolidated their second place in the Division One table . |
| 3 | He hated the Communists because they nicked his family 's bit of land and he hated the Germans because they treated them like pigs , ’ says Peter Solowka . |
| 4 | A gentle drumming sound came from the riders as they tapped their saddles with their crops . |
| 5 | A project to photograph the birds as they raised their young was launched , and at once became a passion with the younger boys . |
| 6 | ( Piontek was coach of denmark in the eigthies when they had their danish dynamite team which impressed in the world cup finals — the team including the likes of in-form Jan Molby , the elder Laudrup brother , Soren Lerby and a very good striker ( whose name slips me right now . |
| 7 | So maybe we would have been great to have the skills before I did it , and that 's why I am on the course this Erm , the only thing that I can think of that 's erm , something that I do believe and I am committed to getting changed , is er , a system in our offices , in one of our departments , but I do have erm , authority over the people that I would be talking to , so , I know at the end of the day , I could just say , do it , but I 'm trying to get them to believe in changing erm , and just sort of certain benefits of it . |
| 8 | Eddie said she was very meticulous about counting the sketches as she put them away . ’ |
| 9 | I would n't be able to break the story , and neither would the cops if they dug him out . |
| 10 | Harry drew the wallet from his pocket and leafed through the pictures until he found it . |
| 11 | ‘ This he could not do in folly , fool though the man can be , ’ said David , white to the lips as he watched his father 's face . |
| 12 | There was no doubt in the minds of the directors of the polytechnics as they received their formal designations from the end of the 1960s that the polytechnics were to remain distinctive . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's the record that I always wanted to make , in the sense that the basic backing track was completely based on the way we rehearsed the songs before we recorded them . |
| 14 | Seb was forking hay from the loft above the stables when he heard his name being called from outside . |
| 15 | Corbett was just about to leave to collect his cob from the stables when he remembered something and hurried back to the ferrymaster . |
| 16 | That story , you see , was invented originally by the Russians to cover up the fact that Zbigniew was badly tortured by the guards before they shot him . |
| 17 | He reminded himself to ask one of the guards when they brought him his next meal … |
| 18 | There was a vicious irony that it should be Brian , who always confronted the guards when they treated him subhumanly , who was now being abused like a dumb animal . |
| 19 | We were on the starboard tack , fighting into the trades as we clawed our way out from the Bahamian shoals into the deep waters of the Atlantic . |
| 20 | ‘ Christ 'ent it bloody 'ot , ’ Billy Tolboys breathed the words as he took his arm from around Mary 's waist and expertly swung the heavy stone jar on to his shoulder and took a deep swig . |
| 21 | She went in , hunted through the cupboards until she found everything she needed , then cooked herself a large meal . |
| 22 | It 's now thought a hundred and eighty people were detained by the Iraqis as they made their way to the pick up point for the last British convoy from Kuwait . |
| 23 | He hated the Communists because they nicked his family 's bit of land and he hated the Germans because they treated them like pigs , ’ says Peter Solowka . |
| 24 | ‘ If you 've got a pen I 'll read the directions as they gave them to the family . ’ |
| 25 | We were only a few miles from the coast , but in the days before we had our own car , visits to the sea were exciting expeditions . |
| 26 | ‘ It was one of her customers , in the days before I made her my manager , ’ he said lightly . |
| 27 | But in the weeks before they left they worked extremely hard at their fitness , were coached by Geoff Boycott to improve their batting technique , and insisted to the press that people back home in England were going to be pleasantly surprised . |
| 28 | One of them was two metres long and must have had a devastating effect on the plants as it browsed its way through the wet green bogs . |
| 29 | But I have made the films as I wanted them . |
| 30 | Mr Prescott said : ‘ If private capital can not produce the goods as it said it could , they should be given a short period of time to clear the mess up , or we will take it over . |