Example sentences of "[art] [n mass] [pers pn] [vb past] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was awarded the £40 he had been ordered to pay in excess fares plus interest plus costs . |
| 2 | Ants of knowledge were pick-pick-picking at her brain , fighting their way in , and she had no defences against them , but the data they brought were swirled and fragmented pixels that frightened her with their strangeness . |
| 3 | A lot of them related to the data I 'd been passing but also he 'd want to know who I 'd been talking to . |
| 4 | The fish I chose were : |
| 5 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 6 | My parents ' steadfast refusal to countenance the anti-semitism common among many of the people they knew was my first lesson as a young child against accepting hearsay rather than the evidence of your own experience . |
| 7 | Most of the people we asked were surprised to discover the water 's origins . |
| 8 | It felt like abandoning all the people we had been working with , whom we had been encouraging to organize and demand their rights . |
| 9 | Anyway , the people she met were all in a hurry , striding along with heads down in the rain , and no one appeared to notice her . |
| 10 | But most of the people she telephoned were happy to see her . |
| 11 | But if his reputation as one of the great Kings of French history is anything to go by , then the means he used were justified by the end , the destruction of the Angevin Empire . |
| 12 | The stations and stock were in immaculate condition , and all the staff we met were welcoming and more than polite . |
| 13 | Without a word , he took the staff I 'd been using , drove it into the ground with his sledge hammer , secured it with guy ropes and tied a washing line for me from it to the Land Rover . |
| 14 | The friendship with Isabella Stewart Gardner lasted a lifetime and the artist also acted as her adviser on purchasing art : among the works he recommended was Gentile Bellini 's ‘ Portrait of a Turkish scribe or painter ’ . |
| 15 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 16 | An extra charge of one shilling ( 5p ) was made for permission to view the house , and the £5,500 it made was added to the Queen 's charitable fund . |
| 17 | JOHN GRIFFITHS , trolley retrieval , East Filton : ‘ On holiday in New Zealand I ate a fish I thought was cod but it was slightly different . |