Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , her heart in her mouth , she went into the pub , located the public call box in the lobby and dialled the number the porter had given her . |
| 2 | They were glad to see it , as they had packed some food in one of the suitcases , and directly the porter had gone they set about preparing a meal . |
| 3 | It looked as if the defence had made its point . |
| 4 | The response has taken my breath away , I had no idea there were so many people who cared . |
| 5 | He said hundreds of thousands of jobs and lives had been destroyed while the Premier had done nothing but watch it happen . |
| 6 | The Treeman had kept them safe in the deepest wildwoods while war raged . |
| 7 | Of the quarter bequeathed property , the majority has sold it or expected to do so . |
| 8 | When the majority have formed their beautiful chrysalises , which can vary in colour from bright green to spangled gold , it is a good idea to collect those caterpillars that are still eating and release them into a large clump of nettles so you can concentrate on hatching the rest . |
| 9 | JUST AS the calculator has produced its own brand of innumeracy , so the word-processor is generating its own style of illiteracy . |
| 10 | Public administration and management in central government has stood up to these strains , but the weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the last 25 years . |
| 11 | The weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the past 25 years . " |
| 12 | The remainder have had their teeth drawn . ’ |
| 13 | By this time the guitar had made its popular impact , and in just five years time it would be considered virtually the instrument of musical expression . |
| 14 | On the repeal of the acts in 1886 The Shield had ended its campaign . |
| 15 | If you do your searches during the evening when the crowds have departed you will be able to sweep the head of your detector over the very spots where people dropped their cash . |
| 16 | At times he had been his conscience too — when the Prince had lost his temper or been rude to someone , Colborne would write him a note and tell him so . |
| 17 | The prince had asked him to take over a small present ; Simon had stuck it in a pocket and thought no more about it , only when he saw Constanza he decided to deliver it in person . |
| 18 | The Prince had expanded his interests considerably by 1985 , and had already made his famous ‘ carbuncle ’ speech . |
| 19 | The Prince had positioned himself just behind the six guns of the Dutch battery . |
| 20 | Indeed , the French envoy de Craon knew more , claiming the Prince had told him about Lady Eleanor 's death long before the porter had even reached Woodstock . |
| 21 | Corbett just sat motionless , impassive , until the Prince had recovered himself . |
| 22 | If you had not , and the prince had consigned me again to that man 's house , I should hardly have known what to do , or where to turn . |
| 23 | Item — the Prince had claimed he had no involvement in Lady Eleanor 's death but both he and his favourite appeared nervous . |
| 24 | As they approached , the prince had found it almost impossible to tell the one from the other . |
| 25 | But , in changing direction , the hurricane had given them ten minutes of further respite . |
| 26 | Lio ! rt gasped at the sudden turn of speed with which the wizard had dodged his killing stroke and , with that desperation only available to the really terrified , Rincewind uncoiled like a snake and launched himself across the space between them . |
| 27 | On a recent visit to WACC in London , he explained how his release from 17 months of brutal imprisonment under the dictator Duvalier in the mid-1970s had led him to devote his life to the struggle for justice and democracy in Haiti . |
| 28 | Now he was into jazz because he 'd heard that the Yuppies had hijacked it after Clint Eastwood 's film on Charlie Parker , and had moved back a decade to the late ‘ forties . |
| 29 | The change has produced what Peter Drucker , in a 1976 book , ‘ The Unseen Revolution ’ , called pension-fund socialism : the only successful form of socialism ever implemented . |
| 30 | The Knelles had raised their children to feel proud of Ireland . |