Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 100 miraculous kilometres we met the other bus returning to Francistown . |
| 2 | It made the other planes droning around the dull sky look puny . |
| 3 | He was then picked up and rode the entire parade sitting between Campese and Kearns . |
| 4 | After all , they were the women who bought and devoured a novel which revealed the unsatisfied desires seething beneath American small-town togetherness — Peyton Place , which earned Grace Metalious $56,000 a year in royalties . |
| 5 | Entry into the EC challenged parliamentary sovereignty ; the growth of direct action and extra-parliamentary politics in Northern Ireland and on the mainland challenged the rule of law and the stability of the liberal-democratic state ; the ups-and-downs of nationalism in Wales and Scotland challenged the unitary state and threatened the break-up of Britain ; the use of referenda [ popular and direct votes on issues ] revealed the crumbling legitimacy attaching to the indirect democracy of voting for people to parliament ; the conventions underpinning cabinet government were buffeted by a trend to " open government " that weakened collective responsibility and Cabinet solidarity ; and developments within the Labour Party have had constitutional implications at the self-same time as the Liberals and SDP have sought to imprint themselves directly onto the British constitution with proposals for radical constitutional change including proportional representation . |
| 6 | At any rate , the night 's most repeatable joke concerned the three bairns talking in the playground about whose dad had the fastest job . |
| 7 | Camera crews and their front men cruised the available space looking for celebrities to interview . |
| 8 | Justinian , however , entirely transformed the procedural regime applying to trusts . |
| 9 | I intended to feed a certain amount of high protein food and the dishes stopped the uneaten food settling in the gravel . |
| 10 | He was only jolted out of his misery when he approached the front door leading to his much-maligned flat and , as he struggled to pull his keys out of his right pocket with his left hand , a voice spoke to him from the shadows of the front porch . |
| 11 | One concerned neighbour — who is now looking after the boy — eventually pushed her way into the flat and found the stricken woman lying on the floor of the front room with a sheet over her . |
| 12 | When police arrived they found the two victims lying on the floor . |
| 13 | The advocate general found the British government lacking on two counts : failure adequately to enshrine in UK law the 1980 EC directive on drinking water , and the presence of excessive levels of nitrates in drinking water in 21 supply zones in East Anglia , and seven zones in the Severn Trent region . |
| 14 | Thirty years later , scientists from Rothamsted Experimental Station found the heavy metals persisting in the soil — 85 per cent of them in the top ten inches . |
| 15 | The sergeant continued : ‘ But then Mr Hamilton found the valuable guns missing from Taigh na Tuir , and he reported that , with the story of your attempt to get into the house last Wednesday night . |
| 16 | The filly provided a fitting final parading of the chocolate and gold colours of the White Lodge Stud as she waltzed seven lengths clear of eight tired rivals . |
| 17 | They entered a large hall gleaming with mahogany furniture . |
| 18 | No stone was left unturned ; officers stopped every single vehicle travelling on the A419 between Newtown and the M5 . |
| 19 | For framework knitters in the hosiery manufacture of the east Midlands , their historian William Felkin described a golden age lasting from 1755 to 1785 , but a more recent authority has suggested that although knitters by the time of Luddism 's outbreak in 1811 looked back to pre-war wages of 10 to 12s ( 50-60p ) for plain work and up to 30s ( £1.50 ) for skilled , they were generally prosperous down to 1809 . |
| 20 | Alzheimer described a similar condition beginning in middle life . |
| 21 | On June 7 a UNITA communiqué proposed a three-month truce starting from June 22 , the first anniversary of the short-lived ceasefire agreement reached in Gbadolite ( Zaïre ) [ see p. 36726 ] . |
| 22 | When we reached this area we found a small stream passing under a bridge marked Puente Chinoluiz . |
| 23 | Eventually Serrigny found a small house belonging to the local solicitor . |
| 24 | Then , remembering her damaged thumb , she went back and examined the top rail , exclaiming aloud in excitement as she found a second thread clinging to the rough wood . |
| 25 | She found a similar cushion hanging in front of her place , sewn in neat wool stitches . |
| 26 | Bardeen , Carter , and I found a similar law relating to the change in mass of a black hole to a change in the area of the event horizon . |
| 27 | He found a dead stoat lying near the hedge . |
| 28 | That morning each household found a fine breakfast sitting on the windowsill . |
| 29 | Tunney found a spiral staircase rising through a hole in the ceiling . |
| 30 | He loosened his gold tie and then the pale cream collar of his shirt in a gesture so filled with sexual imagery that she found a disturbing warmth flowing through her insides . |