Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [vb past] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once on the escarpment , a message was received that the El Daba airfield was not being used , so Stirling redirected Jellicoe and Zirnheld to strafe the road instead . |
| 2 | To take an example : in his reading of Rousseau 's essay on the origin of language , Derrida shows that Rousseau saw music as consisting of two contradictory components , melody and harmony . |
| 3 | The temperature remained high so Spencer called Humberside and asked for a QDM ( bearing to effect a return ) . |
| 4 | The parents needed not only extensive marital therapy but also to realize that Suzy needed sympathy and understanding about the distress she felt when her parents argued . |
| 5 | That should be good news for Jack Russell but bad news for Mike Atherton , who had looked favourite to partner Gooch if Stewart kept wicket and batted in the middle order . |
| 6 | Outside on the terrace , Karen and Eduardo drank wine and took the last of the day 's sun . |
| 7 | And Reinhardt followed suit and had Peter Behrens rebuild Arnim 's Theater ( Unter den Linden 44 ) according to his specifications . |
| 8 | When those fears were fulfilled in 1975 , Jordan and Syria condemned Egypt and refused to follow in its path . |
| 9 | March 3 : Estonia and Latvia held referendums and recorded 79 per cent and 73 per cent respectively in favour of independence . |
| 10 | Clothiers in Baintree and Barking followed suit and demanded the return of thrums from their weavers . |
| 11 | Lincoln , Stamford , Boston , Grantham and Grimsby had reputations that had spread beyond the county boundaries , but otherwise Lincolnshire 's market towns were just neighbourhood centres . |
| 12 | Finn , grinning , and Francie lit cigarettes and tilted their chairs back on two legs . |
| 13 | In October of that year , Hickson and Jacques joined forces and met the Director of Education over the possibility of a combined approach to the development of adult education which would reflect the recommendations of Circular 1444 . |
| 14 | Gabo , Moore and Hepworth took sections and punched holes to get at the space within . |
| 15 | The Kuwaitis wanted to know if Iraq had assets that had escaped the freeze imposed in August . |
| 16 | Now according to the mid-twelfth-century Roskilde Chronicon , after the death of Harald Bluetooth a certain Swegen invaded England and expelled King Æthelred , and his sons Gorm and Harthacnut attacked Denmark and killed King Haldanus and his sons . |
| 17 | Both Wellington and Harriett lacked imagination but relied instead on keen observation . |
| 18 | Late the next morning Corbett and Thomas left Earlston and struck south-west for the great Forest of Ettrick . |
| 19 | Probably the most important effect of his reading of Joyce was to make him all the more aware of the possibilities of his anthropological reading , especially when applied to modern city life in the context of inanity or death : city life was filled with fatal torpor and Eliot described London as shrivelling , like an aged little bookkeeper . |
| 20 | When they returned to the house , Terry tried to persuade her to accompany her to visit one of her girlfriends , for a sort of hen night , she supposed , but Ellie pleaded tiredness and went up to her room , and that , except for a brief trip to the kitchen for something to eat , was where she stayed . |
| 21 | Both remained state-owned , but SJ slashed staff and turned a loss on service provision into profit . |
| 22 | Four years earlier he told Boswell that the difference between the two was that whereas Rousseau talked nonsense and knew he did — because he talked it so well — Monboddo , who talked an inferior brand , did not know he was talking nonsense . |
| 23 | Often she did n't get up in the mornings , lying in bed while Emmie got breakfast and made her a cup of tea . |
| 24 | Dona and Anna went against the grain for love , but Dona benefitted and got away with her actions while Anna escaped convention and let convention have its revenge . |
| 25 | East Germany and Hungary , for example , clearly wished to develop economic ties with Western Europe and were dissatisfied with Kremlin policies , whilst Romania broke ranks and sent an Olympic team to America . |
| 26 | In March of that year , as Serbs blocked roads and fought with Croat policemen in Krajina , the presidents of the six republics made a last stab at bargaining . |
| 27 | He had one foot in the old camp and one foot in the new , and , incidentally , became Nicholson 's neighbour when Jack struck gold and bought a big house . |
| 28 | Slow left-armer Tufnell had just removed opener Navjot Sidhu for 79 in the 13th over of the day , to leave India 174 for two , when Kambli charged Emburey but failed to connect properly . |
| 29 | When Galileo found results that displeased the Pope , his reward was imprisonment . |