Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do n't want the experts to come in and advise because it is the experts that have let them down . ’ |
| 2 | Bernice grabbed more of the cans and began to hurl them overboard . |
| 3 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 4 | Only last year , on the instructions of Luther Reynolds , David had brought the boy out of the mines and begun to teach him the way of business ; Matthew often accompanied him on his rounds , and though he made little attempt to befriend David , the boy worked , and learned , and spent so many hours closeted in the ‘ den ’ with the old man , that Beth was obliged to voice her concern . |
| 5 | The 4th , 10th , 14th and 27th are all times when you may feel the cosmos has it in for you although these are the very points at which you could break the chains that have held you back for so long . |
| 6 | Good news for us but bad for them and that 'll have to be all for today , we 've been answering some of the queries that have reached us by post . |
| 7 | Mandy had assured her it was a cinch , but it was the hours that had made her take the plunge into something so totally out of her realm of experience . |
| 8 | He put down the comics and sat watching her . |
| 9 | And if black holes were as varied as the objects that collapsed to form them , it might be very difficult to make any predictions about black holes in general . |
| 10 | As recorded by British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) monitoring , he had made the observation that we humans have a short life , and tomorrow we are all going to die , but his last words touched on the need for a return to democracyand for Islam to keep pace with modernization : We see the states that have overtaken us : what did they overtake us with ? |
| 11 | In 1964 , he moved to Trinidad to become Dean of Students , which was a promotion , at the UWI campus there , continuing the work he had begun in Kingston by stressing to the students the importance of discipline , physical fitness , responsibility and such like — in other words , all the values that had made him such a successful captain . |
| 12 | ‘ But along with change is a commitment to the values that have kept us operating successfully as a group for over 200 years — service , quality , innovation — all these things and more . |
| 13 | They blamed the crises that have affected it on the way in which EC members carried out their obligations , not on the ERM itself . |
| 14 | The presence of teenager Kevin Thomas in the Hearts ' squad may be designed to supply the goals that tend to elude them at Broomfield . |
| 15 | Conceivably connected too is the possibility that Æthelred took as a consort the daughter of a Northumbrian earl , Thored , maybe to mollify such of the northerners as had supported him . |
| 16 | The manufacturers of BSB 's MAC receivers , the traders that tried to sell them , and the public who were encouraged to buy them , have lost confidence in the whole business of MAC , Marcopolo and 31° West . |
| 17 | He seized the demented man round the shoulders and began to drag him back to safety . |
| 18 | He took hold of her by the shoulders and began to shake her with all his strength , forcing her back through the hall towards the staircase . |
| 19 | I have run ahead of chronology however and in particular of the First World War , which the peoples that had entered it as parts of the Empire ended as free-standing independent nations . |
| 20 | Familiarity with the voices that had haunted him down through the years had encouraged a bravado that was little like his real self . |
| 21 | But will Charles and Diana ever find happiness in the homes that helped tear them apart ? |
| 22 | He had expected to have to batter his way laboriously through the months that had separated them , as through the stockade of a castle into which he must break by force of arms . |
| 23 | Repeated presentation of a given stimulus , therefore , will allow a network of links to be established among the elements that go to make it up ( particularly strong links being formed among those elements that tend to be sampled frequently ) . |
| 24 | Naïve fool , she thought , staring into space , fighting back the emotions that threatened to swamp her . |
| 25 | Representing Dagenham , in east London , Mr Gould is seen by some colleagues as well-placed to assess how Labour can broaden its appeal to the communities that have rejected it at four general elections in a row . |
| 26 | Would Eve be furious if Mother Francis heard the whole story of the lies , the unhappiness and the circumstances that had brought her to the other side of the city and now into a hospital bed ? |
| 27 | Yet there had been those kisses pressed upon her own lips — and what about the embraces that had held her so closely against him ? |
| 28 | You will remember the lives that have marked you the most , first . |
| 29 | She swallowed , struggling against the tightness in her throat , the sobs that threatened to overwhelm her . |
| 30 | Even , even though they may be er , the they may work as a result of different o of the same enzyme activity in some cases the target for that enzyme activity and the receptors that have put it into the specific cells that are targeted lead to really very different biological effects . |