Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty arose in that some of the children had several stools per day , but apparently evacuated incompletely , as shown by periodic passage of very large amounts of stool or the presence of a faecal impaction . |
| 2 | For , as Prior of Scone and its guardian , he bore round his neck the Brecbennoch , the little silver reliquary casket of St Columba which was all the Celtic church could bring to any battle while its Abbots of Iona and Armagh and Kells disputed with one another in the turmoil of Irish battle , Irish famine , Irish plague , demanding the grace of St Columba and first claim to the aid of his relics . |
| 3 | Sheldon Krimsky 's book stems from this study , but in the light of the other books devoted to this same goal that have appeared over the past five years , it is worth considering what Genetic Alchemy adds to previous efforts . |
| 4 | Roxborough 's words clattered against one another . |
| 5 | A stream of military ram-jets flew from one such vent , into a sky the hue of bruised blood in a badly beaten body . |
| 6 | At the meeting federation vice-chairman Richard Coyles called for 3,000 more beat bobbies throughout the country to prevent ‘ anarchy ’ in cities . |
| 7 | But when Mike Mannion cut loose the home side collapsed to 127 all out . |
| 8 | Gossip retailed by those selfsame people , the scions of higher platforms on the social scaffolding , who came for drinks at Cliff Top . |
| 9 | Inquiries by The Independent have confirmed that while West Midlands Police were publicly acknowledging the existence of four or five complaints against the squad , its internal investigations department knew of three more in which serious allegations had been made against detectives . |
| 10 | The Independent has learnt that the complaints department knew of three more cases . |
| 11 | nobody went , dear old Maisie went to all that trouble |
| 12 | As the hours wore on , the sun became increasing hot , and the wind died to little more than a murmur . |
| 13 | From there Laughton progressed to two more familiar roles , Poirot and Pickwick , before scoring another big success as the Chicago gangster loosely modelled on Al Capone in On the Spot ( 1930 ) by Edgar Wallace [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | For fifteen minutes interviewer and applicant sat opposite one another . |
| 15 | [ And on the next day ] Dr Hunter and Mr Cruikshanks came at 9 this morning and put my wife into the Box on and in 130 lb weight of Paris plaister at 18d a bag . |
| 16 | The actresses , of course , were frequently loaned gowns by the house free of charge for the publicity that would be gained when they were pictured wearing them , and there were those among the society women who considered themselves above coming to the couture , ordering instead from the videos that nowadays replaced the weeks of shows of the old days — and staying away all the more determinedly as the great Paris houses vied with one another to tempt them to lend their presence to the occasion . |
| 17 | Caroline Little 's first recreational class in Rowlands Castle village hall led to many more in the surrounding area of HAMPSHIRE especially when she was joined by Anne Locke and Sarah Smith ( both now living and teaching Medau in France ) and Wendy Middleton . |
| 18 | The road from Hanover to Nordhausen passed through all that was best in West Germany and all that was worst in the East . |
| 19 | Now Darwin got from this this idea that somehow sudden things are miraculous , are natural , erm but admittedly they may happen but I mean there is a miraculous element about sudden things , whereas things that are natural should happen gradually , and he retained this view in spite of changing his ideas about all sorts of other things , and let us now see why the gradualism was so important a component of his theory of evolution . |
| 20 | It was , therefore , not unexpected when Cooper and Culyer found in 1970 that regional hospital inequalities had persisted over the years and in some instances were in fact increasing . |
| 21 | For , in the act of creativity , struggle and conflict are necessary elements instilled in all that is created . |
| 22 | Even the most popular of girls soon discovered that in this highly competitive world where models vied with one another for the most glamorous jobs and the wealthiest and best-looking men there was far more bitchiness than in the provinces — and Paula was far from popular . |
| 23 | The Lab found properly locked when the Assistant Police Liaison Officer and the young C.O. arrived at eight-thirty this morning . |
| 24 | Twenty-six-year-old Christopher Saggers escaped with little more than a broken elbow and a neck injury after falling from the 22nd floor of flats in Salford , Greater Manchester , on Thursday night . |
| 25 | Woodruffe listened to all this with deepening anxiety . |
| 26 | Morag and Granny looked at one another and began to laugh and laugh . |
| 27 | The Australians looked at one another . |
| 28 | The passage continued for another few metres . |
| 29 | The problem was that no one stayed with him , and England subsided to 174 all out . |
| 30 | All of the companies in the Division turned in good half yearly figures with a particularly strong performance from thanks to record prices for pigs . |