Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [noun] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made that noise that men who drink beer make , and wiped his mouth on the back of his wrist . |
| 2 | In those days , marriage was mainly a matter of economy and family ; it was not normally possible to marry for love , and indeed the Courts ruled that love and marriage were incompatible . |
| 3 | The two leaders also agreed that visa and currency exchange-free travel to East Germany for West Germans and West Berliners , planned to come into force next January , would be brought forward to December 24 . |
| 4 | The alternative approach to treating an infectious disease , by means of chemotherapy , made little progress until viruses could be grown and studied in cultures outside living organisms . |
| 5 | It made little difference as York 's full back Richard Stevenson bamboozled Novos with a hat-trick of exciting tries from set piece moves , the fourth being touched down by scrum half Martyn Harrison in the 49th minute . |
| 6 | In an emotional reunion they hugged each other as West Brom 's chairman Bert Millichip told the assembled press that Johnson 's career at the Hawthorns was secure . |
| 7 | Margrida asked that evening as Ashley returned to the drawing-room . |
| 8 | The Ministry of Social Affairs announced that compensation and pensions would be paid to victims ' dependents . |
| 9 | Sadly , over half of the sample experienced some fear or anxiety about growing old themselves . |
| 10 | Increasing financial difficulties became another problem when Rotha Lintorn Orman 's mother cut her allowance , believing that the BF had been taken over by disreputable elements , who lived off her daughter 's money and manipulated her by making her increasingly dependent on alcohol and drugs . |
| 11 | The workman manipulated some knobs and levers , closed a cage , stood back , and pressed a button on a console . |
| 12 | Seconds later , when he marched off at the interval , Gooch got another ovation and handshakes all round from the Australians . |
| 13 | Back at the Hotel they " got another horse and gig to take us to Lagg , a distance of nine miles north where our good missionary lives . |
| 14 | This new dialectical relationship between spectator and screen image led some critics and film-makers to make large claims for the avant-garde film as inherently more progressive and political , because of its self-reflexiveness and because of its refusal to give in to the tendency of mainstream film to construct an ‘ imaginary identity ’ . |
| 15 | Ronni wondered , as she flung some T-shirts and things into a bag , if she ought to have put up a stronger fight against Guido . |
| 16 | The secretary-general of the UN , Boutros Boutros-Ghali , announced this week that UN troops might have to be pulled out of Croatia unless relations between Croats and Serbs in UN-patrolled enclaves there improved and the world began to pay its peacekeeping bills . |
| 17 | She got this pen and paper and wrote everybody 's names down mm mm so then she just |
| 18 | Yeah he 'd got some letters , apparently he were going to Post Office later for stamps and everything and er got this letter and seeings I 'd only got three he give me his , give me twenty four pence for a stamp so I walked to Post Office , I thought well I do n't want no penny or tuppeny stamps . |
| 19 | What we had to do was pop out to buy daddy a card and we got a paper and we got some biscuits and cake for tea for tomorrow . |
| 20 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 21 | When I come back from bingo he said I went up the shop up the chip shop he said and got some fish and chips for my tea . |
| 22 | Then he drew the wire tight , applied some heat and polyp and stalk parted company . |
| 23 | The distant forest became obscured by a misty darkness which closed in round them , broken by the odd pinprick of light as they passed some hamlet or village . |
| 24 | In 1928 the Medical Officer reported that maternity and child welfare had developed remarkably over the last two years . |
| 25 | The set prayers of the Church he defended not only as encouraged by Scripture but because their ‘ very form and solemnity helped that imbecility and weakness ’ which made individuals ‘ much less apt to perform unto God so heavenly a service with such affection of heart and disposition of our souls as is necessary ’ . |
| 26 | We found some signs that women may have more problems over credit use than men . |
| 27 | and then after Christmas dinner I built this windmill and mother and I liked it and he said well its only screwed together , I nearly said well you wanted it any way , see , he wanted it and yet cos I got it , it were , any body could have it |
| 28 | He looked so refreshed this morning and Ruth resented that . |
| 29 | White Hart Lane School in London used this approach when attendance had slumped to just 72 per cent . |
| 30 | I used some leaves and tendrils from old man 's beard , some rose leaves , alchemilla flowers , dark pink Japanese anemones , ‘ Ballerina ’ roses and some Alchemilla alpina leaves . |