Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clerk argued that it was not a " competent application " . |
| 2 | Parliament announced that it would hold an emergency debate on the accidents . |
| 3 | A nice government official helping to run the camp asked if I would mind staying until all the old and sick and pregnant women were flown out , and of course we were only too pleased to stay . |
| 4 | Distressing as it was for the Victorian establishment to contemplate having descended from monkeys , it would not be long before new advances in physiology and biochemistry revealed that we virtually are monkeys — differing from the chimpanzee , for instance , by a single chromosome in our genetic code . |
| 5 | Quite , quite frankly I , I ca n't see Walsall moving , because it seems to have been money wasted if they 've made Fellas Park good and then they move somewhere else . |
| 6 | do you think that was a deliberate decision made that it should be part of the flats rather than somewhere outside , |
| 7 | He wrote in the Times : ‘ Last night in Sheffield , image throttled intellect and a quiet voice in every reporter present whispered that there was something disgusting about the occasion . |
| 8 | In the end Flimnap realized that his wife was not in love with me , and had not done anything wrong , but he was still angry with me . |
| 9 | Looking ahead , I suppose travel would be nice , if only the opportunity arose and I had the courage to go with it . |
| 10 | Barbara 's foot skidded and she fell to the floor in the ‘ corridor ’ between the hessian screens . |
| 11 | The three hour the recreation chairman asked that we er , standard bills for garage for petrol and Centre for the standard items , . |
| 12 | ‘ The police and ambulance arrived on the scene very rapidly and the other driver admitted that it was her fault . |
| 13 | Again , he has been prepared to be physical when the necessity arose while his choice of options has been admirable for one so short of international experience . |
| 14 | Even though your knees trembled and your heart fluttered and you felt weak with longing , how could you melt , knowing that ? |
| 15 | The Lieutenant recommended that we bring her to you , as she was carrying this . ’ |
| 16 | And the flamboyant Chelsea chairman announced that his 11-year marriage to wife Pam is over . |
| 17 | At 3pm on Tuesday , the first closing date , the Dragon board announced that it had received acceptances from 750 shareholders in respect of 39.71 per cent of Drayton Asia 's issued share capital . |
| 18 | Then when a photographer asked if he could take his picture , Penn said , ‘ Please do n't , but thank you for asking . ’ |
| 19 | When it was opened , British Rail argued that it was important because it would not be necessary to improve the lines around London . |
| 20 | A random sequencing strategy applied to two large Sal I restriction fragments ( SB and SD ) of the African swine fever virus ( ASFV ) genome revealed that they might encode proteins similar to the two largest RNA polymerase subunits of eukaryotes , poxviruses and Escherichia coli . |
| 21 | After a few minutes ' silent reflection , however , I saw that the difficulty arose because we had read the phrase in quite different ways . |
| 22 | During pre-trial hearings at the Old Bailey , Mr Greenway 's counsel argued that he should be tried by his fellow MPs and not a court of law . |
| 23 | The trial judge rejected that submission and , on appeal , counsel argued that he had not specifically dealt with the issue of breach of the Code . |
| 24 | At Oxford Crown Court his counsel argued that he did not intend to harm Miss Lamplugh and had planned to commit suicide by crashing her car . |
| 25 | It is seen in The Facts to belong to the times in which the writer lived when he wrote the novel , when opposition to the Vietnam War , and to a President Johnson perceived as monstrous , took to the street-wisdom of a farcical obscenity . |
| 26 | Looks as if the message that an army of outsiders is needed to turn IBM Corp 's disparate businesses around is beginning to get through : yesterday the Personal Software Products division announced that it had recalled William Rich to be general manager , worldwide sales and marketing — he had left the company but had been acting as a consultant to it ; it has also tapped David Proctor as vice-president of products — Proctor is formerly president of Xerox Computer Services and had been president and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp ; before he took that position , he had served 23 years with IBM . |
| 27 | The 5½ million inhabitants of England and Wales in 1700 had swelled to nearly 7 million in 1760 ; in 1801 the first census revealed that there were over 9 million people ; by 1811 there were 10½ million . |
| 28 | The other radicals who were present argued that they should join with the eleven newly elected people , ‘ reasoning that since we held the initiative we would be able to force the pace , drag some of them along in our wake and force the others quickly to resign ’ . |
| 29 | The Portsmouth defence creaked but it never cracked as Andy Mutch and Sean Taylor tried to get a goal . |
| 30 | Interfax reported on Oct. 11 that the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry admitted that its forces had been forced to withdraw from positions in the area , |