Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is by now well known that women of the eighteenth century produced books in almost all genres . |
| 2 | Even the sight of the table , laid there before her , filled her with disgust , for it bore witness to so many foibles , so many fixed and rigid rules . |
| 3 | When Stravinsky composed The Firebird he used leitmotifs in yet another way . |
| 4 | He merely accelerated and , as he passed the bus-stop , he laughed — a grim little laugh that filled Sophie with even more anger . |
| 5 | After all , days before the invasion surprised President Bush , his ambassador , presumably not speaking just for herself , told Saddam in so many words that Washington gave him the green light on Kuwait . |
| 6 | It was the steady reliability , the unfailing support , which I knew I could count on , which distinguished Eliot from so many others . |
| 7 | More than 230 delegates attended , including deputies to the USSR and Russian Federation Supreme Soviets and local councillors ; the party claimed support in virtually all parts of the Russian Federation . |
| 8 | Consumers faced shortages of virtually all commodities including petrol , drinking water , food and even sugar . |
| 9 | A minority slice of the population loathed Livingstone with as much passion as the Right-Ons loved him . |
| 10 | ‘ So Arthur 's a doctor … ’ divined Henry without too much difficulty . |
| 11 | He was a very gentle and kind man and made friends with so many people in the Baptist church community here . ’ |
| 12 | The love of Leonora 's life was sailing , and during the summer months she spent her Sundays on the water at the local reservoir , weeknights at the tennis club or the cinema , and in the winter she took part in as many activities as possible in the small town where she 'd lived all her life . |
| 13 | And how interesting was the way in which it took advantage of so little light as to shine enough for me to see it so clearly . |
| 14 | ‘ We wore skirts with as many layers as possible with a plain dress on top showing off our shoulders . |
| 15 | Today 's chefs have very properly outlawed that preliminary blanching which spelled ruin to so many vegetables — of course there are still those such as celeriac and turnips which may need it — and one of their most fiercely held tenets concerns the brief cooking of fish , in particular of the fragile scallop . |
| 16 | And it was at this time , in 1910 , that Cubism entered its most ‘ difficult ’ or hermetic phase , which subsequently gave rise to so much misunderstanding . |
| 17 | The last time he called on us after his exhibition at Keighley he seemed a new man , with a delight in having found himself in his painting and amazement that it also gave pleasure to so many others . |
| 18 | The late arrival by 13 minutes of three of their key players left Peterlee with too much work to do at Consett where they went down in a first division game by 91 points to 58 as they were left wondering what effect Ivor James , Gord Laing and Allen Quarmby might have had had they been there for the start . |
| 19 | ln pages i and ii of the advertisement for this volume , Darwin explains Gould 's part in its production and the untimely departure which left Darwin with so many questions still unanswered : |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm afraid Colonel Fagg has taken an objection to you , dear boy , ’ said Gooseneck to Amiss that lunch-time . |
| 21 | ‘ If you believe that , sir , ’ said Mark with as much politeness as he could muster , ‘ you will naturally not share the concern I have expressed in my papers . |
| 22 | In 1867 Jordan , motivated by earlier studies of crystal structure by the physicist Bravais , considered groups with infinitely many elements — in particular groups of movements . |
| 23 | and she wanted sort of so many meters of each |
| 24 | The refuge of books , first discovered in his Aunt Susannah 's shop , still remained available to him in London , and by a curious accident he gained access to as many books as even he could want . |