Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then her hand shot out and she whipped the piece of paper out of his pocket , moving so quickly that he had no chance to stop her . |
| 2 | She flung the fragment of saucer as far as she could , watching it spinning against the sky . |
| 3 | It said that the study had proved that the capital and operating costs then being achieved made the advantages of diesel much less attractive and that the cost benefits had diminished . |
| 4 | Such a project was tried in Wales and though it did identify cases , logistical difficulties in community health care made the rate of detection unacceptably low . |
| 5 | Perhaps the remarkable technological fertility of the physics of mechanical model-building made the illusion of finality more tempting . |
| 6 | Cattle trucks made the transport of meat both faster and easier . |
| 7 | To some extent this made the definition of quality easier to adapt to the process of management planning . |
| 8 | She went on seeing Jim , his friend , his appalled good friend , just as before — perhaps even in his own bed , Albert realized , since the shift-work timing of a customs officer 's job made the logistics of adultery comically easy . |
| 9 | She read the piece of paper again and again . |
| 10 | Thus one may ( first stage ) read the meaning of scripture out of it , and then ( second stage ) apply what one holds to be the golden thread to another situation , not considered in the scriptures . |
| 11 | He had become a legend and he ensured he got the kind of treatment only a legend deserved . |
| 12 | ‘ My co-writer Gerard Brown and I actually got the idea for Juice about ten years ago . |
| 13 | You 're not telling answer Got the bottles of Coke out yet ? |
| 14 | A slippery customer got the taste of freedom yesterday when a 7ft long conger eel was released back into the wild by the Scarborough Sea Life Centre . |
| 15 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 16 | His approach to such standards as Miss Otis Regrets , All the things you are and Maria was serious , but at the same time conveyed the feeling of sophistication so essential to this genre . |
| 17 | Project 2000 argued the necessity for change as much in terms of keeping pace with service needs and professional nursing developments as tackling the deficiencies of existing nurse training and the challenges posed to recruitment by demographic trends . |
| 18 | The group entertained the Bishop to coffee afterwards and presented him with a memento to mark his 49 years in the priesthood . |
| 19 | Secondly , it was held that on the proper construction of the lease the provisions relating to gold regulated the manner of payment rather than the amount of payment . |
| 20 | By common consent they stopped and leant on the oak fence that bordered the field of barley beyond . |
| 21 | No one drew the curtains on moonlight either ; dead and dormant butterflies clung undisturbed in their folds . |
| 22 | It was they who oversaw the Ashleys ' first venture into environmental selling , whereby the country charm and old-world air of the house perfectly complemented the products on sale within . |
| 23 | And play Van Gogh , he caught the descent into madness perfectly . |
| 24 | The Polish replica moved the breaking of Enigma on from a theoretical exercise to a practical one and Knox always gave the Poles credit for the part they played . |
| 25 | This of course moved the centre of gravity aft , and to restore the trim of the aircraft the wings were given a marked degree of sweepback . |
| 26 | Corbett moved the cup of ale back across the table . |
| 27 | I moved the bag of grass over towards Carol but kept hold of it . |
| 28 | The subtle differences have brought a strength and depth of study to the discipline of building surveying and created the sense of identity so palpably missing in the 1960s . |
| 29 | He began to expect to own a house ; he more and more rarely worked with his hands ; as he earned more , he found the paying of tax increasingly disagreeable . |
| 30 | In 1964 , at the age of 8 , he moved from Jamaica to Islington , London , where he resumed schooling , but found the demands at home often contradictory : |