Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [conj] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Netherlands Court of Appeals on July 5 overturned the murder conviction of Gerald Harte and upheld the acquittal of three other Irish people , Sean Hick , Paul Hughes and Donna Maguire . |
| 2 | We beat a retreat from the Queen Victoria Suite and climbed the stairs towards the second floor . |
| 3 | Rafsanjani also met the Turkish Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut and concluded an agreement on the sale of Iranian oil and gas to Turkey . |
| 4 | The recent paving of the Piazza della Signoria was undertaken by the City Council with the advice and support of the relevant heritage authorities and replaced the paving laid by the Grand Duke of Tuscany , Ferdinand III , in the late 1790s . |
| 5 | Papcun , Krashen , Terbeek , Remington and Harshman ( 1974 ) presented short Morse code sequences to naive and experienced Morse operators and found a significant right ear advantage in both groups of subjects . |
| 6 | Sally Line donated a crossing to another team who reached Paris , others were given coach tickets at Victoria Coach Station , teams reached Bristol , Lindisfarne and Gretna Green whilst the Elephant Washing Company went to Windsor Safari Park and washed an elephant . |
| 7 | ‘ Supporters of the parish council scheme have consistently claimed majority support and dismissed the objectives as a vociferous minority . |
| 8 | Burgon winded his way through the Bangor defence and passed the ball to Minnis whose shot was well saved by Brown . |
| 9 | She could not get a grant or income support and had no option of going part time . |
| 10 | Having escaped from detention with several of his supporters , he proclaimed himself commander-in-chief of the Kaba camp and demanded the release of other officers arrested after the May 27 incident . |
| 11 | The control subjects did not receive either placebo or loperamide oxide tablets but underwent an identical series of measurements on one occasion . |
| 12 | Daisy was still giggling when she got home to Snow Cottage and made the mistake at lunch of telling Perdita that Ricky had read the lesson . |
| 13 | Best known for her incredible chocolate-coated performance as Nicola , the depressive bulimic , in Mike Leigh 's Life Is Sweet ( for which she won the LA Critics award and gained the admiration of pervy chocoholics everywhere ) , the 28-year-old from Rawtenstall is now enjoying massive critical acclaim and popular success on stage and screen . |
| 14 | He must have forgotten there was a wind change , in any case a great mass of sand was blown in the direction of the little Base Camp and smothered the tea swindle but , worse still , it also smothered the various Instructors who were resting whilst the pupils were carrying out a detail in the air . |
| 15 | I replied gently that we were there to describe building plans and had no involvement in North Sea Gas . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's like fairyland , ’ Susan commented referring to the candle light and the light from the storm lanterns that illuminated the various windows they passed . |
| 17 | Karen , Paula and Drew went to Los Alamos and had the tests . |
| 18 | Twice Round The Daffodils was ostensibly a more serious subject — about life in a TB sanatorium and caused a modicum of controversy among people who thought that tuberculosis was not a matter for ‘ Carry On ’ style laughs . |
| 19 | Greg pondered on this information during his teaching hours that occupied the remainder of the day . |
| 20 | The cart-track crossed by a brick culvert and climbed the opposite slope to a five-barred gate in the thorn hedge . |
| 21 | The clothes , the buildings , the pitch and intonation of voices speaking Amharic ; the smell of rancid butter , of red peppers and burning cow dung that permeated the town ; the packs of savage dogs that roamed the streets and whose howling rose and fell through the night ; an occasional corpse hanging on the gallows-tree ; beggars who had lost a hand or foot for theft ; debtors and creditors wandering round chained together ; strings of donkeys bringing in firewood ; caravans of mules ; the crowded market where men and women squatted on the ground , selling earthen pots , lengths of cloths , skins , cartridges , bars of salt , silver ornaments , heaps of grain , vegetables , beer — all this combined to create a scene and an atmosphere unlike any other in the world . |
| 22 | Sometimes , he said , no hand depressed a Morse key or lifted a telephone or received a signal , and even the teleprinters , tired of their own unending chack-chacking , switched themselves off . |
| 23 | Her frantic anxiety gave Marie extra strength : it was only her brute force that dragged the drum back when it skidded off the path and began to slither over the grass down towards the channel . |
| 24 | He knelt on the sanctuary steps and began the Divine Office . |
| 25 | She opened the bag and got out a powder compact that had a small round mirror on the inside of the lid . |
| 26 | He was driving a grey saloon car and had a distinctive ’ flat top ’ hair style . |
| 27 | He came up to Peter Young 's men who had advanced , after some losses , through a quayside warehouse and reached a yard ( see diagram p. 32 ) . |
| 28 | She went on to Baku , where she recorded in her journal information about the young naphtha/oil industry and described the Zoroastrian fire temple and the Maiden 's Tower . |
| 29 | He stiffened the sinews , jutted the jaw , summoned the Baker blood and delivered the ‘ once more into the breach dear friends ’ soliloquy with fiery passion . |
| 30 | He had changed physically but the movement of his body down the carriage for coffee still had that freedom that set him apart from the suited composure of the brief case brigade that filled the train . |