Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [noun] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Written with humility , perception , compassion and anger , each leading into the other , it 's a portrayal of some of the unknown and disregarded men and women who live in the poverty of Thatcherite Britain today.c Its author , Robert Wilson , is still a young man , and already a writer of stature . |
| 2 | The defence of the coastline had also to be seen to , and was not infrequently found to be wanting , most particularly when small forces of enemy soldiers attacked the English shore and ravaged villages and towns which they found undefended . |
| 3 | He could also play a variety of instruments ( and passed on this ability to his children ) and knew songs and melodies which had never been written down — just passed on from ear to ear via generations of Dalesmen . |
| 4 | The road will open the forest to settlers , who elsewhere have cleared forest for cattle , overhunted and introduced alcohol and diseases which can not be tolerated by forest people . |
| 5 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 6 | It was something he found hard to understand , though of course it must be accepted , this escape of children from the parental bonds so that they could have secrets from you and hiding places you could n't penetrate , that they were adults and possessed houses and cars which you had no hand in choosing or buying , that they could lock up those houses as they locked up their thoughts . |
| 7 | In one case , for example , Reepham magistrates in Norfolk sent two brothers to prison for two months as a penalty for not supporting their mother , although both men were close on sixty and had wives and children themselves . |