Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [noun] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second point is is to echo the er the words that Matt just said about that lady who was converted . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Here were the lips that hours before had described their owner as nothing and nobody . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I suspected this was the reason compounds and camps always had rings of protective lights . |
| 9 | Although teething troubles dogged the first week of pedestrianisation in Darlington traders and shoppers generally welcomed the scheme . |
| 10 | Clergy and laity jointly seized the opportunity to demand laws curtailing crown abuses . |
| 11 | The bantams and chickens always seemed to co-habitate without quarrels , something of a miracle for the bantam cock used to strut around as though he was king of the entire run . |
| 12 | There was no way for users to communicate their difficulties to designers and systems just did not warn the inexperienced of potentially dangerous actions . |
| 13 | Starting with a blank sheet of paper and using the wisdom accumulated through more than 150 years of life-saving , the designers and operators together specified a new concept in lifeboats . |
| 14 | Their voices and laughter then filled the shearers ' quarters as the two raft parties held a post-mortem on the trip while they ate . |
| 15 | As is well known , Tolkien 's grand design , or desire , was to give back to his own country the legends that had been taken from it in the Dark Ages after the Conquest , when elves and woodwoses and sigelhearwan too had all been forced into oblivion . |
| 16 | The mast had been up three months and Kaptan still had one week of his vacation left when Osvaldo made his move . |
| 17 | After World War II , Dawson 's output of books and articles increasingly stressed the twin themes of Europe and education . |
| 18 | He lay on the divan with his eyes closed , as usual , and Piers and Antoinette obviously thought it was a pose . |
| 19 | Hotels and restaurants and clubs always opened their doors to anyone caught above ground when the bombing started . |
| 20 | He was a member of the Howie Committee on the future provision for S5 and S6 in secondary schools and David also played a part in the development of educational programmes on television in Scotland and Zambia . |
| 21 | Conflicting demands and timescales also made the project more difficult than it needed to be . |
| 22 | Barely able to control her shivering delight and excitement as his lips and tongue rhythmically stroked her swollen nipples , while his hands sensuously caressed her body , she shuddered violently as she felt the warmth of his skin against her own soft flesh , the gentle pressure of his fingers as he stroked her thighs . |
| 23 | The owner of a scrapyard is counting his losses after fire almost destroyed his premises . |
| 24 | It would thus be only for those films with generally low levels of subjective risk or few moving objects that subjects actually looked at the fixed information even in the recognition phase and were thus able to be biased by it . |
| 25 | And it would n't have been until the development of the first cities that streetwalkers really started to come into their own 11,000 — 12,000 years later . |
| 26 | Is it possible Geoffrey Hoskin to have some sort of sort out , where people could be encouraged , compensated perhaps to leave their villages and towns and go back to the Republic from which their parents or grandparents originally came ? |
| 27 | It is hardly surprising that the Largo of No. 88 , one of the loveliest slow movements that Haydn ever wrote , should encourage expansive treatment , but Kuijken makes it far too heavy , seriously holding up the flow of the great melody with overemphasis and exaggerated pauses , all made the more obtrusive without continuo . |
| 28 | That came after full-back Mike Rayer had dropped a huge up and under from Craig Brown beneath his posts and Olonga just won the touch ahead of Hill . |
| 29 | Building contractors and employers soon became aware that the contracts into which they had entered no longer made provision for those situations which were beginning to arise : but new standard forms were slow to emerge , and it is only in recent years that these have proliferated . |
| 30 | In these years the Unitarians were forced out of the Dissenting Deputies and had to fight for control of their chapel property against other dissenters ; tensions and fractures recurrently emerged within the Society of Friends . |