Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the time she enjoyed most ; when she could relax in the cosy drawing room , with its pale green walls and deep floral armchairs , and with the cheery fire-glow sending out waves of warmth that made her deliciously sleepy . |
| 2 | Moreover , legislation associated with improving workers ' rights in Germany took control many of the important details of university life , such as departmental policy and appointments , out of the hands of the heads of departments and transferred them to committees of faculty members at all levels . |
| 3 | The house of Baskerville , the eminent Birmingham printer , was sold in 1788 and the seven acres of land that surrounded it were advertised as ‘ a very desirable spot to build upon ’ . |
| 4 | In the fourth century the Romans enclosed seven acres of land and called it Banovallum — walled place on the Bain . |
| 5 | WHEN Robert Napier bought four acres of Carntyne and added it to his Parkhead Forge , it was to create something that would become a cross between Hell and Armageddon for the thousands who worked there . |
| 6 | For Saussure this was perhaps mainly a methodological convenience , a way of concentrating on the aspects of language that interested him . |
| 7 | The rain started , a few heavy drops at first and then hissing spears of water that struck her sharply on the head , on her neck , pricking through the thin stuff of her dress . |
| 8 | Thirdly , it was not just the bald declarations of innocence that impressed me , but the nature and quality of those declarations : there were passages in both books which , as in Meehan 's letters to me , had the sharp ring of truth . |
| 9 | He particularly admired the beautiful white spikes of Itea and recommended it for late flowering , a quality which also applied to Clethra alnifolia . |
| 10 | Their campaigns for legal enforcement were backed by a powerful language which identified whole new technologies of sex and forged them into a popular crusade for reform . |
| 11 | Devotedly Meredith , she experienced such a choking sensation of jealousy — she thought it must be like parachuting from an aeroplane , in that she could n't breath and the world dropped away — that she scrumpled up both scraps of paper and flung them into the metal basket beneath the counter . |
| 12 | Schneider rummaged in his make-up case , took out several pairs of spectacles and examined them . |
| 13 | I still do n't really know what it was about birds of prey that fascinated me . |
| 14 | At the speed of thought Chesarynth fled through the towering ranks of symbols that obstructed her now with their colour-coded lattices , their confusion of cold money scents . |
| 15 | We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups — namely , urban , rural , or mixed . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , she got up and poured two mugs of coffee and sipped hers . |
| 17 | In common with any other community , the Deaf Community has had its share of people who have performed deeds of bravery that earned them recognition from the appropriate authorities . |
| 18 | Anyway , I never thought , I just run out the kitchen and got we switched the electric off , and I just got four buckets of water and chucked it on the bed and then said to Rudy , you know what , we have n't got nowhere to sleep now ! |
| 19 | Your brother nicked three er bottles of lager and brought them round to my house on Saturday . |
| 20 | She came in with a further two bottles of champagne and took them , blue eyes shining , to Alfred , assembling the ingredients for the Rognons à la Didier . |
| 21 | He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray . |
| 22 | Yeah cos what , what they said like , their own , cos they run out of wine at the bar and er , they went in the supermarket and got two bottles of wine and kept them on the table you see |
| 23 | I gave Fenella a handful of loose change for cups of tea and told her I was just popping out to ‘ see to Armstrong ’ and I 'd be back in an hour . |
| 24 | Mrs Bannerji brought two new cups of tea and placed them beside Pakeezah Begum 's big , black bakelite telephone . |
| 25 | He snapped off armfuls of branches and brought them back in piles to Ratagan . |
| 26 | Eager hands unrolled the garlands of tinsel and draped them round t ] he branches . |
| 27 | Her arrival , and the exclamations of admiration that greeted her , succeeded in defusing the last of the tension caused by Geoffrey 's tactless remarks . |
| 28 | Both trained bands of disciples and sent them out to preach their respective good news . |
| 29 | It was a new and subtle torment , and she writhed beneath the thrill of his touch , feverishly arching against the eddying bands of tension that enticed her towards some undreamed-of zenith . |
| 30 | Taff produced a couple of pieces of meat and offered me one . |