Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only had a trim , but the blow dry made it sort of Do you remember when I got that , my hair cut really short ? |
| 2 | Dyson half expected him to come jerking back for a reprise of the First Collect . |
| 3 | There was plenty of slate there but he he just slate mines would n't pay t to get these machines , and course this grant story this had you know millions of pounds of grants for these machines and that . |
| 4 | Despite the recession this helped us to retain the vast majority of our members and welcome new ones to our ranks . |
| 5 | this weighed , mum this weighed something , this weighs nothing . |
| 6 | Of course this made it clear that von Neumann 's " proof " needed reappraisal , a task successfully accomplished by John Bell . |
| 7 | But the outright victory Garvey required to keep their championship flame alive eluded them , and the league battle has been reduced to a two-horse race . |
| 8 | Overall , the two types of study each had its own areas of strength and compensated for the weaknesses of the other ; the neighbourhood studies were intended to obtain depth of linguistic and social information , while the telephone survey provided breadth . |
| 9 | It was probably the tension that had him jittery . |
| 10 | Figure 16–4 showed what happens when a wage tax is levied but the supply of labour is completely inelastic . |
| 11 | To the shepherd this meant they were expecting a storm . |
| 12 | A closing 73 gave him victory by three shots over Bernhard Langer and Ian Woosnam who finished with a blistering 62 . |
| 13 | The discussion of the use of the portfolio goals in chapter 4 made it quite clear that SBUs labelled ‘ stars ’ will have quite different financial profiles from ‘ cash cows ’ or ‘ dogs ’ . |
| 14 | Stockman , Regan and the president all made it clear that compromise was not on offer — a position that Jones rightly interpreted as an assault on congressional prerogatives . |
| 15 | This would have effectively made Toraja religion illegal had it not been for a young Toraja " slave " who had studied law while attending to the needs of his lord at university . |
| 16 | The figure I gave you about the amount of money I 've spent gives you a notion about the size of the advance , which was very generous from both Gollancz and the Americans [ Putnam ] . |
| 17 | When such practice first occurred it could be justified . |
| 18 | Nimslo first showed its 3D snapshots at the Photokina Exhibition in Cologne in October 1980 . |
| 19 | That night the wind and rain tore ferociously at the tent as the force 8 hit us ; it was a luxurious feeling to be snug , warm and safe in our sleeping bags . |
| 20 | Piloting recognition tests for films gathered in Study 1 made it clear that for subjects who know Cambridge moderately well recognizing a particular Cambridge junction from among distractors is relatively easy , thus to avoid ceiling effects it was decided to use multiple different films of various individual junctions as recognition stimuli . |
| 21 | It is worth noting that changes among the two highest referring practices in phase 1 , fundholding practices 9 and 10 , went in opposite directions ; practice 9 increased its rate whereas practice 10 decreased . |
| 22 | It is understood that the figure of almost £300,000 owed to the club 's short term creditors when the club last published its accounts in July last year is still at the same level . |
| 23 | Meanwhile the PowerOpen Association Inc unveiled itself with five sponsor members — Apple Computer Inc , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , IBM Corp , Motorola Inc and Thomson-CSF SA — spending an initial $750,000 and annual $250,000 to fund the Billerica , Massachusetts-based outfit . |
| 24 | The PowerOpen Association Inc unveiled itself last week with five sponsor members — Apple , Bull , IBM , Motorola and Thomson-CSF — spending an initial $750,000 and annual $250,000 to fund the Billerica , Massachusetts-based outfit . |
| 25 | Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc said it will shortly start shipping the Cray S-MP system , the first in a planned series of Sparc-based servers from Cray Research Superservers Inc , the subsidiary it formed around the Floating Point Systems Inc assets it acquired late last year . |
| 26 | The cars were initially unvestibuled , but in 1929 car 153 had its driving platforms enclosed ( see p. 102 ) and the last two , 51 and 177 , were built with vestibules . |
| 27 | Secondly , until 1926 , at law ( as opposed to equity ) no limited interests in chattels personal could be created — the notion of estates had no application to chattels personal till the Law of Property Act 1925 made it possible to create an entailed interest in them . |
| 28 | He was just as at home behind the wheel of a Sports Car as he was in a Grand Prix car , and his passion for all branches of the sport possible hindered his quest for the world title . |
| 29 | The Sex Discrimination Act 1986 made it unlawful for an employer to discriminate between men and women as regards retirement age . |
| 30 | Whether or not this advance notice had any bearing on the government 's response , when the subpoenas were served on 29 September , the FBI , the DEA , the State Department , the National Security Agency , the CIA and the National Security Council each made it clear that they had no intention of complying with them . |