Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ The meagre , gallant Don Quixote beard quivered and jutted as though every individual hair had suddenly stiffened to the clenched tension of Paviour 's jaw . |
| 2 | He heard vespers sung in the deep dusk from his father 's church , and his heart stilled and quietened in him with wonder , as though at last he felt himself to be drawing near to the heart of a mystery . |
| 3 | ‘ Nibs McGovern met that train every day with his trolley to pick up the papers and the Boland loaves that the shops got for special customers . |
| 4 | The whole thing had the odd appearance of a brick-built Mississippi steamboat beached and panting to get back to the lake . |
| 5 | Daffodils and primrose fluttered and blushed from warm corners . |
| 6 | After staring for a moment , Schaffer straightened and blinked . |
| 7 | I was sympathetic towards the subject and not averse to carrying out some research in that field if the opportunity arose but had no intention of studying it myself . |
| 8 | After the Tower Report was published in February 1987 , and the PROF notes revealed that had passed by computer between the characters , the basement became home to a band of five-o'clock-shadowed Boy Scouts delighting in their own secrecy . |
| 9 | The taxpayer argued that to rely on the substantial omissions from Mr Slade 's tax return as grounds for investigating Mr Kempton 's tax affairs was to imply guilt by association . |
| 10 | Seas receded and new land surfaces arose and joined up with others , inviting colonization of a whole ecological community . |
| 11 | The Crown accepted that the income of the settlement arose or accrued to the three trustees jointly and not jointly and severally so that none of them was entitled , in law , separately to any particular share or fraction of the income . |
| 12 | Churchill agreed and decided that , regardless of the outcome of the talks about continuing the coalition into peacetime , ‘ any decisions which are needed for the supreme objects of FOOD and EMPLOYMENT in the years immediately after the war must be taken whether they involve legislation and whether they are controversial or not ’ . |
| 13 | While serving in Zanzibar Rigby met and assisted several celebrated explorers : Sir Richard Burton ( who was to be accused by Rigby of withholding payment from porters and other members of the expedition to Lake Tanganyika — an accusation which was denied by Burton ) , J. H. Speke , and David Livingstone [ qq.v . ] . |
| 14 | In fact , once the evidence that Minos lived and ruled in the Labyrinth at Knossos has been seen as hopelessly insubstantial , it begins to look as if there might have been no king at all . |
| 15 | Opponents argued that teaching other languages , especially those spoken at home , would impede the ability of children to speak and write English . |
| 16 | Like the Royal Navy , the RAF sought and found a gap in the Sandys doctrine , and it was the Army 's requirements that again provided the case . |
| 17 | But under pressure from the local MP for Falmouth , the Ministry of Defence relented and lifted the prohibition order . |
| 18 | It was in vain that Nicandra cooed and called . |
| 19 | Not far away I caught , from the corner of my eye , the flickering movement as a ringed plover scudded and ran among the sea-pinks . |
| 20 | On that basis , and almost forgotten between these two dramatic giants , Newman commissioned and produced a science fiction serial for children in 1959 called Pathfinders in Space , a serial in seven parts , penned by Eric Paice and Malcolm Hulke — two authors who shared a friend in fellow writer David Whitaker , of whom more will be discussed in later chapters . |
| 21 | Flotillas of birds sculled and flapped away from the train . |
| 22 | " Mr. Osborne stated that he and Mr. Stewart met as requested by the last meeting and made a selection of Thirty-six Books a list of which he had now pleasure of laying before the Meeting for their approval , but the Meeting found that they would need to curtail the list to Twentythree so as not to exceed the ammount of two pounds . " |
| 23 | She was sitting bolt upright on the thick tug which lay before the fireplace in which the coals glowed and flamed . |
| 24 | That ingrained courage , the belief that he must continue to fight on — the ability to fool himself into thinking that he could fight on — was all that was left to Tubby , and Colonel Windsor realised that to take it away from him could precipitate the final breakdown . |
| 25 | Plato argued that to know yourself was the very essence of knowledge . |
| 26 | All authorities agreed that adding the substance to water was the best way to limit the daily dosage . |
| 27 | Sir Mark on his black warhorse , his dark red hair oiled and combed ; before him went his squire carrying a banner with the Burghgesh arms , and marching behind were six archers with steel caps , quilted jerkins , long bows and quivers full of goose-quilled arrows . |
| 28 | Teresa Leinin met and married her husband in just three months . |
| 29 | It makes the British attitude to planemaking — make it commercial or defence oriented and make it pay PDQ — look plain shortsighted and stupid . |
| 30 | When his heart brimmed and overflowed , he told her he was in love with her . |