Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clubs such as this were rather like workshops with the old pros as time-served tradesmen who expected the young apprentices to clean their boots and learn their trade . |
| 2 | The process of unification led the established parties to merge their east and west German organizations : the FDP in August [ see p. 37661 ] , the SPD in September [ see p. 37718 ] , and the CDU on Oct. 1 [ see p. 37761 ] , shortly before unification . |
| 3 | She let the cooling suds tickle her wrists , worked her white-locked mop in and out of glasses . |
| 4 | I heard afterwards that Butler left also , and that Lord Salisbury , as senior Cabinet Minister , invited the remaining Ministers to give their opinion about who should succeed to the vacant and , in the circumstances , not very alluring post . |
| 5 | He tried a few jokes to breach their blandness . |
| 6 | I told the little sods to get their dad , but as usual he ai n't nowhere to be seen . ’ |
| 7 | They could claim that they never had the opportunity to be successful whereas those who filled the top jobs owed their position to their relatives , friends and the advantages of birth . |
| 8 | On one occasion no fewer than six females with eighteen kittens established a communal nest of this type and each female allowed the other mothers to offer their milk to any kittens whenever they felt like it . |
| 9 | The trouble , on the last day 's play , allowed the four pundits to exercise their judgment and sense of fair play . |
| 10 | Inside his hut on the other side of the camp Ngo Van Loc also heard the two men take their leave of one another . |
| 11 | The Keraing , however , had put the wheels in motion , and while Sinar Surya was being prepared for the sea , and the pirates were still arguing about where she might go , and with whom , Lorne and I spent the following weeks suppressing our impatience by exploring our surroundings . |
| 12 | They ordered the young women to remove their upper garments and then to bend forward until their foreheads touched the cold sand . |
| 13 | In retrospect , this seems to have been the meeting which prompted the remaining employers to make their final concessions , but that was not clear at the time , and several of the orators , some of whom have already been quoted , loosed off broadsides against the women 's union on this occasion . |
| 14 | On Sept. 23 , 1989 , Menem urged the two factions to abandon their plans to hold separate congresses and elect parallel leaderships , and instead to convene a single congress for October . |
| 15 | On the basis of a report delivered by Gorbachev on Feb. 7 a resolution was adopted which ruled that the independence declaration should be " regarded as having no standing " , and urged the Lithuanian communists to suspend their decision to break with the CPSU until the matter could be debated at the 28th party congress . |
| 16 | The fried bean curd put one in mind of oriental griddle cakes and needed the hot sauces to extract their inscrutable flavour . |
| 17 | St Paul was surely right when he exhorted the early Christians to resolve their disputes among themselves without recourse to the court . |
| 18 | But the arrival of punk and the flood of self-produced records led to the setting up of new distribution networks which enabled the new labels to keep their distance from the bigger companies . |
| 19 | This again enabled the bourgeois classes to exert their strength and so benefit from the disillusionment with the costs of revolution ( Krygier 1979c ) . |
| 20 | The millet system enabled the Christian Slavs to maintain their churches and monasteries . |
| 21 | A recent opinion poll revealed that only 5% of those questioned thought the existing parties represented their interests . |
| 22 | People chose the strangest places to leave their rubbish . |
| 23 | But equally , the moths only took a hundred years to make their change . |
| 24 | There was no need to leave now ; he could stay and talk the matter out He took a few moments to arrange his thoughts , make a few educated guesses and assess the full extent of the plot which had been built around him . |
| 25 | He easily rounded Eagles cover and cantered the fifty metres to score his first try in a month . |
| 26 | Did the former occupants lend their ghostly beings to the hordes of Roman spirits reputed to wander hereabouts ? |
| 27 | Thus did the social democrats betray their promise of a new world without war , and come to act as instruments for each ruling order : nationalism was the key ideological means of breaking the workers ’ challenge to the status quo . |
| 28 | Had the besweatered Pakistanis held their catches there is no knowing to what depths of despair England might have sunk that evening . |
| 29 | Leapor was , of course , discovered by Freemantle who , though relatively learned , had to bring her friend to the attention of others who had the social connections to promote her work : |
| 30 | Urging the islanders to become more involved in their own defence , he gave assurances , however , that the UK had no immediate plans to reduce its military commitment to the islands following the February agreement to restore diplomatic links with Argentina [ see p. 37245 ] . |