Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [noun] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cable & Wireless also enjoyed a rally , leaping 9p to 653p following a 16% rise in Hong Kong Telecom 's interim figures . |
| 2 | Day 16 ) Camp where Bessie supposedly shot her husband , Glen . |
| 3 | ie Harvey & Charlton only played a hanful of times together , during which time Cooper was injured . |
| 4 | A super idea for hackers like me but the R & A immediately banned it , the swines . ’ |
| 5 | His personal attention — ‘ rain , snow or frost never kept him in ’ — and his scrupulousness in the matter of estimates gradually secured country house clients , but his expertise as a house planner took time to develop . |
| 6 | These are the East European blessings of Mr Gorbachev 's liberalisation : the changes would surely not be taking place if Brezhnev or Chernenko still ruled the Kremlin . |
| 7 | Those who bemoan the weakening of the governmental role of parliaments are not only failing to bear English history in mind where Parliament never had that role , they are forgetting continental history as well . |
| 8 | Chappell & Co. now appealed to the House of Lords . |
| 9 | There was a slight hollow in the field beyond the old fortifications to the east of Thorpe Manor where water sometimes collected . |
| 10 | Apart from a handful of friends that were his own age , like Nicholas Soames and Lord Romsey — who were still fourteen or fifteen years Diana 's senior — most of the people Charles enjoyed seeing were older , with the result that Diana frequently found she was socializing with her father 's , or even grandfather 's , generation . |
| 11 | The irony that Charlton finally got back to the First Division in 1986 , the year their exile from The Valley began , is n't lost on Ufton . |
| 12 | I find it a sad small dramatic irony that Leslie never knew what I did at Bletchley , and , naturally , was unaware even of the existence of Ultra , let alone its significance in his own military enterprises . |
| 13 | In future that style always carried the ‘ wrong ’ neckline . |
| 14 | There is little indication that parishioners much opposed the removal from their parish of strangers who might become chargeable or , when the act of 1795 had changed the situation , after they had actually become chargeable . |
| 15 | So there 's no clear indication that Samson ever lived here in that case then ? |
| 16 | The second point is is to echo the er the words that Matt just said about that lady who was converted . |
| 17 | Of course , neither Brezhnev nor Andropov ever received the letters . |
| 18 | John MacCunn , Professor of Philosophy at Liverpool University and author of several standard texts on citizenship and character , was keen to impress upon his readers that rights alone did not make the citizen ; what mattered was the way in which they were used : democracy itself was only a beginning , not an end . |
| 19 | Here were the lips that hours before had described their owner as nothing and nobody . |
| 20 | Buxton and Sturge both wished each other 's efforts well and hoped they would be complementary . |
| 21 | Your kindness and sincerity really did restore my faith in human nature . |
| 22 | His conquest and annexation of the khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan further inflated his self-confidence . |
| 23 | As my legs and arms suddenly felt shaky like they were going to give way , I decided that in this case ignorance would indeed have been bliss . |
| 24 | In late November 1989 , Geaga offered to give military support to Aoun if Syrian troops attacked the latter 's Baabda headquarters [ see p. 37030 ] , but as the likelihood of a Syrian offensive diminished , relations between Aoun and Geaga again deteriorated . |
| 25 | Relations between working class husbands and wives never lacked affection and it may well be that the poor , early twentieth century working class wife derived as great a satisfaction from the mix of activities she undertook to sustain her family as her modern counterpart does from , typically , a part-time job and the performance of less arduous domestic tasks ( with varying degrees of help from her husband ) . |
| 26 | In the Esso case both Lords Hodson and Pearce specifically rested their judgments in striking down a solus agreement which extended to 21 years on the basis of public policy . |
| 27 | Kathleen and Jimmy both visited London a number of times to find their sister but she had vanished . |
| 28 | Geography and topography effectively ensured Ireland 's immunity from the Teutonic invasions — from the Saxons , for example , who were to overrun England and pit Wotan and the Germanic pantheon against a still fledgling Christianity . |
| 29 | The issue seemed to be settled when a number of studies were carried out that showed that animals and humans still regulated their food intake even after the stomach had been removed , an experimental procedure analogous to ablation of part of the CNS . |
| 30 | From the castle , armed Jews and Christians now faced Muslim militias to the west where before Muslim gunmen in the keep had faced Christians and Jews to the east and south . |