Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where large scale production existed it was carried out by slaves , as was the case with gold mining in the Asante kingdom . |
| 2 | Inspired by the show , she dreamed up a tale of a Christian boy who blackmailed Muslim girls by luring them to an apartment where hidden video cameras filmed them in indecent postures . |
| 3 | More than one lord lieutenant told me almost apologetically of the number of supplicants who sought his intervention with the democratically-chosen authorities . |
| 4 | I was busy trying to figure out if this guy Thomas fancied me . |
| 5 | If any Boozebuster victim decided he did n't actually want to go back to the office or home to his wife , Eddie would gently , but very publicly , take hold of him by what she called his ‘ wedding tackle ’ and lead him out of the pub . |
| 6 | It must also be remembered that death usually took place in the home , not only because nineteenth century parents preferred it , but also because , before the development of antisepsis in practical nursing in the last quarter of the century , to send a patient to hospital was much more likely to prove fatal than keeping him at home . |
| 7 | In the course of our case studies , we found that programmers/analysts capable of working in certain specific software/hardware areas ( for example , IBM System 38 , PICK ) were extremely scarce , in some cases so much so that " nobody is training them any more " ( since high turnover rates meant they would not have the chance to amortise the training investment ) . |
| 8 | After this ordeal Tom left him to have a soak and slowly Willie began to unwind . |
| 9 | Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done . |
| 10 | There was more in the pitch than on the opening day for the quicker bowlers and with the second new ball Mark Ilott , playing his first game for Essex for a year after serious back problems kept him out of the game last season , was impressively hostile . |
| 11 | THE difficulties in the UK commercial property sector appeared to have claimed another victim yesterday after Surrey-based Bredero Properties announced it had breached its banking covenants , writes Richard Shackleton . |
| 12 | In the 250 race Gary Jess set the pace for eight of the 12 laps , before front fork failure forced him to slow down . |
| 13 | After one glass Ianthe said she must go , as she had decided to visit Miss Grimes on the way home . |
| 14 | A DARLINGTON landlady has left her pub after crippling rent rises forced her out of business . |
| 15 | ‘ I can still remember standing there at the party when that woman Pargeter told me . |
| 16 | The Gainsborough films that best characterize the desire of filmmakers to close their eyes to the darker currents in society , to make believe that the world really is as cosy as some wartime films made it out to be , are Holiday Camp ( 1947 ) and the three sequels set amongst the jolly Huggett family . |
| 17 | When some designer friends saw it they persuaded him to get it ready to market and it was ready just in time for Esher 1990 . |
| 18 | Historically , the vast majority of housing departments screened their tenants , putting the ‘ better class of person ’ , as many housing officers described them , onto the best estates , while ensuring that the poorest tenants were housed in sink areas . |
| 19 | The Infant Hercules , as Prime Minister Gladstone described it , acquired an awesome reputation for squalor and toughness . |
| 20 | It was visibly true that the CNAA , as one education correspondent put it , was ‘ busy about the job it was set up to do — to award degrees and to make sure that the standards of them are at least up to university level ’ . |
| 21 | As one law lord put it in 1967 , it can be ‘ very unpleasant ’ and ‘ hard ’ for the advocate ‘ to explain to a client why he is indulging in what seems treachery to his client because of an abstract duty to justice and professional honour ’ . |
| 22 | The ‘ baby difficulty ’ , as one attendance officer called it , led to many late nineteenth-century state elementary schools opening crèches . |
| 23 | With competition for research funds now especially fierce , the Defense Department is using its bountiful budget for university based science to ‘ sensitise ’ — as one Defense official put it — university scientists to its security concerns . |
| 24 | As one television executive put it : ‘ We do a few gay programmes , and will carry on doing them . |
| 25 | It was , as one refugee worker put it , ‘ the easy way out ’ and it solved nothing . |
| 26 | As one community leader put it : |
| 27 | As one health worker put it , ‘ They fiddle with all the bits that men do n't have . ’ |
| 28 | As one force member put it : Directors were encouraged to use this free resource to their own advantage in pushing it through with members . |
| 29 | As one teacher trainer put it not long ago , ‘ I have been in education for 25 years and I have never known morale so low . |
| 30 | First Slip , Premus , The Neb , The Toit , Hardd , Tensor — how desperate we found them — and what a sigh of relief when subsequent guidebook editions bounced them upwards : in the case of The Toit to E4 ! |