Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always , outside the wire , the bored guards relieved each other at two hourly intervals while , inside , prisoners did the washing-up or quarrelled or went to sleep . |
| 2 | The government adopted a decree on April 5 for the provision of homes and jobs to returning Turks , many of whom had sold their houses or found that the local authorities had bulldozed them in their absence . |
| 3 | The meal was consumed as rapidly as was comfortable within 15 minutes or stopped when satiation occurred . |
| 4 | Bank of America on Aug. 28 also denied that it had violated banking guidelines or issued or accepted fraudulent bankers ' receipts . |
| 5 | To get out of bed , for instance , the patient is turned onto his side or lifted and then brought into the sitting position on the side of the bed . |
| 6 | Five others either declared their candidacy or announced that they would soon do so : Edmund G. ( Jerry ) Brown Jr , Governor of California in 1975-83 ; Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas ; Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa ; Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska , and Governor L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia . |
| 7 | The Secretary of State may add to this list and has more general powers to ensure that local authorities do ‘ not act in a manner having the effect or intended or likely to have the effect of restricting , distorting or preventing competition ’ ( s.4(5) ) . |
| 8 | When those at the level of schools read about allegations of incompetence on the part of the earlier separate Universities Funding Council and about the individual difficulties of separate universities , they felt frustration about the apparent misuse of money in other sectors or believed that if other people got their sums wrong , they in schools should also have been excused . |
| 9 | By allowing the individual to choose freely , Miliband rejects , according to Poulantzas , the underlying logic of Marxist thinking that thought and action is determined and shaped by the logic and requirements of capitalism . |
| 10 | Their eyes collided with a force that deafened and blinded Isabel to everything else . |
| 11 | They were still doing jobs at that were long since dispensed with at you know , marshalling and that and methods that adopted and the shunting techniques . |
| 12 | And then she heard the words that surprised and startled , confused her , so that the green eyes that flashed and sparked with anger softened and melted as she looked at him and heard each gently spoken syllable . |
| 13 | Blue , blue eyes that captured and held your glance . |
| 14 | When he was given work at a lathe that rounded and spiralled chairs ' legs he took no advice from the foreman , and instead watched the man next to him to study the working of the machine . |
| 15 | A man is tonight being questioned by police in connection with a shotgun murder that occurred while he was on the run from prison . |
| 16 | I hoped that in the Queen 's Speech the Government would set out a programme that showed that we were prepared to play our part in removing the scourge of poverty , of short life and of environmental destruction which is the lot of so many people in the world . |
| 17 | The level of opposition that existed when my predecessor brought in the contract will be shown by history to have been wildly overstated . |
| 18 | It was an attempt to cultivate an attitude of mind that recognised that this intelligence — however glorious — had its limitations when it was confronted with the ineffable and ultimate reality . |
| 19 | The insurers will not cover disputes that arose before the policy was taken out and will not meet legal costs incurred without their approval . |
| 20 | It was the in-between of that sludge-grey spring that stopped and started , flowers bursting out then drenched with sleet , blighted by snow ; skies grey and thundery , rain mean and seeping , wind a slinking greasy cur that has paddled through filthy city ponds and has nowhere to go . |
| 21 | The draught oxen breeds already had the advantage of size but it was weight that counted and in particular the volume of meat in proportion to bone . |
| 22 | And then the wailing that went up and the curses that fell as the roof came off . |
| 23 | A green sweater that flattered and a knitted skirt that matched . |
| 24 | In 1976 , Henry Blake published the first of a number of books that showed that he had studied the horse 's mind in depth . |
| 25 | I have formally to decline such offers and shame on the correspondent who said that he had a pair of longjohns that flashed as he took them off and I was welcome to observe the spectacle at any time . |
| 26 | Words that flayed and scorched coming from her lips . |
| 27 | They had all disappeared except for one of the bigger branches that bent and pointed a little his way and seemed now to come and go before his very eyes as drifting mist obscured it . |
| 28 | The circumstantial variables that prevailed when Carter held office were mixed with some favouring the president and others not . |
| 29 | A mouth that trembled and opened to expose pointed thorns for teeth seemed to work to speak ; over all , the shape of the woodland creature was that of a wolf , but a bare boned wolf , its fur gone , its flesh shrunken on to the jutting bones of its body . |
| 30 | Looks of surprise were exchanged all round them as he set an arm round Lachlan 's shoulders that stiffened and then relaxed ; and then the cheering erupted . |