Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb base] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the England ‘ B ’ side played the first 45 minutes of that match with the command and control that seemed sure to produce a notable victory . |
| 2 | The mixture of usefulness and display that explained the growing importance of the chaplains also lay behind the rise of other household officers . |
| 3 | The cat miaowed piteously again , and suddenly Virginia 's kind heart broke through the spell of fear and doubt that kept her feet glued to the path . |
| 4 | To Luce , a work of art was something intrinsically beautiful or fascinating , something produced with skill or merit that stirred the senses and provoked pleasure or sadness , or some more complicated response . |
| 5 | So had the cheerful chat and bustle that had formed the barely noticed background to our conversation . |
| 6 | It was a kind of loop and roll that dodged the pursuing aircraft and brought you up behind it . |
| 7 | The sound of the explosion melded into a terrible noise that was like an animal dying in awful , bellowing pain , but beneath that sound of agony was a harsh metallic scrape and clash that punched at my belly and eardrums . |
| 8 | She had tough parents to match , but an elder sister Gloria of such melting tenderness and charm that left one confounded by the biological processes . |
| 9 | There was a great gash across his face , a heavy blow from a sword or axe that had smashed his nose and cheekbone , and slashed right across his eyes . |
| 10 | The salesperson may pre-empt the objection in the following manner : ‘ My company is smaller than most in the industry which means that we respond quicker to our customers ’ needs and try that bit harder to make sure our customers are happy . ’ |
| 11 | However , others have been content to accept the message in Problems of Social Policy : for example , Peter Gosden , in his detailed study of education in the war , cites Titmuss as the authoritative source on the social consequences of evacuation ; likewise , Raynes Minns concludes that the revelations of the children 's condition ‘ made headlines , and once again , as in 1914 , when the physical condition of army recruits was found to be so poor , war forced a British government to recognise the extremes of poverty and neglect that survived in our cities , and eventually to act by expanding our welfare services ’ . |
| 12 | The atmosphere of suspicion and intrigue that pervaded the White House , with the President increasingly remote from contact with everyday reality , was also captured by the famous tapes . |
| 13 | AFTER SEVEN years of perfecting an original and incisive style of investigative journalism in the provinces , I relished the opportunity to move to the big city and expose the callous greed and avarice that had poisoned the cynical entertainment industry for so long . |
| 14 | But after 1936 — a turning point for Poland — only the French continued to supply finance ( over 2,600 million francs ) and roughly half of the trade credits and finance that flowed through the economy came directly from the state . |
| 15 | If I had found the cramped interior of the U-boat at Kiel oppressive , it was nothing to the claustrophobia I felt inside the midget submarine , and I marvelled again at the courage and calm that had enabled Place and his crew to live a daily life in such surroundings , far less undertake and brilliantly accomplish their mission . |
| 16 | He seemed far away from Ruth , in a trance whose nature she could only guess at — but free , she thought , of the despair and anger that beset him in their own world . |
| 17 | He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day . |
| 18 | She thought of the bleak , futuristic décor and the grey river beneath , and nodded abruptly before other thoughts could crowd unbidden into her head and start that agonised melting all over again . |
| 19 | Jenny grinned , that wide , slightly toothy grin which she tried so hard to avoid , and which filled her whole face with an animation and glow that turned Antony 's heart upside down . |
| 20 | It was the midfield and attack that won us the league . |
| 21 | The first glimpse of Father Philip had made his heart turn and contract in him with the pain of the memories that tugged him back towards Aber , older memories than the bitterness and anger that had driven him away . |
| 22 | His lips had shown a passion and need that had equalled her own but he had not pressed it any further . |
| 23 | We could have harnessed up the goat-cart and come and fetched you . |
| 24 | In the pre-unified past , Sotheby 's sold , without a peep of protest , a Pater and Lancret that had been looted from Potsdam ( The Art Newspaper , No. 1 , October 1990 , p. 1 ) ( subsequently reacquired ) , and negotiated with the Kupferstichkabinett , Berlin-Dahlem , in the sale of drawings from the Theodor Allan Heinrich estate , some of which had been looted . |
| 25 | All it had been was a futile expression of the frustration and anger that bubbled inside her . |
| 26 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 27 | Anita would you get a reading book love and sit and read it ? |
| 28 | He had encouraged and praised her , bullied her a little when she needed bullying , and given her the love and support that had made her feel , even in the darkest moments of self-doubt , that she could rise above all the problems and emerge triumphant . |
| 29 | It was an image that spread and took root everywhere , bringing with it a tradition of atrocious performances — sloppy , flat and prettifying — that lasted throughout his lifetime , for the entire 19th century and for too much of the 20th . |
| 30 | Actually I 've been I was sitting in the lounge today right and you know the situation there see his car going round the corner and stop and got out the car beaming at me , I said cor give him my old ! |