Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps Richard had the best of it : at Queen Eleanor 's court he encountered troubadours and intellectuals who taught him the social graces . |
| 2 | When Lambert found Kimberley and Killion they were out on the field , looking at a map laid on the bottom wing of a plane . |
| 3 | Self-taught as an artist , Bacon designed furniture and rugs which he showed at Queensbury Mews Studio in 1929 . |
| 4 | Some of the early Emperors built tombs and temples which survive in part , and whose intricate carvings can still be made out . |
| 5 | The Church throughout the world received orders and instructions which it obeyed willingly enough , though sometimes it regretted that there were no arrangements for dialogue and that it had not been invited to collaborate ; the result was that unity had to be lived out in passive acceptance rather than celebrated in fraternity ( Pensiamo al Concilio 9 ; see Hebblethwaite , 1984 , p. 409 ) . |
| 6 | Erm okay so it 's she , Shirley you got slippers and Terry you 're getting slippers . |
| 7 | Moreover , in the course of his research Kaplan uncovered evidence that Mahler himself conducted the movement at a tempo far more brisk than is currently in vogue . |
| 8 | I handed Mary and Dad their cups of sweet tea and they both smiled . |
| 9 | They joined doctors and parents who were celebrating ten years of research into Rhesus disease.Nick Clark reports . |
| 10 | Written with humility , perception , compassion and anger , each leading into the other , it 's a portrayal of some of the unknown and disregarded men and women who live in the poverty of Thatcherite Britain today.c Its author , Robert Wilson , is still a young man , and already a writer of stature . |
| 11 | He showed slides and graphs which revealed that children living very near high-voltage overhead lines showed more instances of leukaemia and other cancers . |
| 12 | At C. Arms met Mrs and Katarina who took also the two first from there for Lydham 's Heath . |
| 13 | If Hadow indicated direction and purpose it was not until the end of the Second World War that such ideals would begin to be realised . |
| 14 | They exposed strengths and weaknesses they did n't know were theirs . |
| 15 | For E. B. Tylor ( 1832–1917 ) , as for so many believers in ‘ progress ’ who observed communities and cultures which , unlike fossil man , had not died out these were not so much inferior by nature as representatives of an earlier stage of evolution on the road to modern civilisation . |
| 16 | FREE School meals will be given to all entitled children , Essex county councillors were assured yesterday , after one member raised fears that pupils who had not returned an application form would go hungry . |
| 17 | The impulse proved at first a happy one , for in the graveyard Miss Fergusson discovered tombstones and crosses whose Celtic air recalled those of her native Ireland ; a smile of approval crossed her dutiful features . |
| 18 | The defence of the coastline had also to be seen to , and was not infrequently found to be wanting , most particularly when small forces of enemy soldiers attacked the English shore and ravaged villages and towns which they found undefended . |
| 19 | The first well drilled in block 110/15 [ LASMO 30 per cent ] discovered oil and gas which was tested at rates of 1,370 bopd and 78 mmcfd . |
| 20 | It hit sectors and people who largely escaped before , the skilled , the clerical workers , the managers and the professionals who 've been badly mauled this time , and where last time around er the service sector was expanding to mop up some of those who 'd lost their jobs in manufacturing , this time the service sector too has been in deep trouble . |
| 21 | Mr Lewis warned judges and magistrates who have been jailing offenders at an unprecedented rate , that pushing the service too far and too fast would create what he called unacceptable risks . |
| 22 | This subject , which was illustrated by slides , prompted questions and discussion which took proceedings up to the end of the afternoon . |
| 23 | for it would have been possible , they argue , to move towards a system that examined knowledge and skills which crossed old subject boundaries ; a new way of looking both at the sciences and the arts could have been incorporated in the new syllabuses . |
| 24 | Now Michael has written a new stage play Brother Mine which , as the title suggests , tells of two brothers named Nicky and Freddie whose resemblance to the real thing , as we see as the piece is acted out for Alfred 's approval in the second act . |
| 25 | Labour consumer affairs spokesman Nigel Griffiths warned Sega and Nintendo they had three weeks to act . |
| 26 | The enthusiastic ones included Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia which , a mere 18 years later , found themselves on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain to be eligible for membership . ) |
| 27 | We heard of daily torture , public hangings , guards who walked about with whips , gas chambers , castrated children and prisoners who lay dead for hours in the communal beds . |
| 28 | During 1918 they met principally at Lord Derby 's breakfasts , from which Baldwin recorded impressions and interchanges which indicate both that the Prime Minister was a near stranger to him and that he was not above a little daring toadying . |
| 29 | If York or London needed Bell or Ramsey they had a moral duty to move whether or not they wanted it . |
| 30 | He could also play a variety of instruments ( and passed on this ability to his children ) and knew songs and melodies which had never been written down — just passed on from ear to ear via generations of Dalesmen . |