Example sentences of "[art] [num] [noun] [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This included £329,000 to Iroquois , covering fees over the four-and-a-half months that he chaired Eagle , £33,000 to Iroquois ' lawyer and two blank cheques for £250,000 presented to Richard Smith and Clive Whiley , who had just been sacked as directors of Eagle . |
| 2 | The only ‘ clean ’ greyhound in the race , run at Canterbury this month , was the 5–2 favourite and it finished last . |
| 3 | In response Fujimori criticised Amnesty International and the United States human rights body Americas Watch for failing to denounce the activities of Sendero Luminoso or human rights violations in the eight years before he came to power . |
| 4 | I had n't timed the fifty yards but it had been no sprint . |
| 5 | He , he home last in the fifty fly but he finished it for once . |
| 6 | Local authority expenditure during the 12 years since we took office has risen by 26 per cent . |
| 7 | This book included the 1985/86 season but I did n't buy the updated version which I think was available a year of so back as so much of the information is duplicate . |
| 8 | Alina was holding onto the door , because the six steps that she 'd taken to reach it had almost been enough to exhaust her ; Belov dusted off his hands and came over to her now , and he took her by the shoulders and turned her around and steered her back toward the bed that she 'd just left . |
| 9 | During the six months since I had last seen him , Mr Broadhurst had undergone a further metamorphosis and this time the change was more radical , more entire , than ever before . |
| 10 | During the six years since he joined the company , he has been involved in many of the major changes that have taken place . |
| 11 | Carol , a jeweller for more than 25 years , has built up a steady following for her original designs in the six years since she moved out of London and started her own business . |
| 12 | It 's an age when we feel but do n't think yet , but you did n't seem to have learnt a thing about either yourself or Jones in the whole of the six years since I saw you last . ’ |
| 13 | Software has improved dramatically in the six years since I bought the old computer and this one is faster and easier to use . |
| 14 | According to Bernier , who regularly visited the fort over the six years that he spent in and around Delhi : |
| 15 | ‘ Because there were two freak news-leaks in the forty-eight hours before he went . |
| 16 | The 16-point plan presented by the rebels at this meeting had been rejected by the government , but on Oct. 15 Chissano announced that MNR rebels would be allowed to stand in the 1991 elections if they renounced violence and laid down their arms . |
| 17 | I thought you said the three grand as it stood without the M O T and anything |
| 18 | Based in Switzerland and named after the three transmitters that they used . |
| 19 | After the victory at Filbert Street , Rovers ' first away win of the season , Yates said : ‘ We 've shown great improvement in the three games since he arrived . ’ |
| 20 | Well yesterday the three things that I felt that were most useful to me was one the delivery two the coaching and the thought patterns . |
| 21 | He had played his part , had enjoyed the pomp and the dressing-up , and being with his bride the centre of attention , confident all the while that Fate , his father or the future — the three f's as he called them to himself — would eventually rearrange the matter to everyone 's satisfaction . |
| 22 | In those days few ministers thought it necessary to attend their own counts , and Baldwin had his vigil in the No. 10 secretaries ' room enlivened by the presence of Churchill : ‘ The P.M. [ sat ] with narrow slips of paper on which he inscribed the three lists as they arrived . |
| 23 | The last time was for the three months before she encountered Jarvis in Fawley Road . |
| 24 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
| 25 | He said in his own inimitable way , ’ On the three occasions that I lost , I reflected upon the stupidity of an electoral system whereby everybody , no matter how ill educated , how ignorant , or even how evil , was able to vote . |
| 26 | She felt that she had changed entirely since it was written , and chiefly during the three days since she had been in London . |
| 27 | He had seen for himself the progress that had been made in the three days since he had last visited the laboratories . |
| 28 | At this Drew became disturbed and emotional , and said that , if the three people that he had previously named — the Lindos and Norman Stubbs , the stage manager — could not testify that he was at the theatre at the time of the murder , he knew of no-one else who could , but he certainly did not commit any murder , nor was he seen in Cross Street with blood on his face . |
| 29 | Once again i caught on the three methods that I thought would work on the day and to say the least I was more than confident of getting good points . |
| 30 | ‘ Keep still , do n't panic , and you 'll be all right , ’ Trent told the three men as he handed them into the boat . |