Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that heads and teachers of very differing professional styles and values were working in Leeds throughout this period demonstrates , of course , that other factors were at work and that the wilder accusations of patronage which came our way needed to be treated with considerable caution . |
| 2 | In March 1992 W. reached the age of 16 and exercised her right to cease to be represented by the Official Solicitor and instead to instruct solicitors and counsel of her own choice . |
| 3 | As he shaved his reflection seemed to be the face of a low criminal — or like one of Bodo 's associates — and when he went into the sitting-room his wife bore more than a passing resemblance to an exceptionally severe judge about to condemn that criminal to hard labour for life . |
| 4 | If you want to talk about the work of an author , you need to judge how many texts to talk about and how varied your selection needs to be ( many authors write in different modes : novels , short stories , poems , diaries and letters , etc ) . |
| 5 | But I just thought my mother wanted to be specially nice to me . |
| 6 | She said her husband seemed to be unbalanced and capable of doing nasty things to their children . |
| 7 | Looking back it may appear surprising that the militancy of the seamen in 1911 had compelled the Federation to alter its stance at all , so impregnable had its position appeared to be . |
| 8 | He said his daughter wanted to be cured . |
| 9 | That said his fitness has to be 100% for Wilko to play him at all , and he clearly is liable to get himself sent off . |
| 10 | ‘ A steward had his head cut through being struck , it is believed , with a spanner , ’ the Times correspondent wrote , ‘ The chairman read the Public Meetings Act 1908 in the presence of a large number of police . |