Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The solicitor who drafted the will later acknowledged that he had made a mistake . |
| 2 | The man , who can not be named for legal reasons , admitted the charges falsely imprisoning and indecently assaulting his superior on August 9 last year . |
| 3 | ‘ I found the pressure hard to handle because everyone expects something special from you every single week . |
| 4 | I found the shop expensively decorated and empty except for two sales staff , one sitting reading a magazine , the other preventing the counter from falling over . |
| 5 | He let the night silently envelop and possess us , let time fall away ; then began to draw me back down the decades . |
| 6 | Many RSC actresses removed their clothes , and it cost a lot less to make than that year 's high-brow smash , Brideshead Revisited . |
| 7 | I then used a fingertip roughly to blend and spread them for a hazier and more subtle finish . |
| 8 | I noted the Handbook clearly stated that you were not to expect the police to break into a sweat over your losses . |
| 9 | Lancaster Hole was found in 1949 when a caver sitting having his lunch on a still sunny day noticed the grass nearby waving and stirring as though a wind were moving it . |
| 10 | And if that happened the bill automatically falls unless we can move the closure of the debate . |
| 11 | Slowly he raised his hands until they were above waist level , and turned the palms outward to show that he was unarmed . |
| 12 | They prepared the resus. room , and when all was ready they informed the patients still waiting that they might have a slight delay due to an emergency that was being brought in . |
| 13 | In an important sense , Hugh may almost be looked on as the instigator of the Investiture decree of 1078 , for he had gone to Rome for his episcopal consecration four years earlier in order to avoid contact with a secular ruler , who claimed the right both to nominate and to invest his nominee in his episcopal office . |
| 14 | A MAN who thinks he 's a baked bean got a passport yesterday showing that he IS . |
| 15 | Having been warned off Channel 7 by Pannells , he contacted the Institute only to find that it could not approve the service . |
| 16 | A source close to Hutchence , at No 32 with Baby Do n't Cry , said : ‘ Michael and Helena spent the night together dancing and appeared very happy . |
| 17 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 18 | They spent the time there swimming and walking , and when the holidays were over they used to return home . |
| 19 | Marines hit the ground either running or flopping on to their stomachs at three points along the 10,000ft runways as they took up positions . |
| 20 | Athelstan watched the hospitaller suddenly stir and noticed with alarm how the knight now grasped one of his gloves in his hand . |
| 21 | At the same time , having failed to take Madrid , Franco needed a victory elsewhere to revitalize and reassert the military prowess which had led to his election as supreme military and political leader . |
| 22 | For you must know that I had a twin brother , as beautiful as the day , and gentle as a fawn , and wholesome as new bread and butter , whose company pleased me so much , as mine also pleased him , that we swore an oath never to marry but to live forever peacefully in the castle , and hunt and play together the livelong day . |
| 23 | DAVIE PROVAN , in the past a favourite at Parkhead and now a radio summariser , wore the expression currently described as ‘ gobsmacked ’ when he entered the press lounge at half time . |
| 24 | In a speech at the launch of the ss Trevethoe in February 1913 he took the opportunity publicly to declare that he was in favour of a conciliation board , and that he was not alone in this conviction . |
| 25 | In the interval of my concert , he took the cellos away to ensure that the passage was perfect when we came back to play it — now there is real dedication and real generosity ! |
| 26 | Economists and others who have considered the human capital notion over the years can be divided into two groups : those who have argued that human beings increase national wealth ; and those who went a step further to argue that improving the quality of human beings through health , education and other services increases their productivity as labourers and hence adds to the national wealth . |
| 27 | But did the women really feel that their own work had been less important ? |
| 28 | Only in 1835 , after intermittent rioting , subsequently suppressed by the Coldstream Guards , did the magistrates cautiously suggest that unrest had ended , ‘ Otmoor , being now it may be hoped in a state of permanent tranquillity ’ . |
| 29 | Only after some time did the cameras finally establish that the belly had a head belonging to Nicholas Soames , the Industry Secretary 's PPS . |
| 30 | They may have proved naive on the field of play but , says JOHN ROBBIE , the two emphatic defeats did the Springboks less harm than the myopic selection of the old guard to manage the coming tour to Europe . |