Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Task Force Atlantic also attacked and seized the main military prison , freeing some 48 prisoners who had been arrested by Gen Noriega after the abortive coup against him on October 3 . |
| 2 | At the entrance Emily suddenly turned and said sharply , ‘ Wait there . ’ |
| 3 | With practically all its fighting men either killed or captured , the Kingdom of Jerusalem lay helpless at the feet of the invader . |
| 4 | Progress was very slow in the mid-1980s , except in Liverpool , where the Docks and Harbour Company actively developed and promoted the Freeport . |
| 5 | ‘ And the reason the boy wonder suddenly rang and invited me to watch him go through his paces was because he wanted to show off something rotten , ’ she teased , intent on bringing him back down to earth . |
| 6 | At one stage , when I happened to depart the room in the midst of an address by one of the German gentlemen , M. Dupont suddenly rose and followed me out . |
| 7 | Government attempts to form a social pact with the trade unions and business sector also failed as did its attempt to gain public acceptance for its plan against poverty . |
| 8 | At that moment Hullabaloo suddenly spun and lashed out , nearly catching the horse behind . |
| 9 | When Maggie tried to tell Phoebe about her gruelling embarrassment Phoebe just laughed and told her she was turning into a bourgeois little creep and should perhaps be taking domestic science and dress-making . |
| 10 | That and the fees for Coroner 's post-mortems provided an income which was one of the reasons why his professional colleagues in the pathology department of the district general hospital both envied and resented his unpredictable absences on police work , the long days in court , the inevitable publicity . |
| 11 | ‘ But the immigration officials and security men just laughed and said she was pretending because she did n't want to be sent back . ’ |
| 12 | However , the universal retirement pension both encouraged and enabled employers to superannuate a whole section of the workforce on the basis of arbitrary age criteria . |
| 13 | It was the first silk garment she had owned , and it had been expensive , but Faye 's silk clothes always looked and felt so wonderful … |
| 14 | And though the Tory woman 's hat is a high art form now decayed and lost , as is that of the elegant crossing of Tory wives ' legs on a platform far above , and though the party has become more catholic in the women it attracts , there is a still a discernible type of Tory woman . |
| 15 | For example , regulatory agencies should be strengthened , particularly in their legal departments , so that it would be possible to nurture a pool of state lawyers sufficiently specialized and experienced to be a fair match for corporate lawyers . |
| 16 | Despite all of these changes , the leaders of the change effort consciously supported and maintained those values and ways of work that had been productive in the past , such as joint consultation with the unions . |
| 17 | I would like to see that view also accepted by statutory agencies and service provision by voluntary agencies properly integrated into service with future funding requirements properly identified and secured . |
| 18 | ( 7 ) The property information questionnaire duly completed and signed and dated . |
| 19 | Parliament decided that this was not what the parties to arbitration agreements either expected or wanted and abolished the case stated procedure by s1(1) of the Arbitration Act 1979 : see further 15.8.3 . |
| 20 | In two experiments we recorded the sexual response of male and female auklets to realistic opposite-sex models with crest ornaments experimentally shortened and lengthened within the range of natural variation . |
| 21 | The press of the Gold Coast also reflected and stimulated the activities of nationalists and of the burgeoning political parties . |
| 22 | He lay awake through the night wishing he could go home or into the sitting room and watch a horror movie , and then , as the room paled with the threat of day , he drifted into an uneasy sleep , finally waking in full light with a foul taste in his mouth and the disjointed memory of a dream in which he was trapped in a lift dressed in women 's underwear and wondering how to explain it when the fire brigade finally came and rescued him . |
| 23 | For twenty-four hours after Melody 's visit Anna neither ate nor drank anything , and never spoke a word to anyone . |
| 24 | If the market price subsequently rose or fell , that is irrelevant , even if the seller actually sold at that subsequent greater or lower price . |