Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much more one can not say , because although Mitchell made admirable attempts to colour and project his lines , the quartet playing was so uncommitted and flabby , so lacking in dynamic range and in lustre , that Crawford 's music had little chance to make more than superficial impact . |
| 2 | ‘ I remember vividly being on night guard prior to the morning executions when some prisoners sang and rattled their tin mugs against the bars in some form of defiance . |
| 3 | I think of people , grand old British artists , like Turner for example , going on grand tours and coming back to Britain and going through , as it were , a period of painting where he is influenced by what he 's seen and heard and experienced in Europe , and then more latterly I think of France as being , Paris as being the centre of art and British artists going and spending their period in Paris and coming back and going through an impressionist or an expressionist phase . |
| 4 | She moved more slowly , stopping every few paces to aim and fire her blaster . |
| 5 | The other half , she admitted to herself , wanted nothing more than to fling herself into his arms , use all her feminine wiles to attack and conquer his patronising self-control . |
| 6 | As yet unsigned , Sunflowers need a few months to diet and define their direction . |
| 7 | This chapter gives you some guidelines to explain and help you in your work : |
| 8 | The old woman came and silently cleared away , without once looking at me , even when I pointed at the few cakes left and praised them in my stilted Greek ; the hermit master evidently liked silent servants . |
| 9 | Envy is one of the strongest antidotes to love and has its roots in the innate and primitive anger and anxiety of infancy . |
| 10 | Thickened his voice in the wrong places to try and convince us that he was under the influence . |
| 11 | Foreign observers sniggered and called him a basketball player . |
| 12 | In the ninth century they were stolen and moved to Conques , where was a narrow shelf of rock in a remote , retired valley of great beauty in the Rouergue , in the Massif Central ; and here was space enough for a hermitage and a small oratory — for Faith , and a few monks to protect and cultivate her . |
| 13 | So we had to get some ways to try and get something down . |
| 14 | Although social arrangements constrain and control us , they are still constructed and reproduced by human action . |
| 15 | Gypsy violins cast their eerie spell as a host of models and popular personalities camped and cavorted their way along an interminable red-carpeted runway on Sunday evening . |
| 16 | I make a coffee and flick through a few albums to try and find something suitable — a Michael Sembelo , a Philip Baily , a Deacon Blue , but none of them feel right in my soul . |
| 17 | Furthermore , as the French kings developed and extended their legal powers they increasingly intervened in the affairs of the duchy , and cases arising in the duchy might be taken on appeal to Paris , thus undermining the authority of the duke . |
| 18 | It is remarkable indeed how little understanding we have of warfare in this period ; and we shall never know in detail how medieval kings acquired and held their power unless we can find out more precisely how they recruited their armies and led them . |
| 19 | Built up over the past 10 years , his aquilegia collection consists of about 130 species and hybrids , with the emphasis on species ‘ to save as many as possible from extinction and allow present and future generations to know and enjoy their great beauty ’ . |
| 20 | I would say in employment yes , or people that want to get employment example would be yeah at M D secretary suddenly shot into the job of producing the company newspaper now I mean somebody like very quickly has to get to grips with this obviously can not give up six months to go and do it so you do it on a half day release basis . |
| 21 | The thing that worked best when we were going through an investigation was to get individual kids to come and explain it … mind you they made such a racket applauding them when they 'd finished etc. , but I felt they were listening more carefully to them than they were to me ! |
| 22 | It is essential , for example , that school-leavers should be able to write a letter in polite , direct , and simple style , using appropriate formulae to begin and end it . |
| 23 | Additionally , we will continue to look for suitable opportunities to work with appropriate companies to expand and improve our business through partnership or acquisition . |
| 24 | These are the monuments to generations of individual farmers ploughing and draining their fields . |
| 25 | The children 's toy market is big business — worth £3 billion a year , it uses vast resources to make and package its products . |
| 26 | Their own consensual efforts to deny and suppress them would then be exposed for the deceitful sham they have always been . |
| 27 | They know the Chancellor has to view the budget as a whole and it 's quite impossible if individual members try and force their will . |
| 28 | Again and again , such prophecies dictate and determine his decisions , his attitudes , his course of action . |
| 29 | Lasbeams , gouts of flame , and ordinary bullets ripped and charred his clothes but were deflected by the energy armour he wore beneath . |
| 30 | Beside the total rewards such men expected and obtained they are minute . |