Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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) ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Their eyes collided with a force that deafened and blinded Isabel to everything else . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A man is tonight being questioned by police in connection with a shotgun murder that occurred while he was on the run from prison . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The level of opposition that existed when my predecessor brought in the contract will be shown by history to have been wildly overstated . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A green sweater that flattered and a knitted skirt that matched . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The narrow road they were following was overhung with oak and chestnut trees , their interlaced branches letting through thin , bright shafts of light that flickered and danced over the car as it passed underneath . |
| 17 | In Kepler 's construction of the solar system , each planet had its own melodic line associated with a changing speed that increased as it approached its closest point to the sun . |
| 18 | Part of the process was interwoven with the Counter-Reformation : Philip 's Catholicism , his court and his Spanish armies and administrators became a further instrument of oppression that unified and heightened the Protestantism of the rebels ( the Inquisition was thus a means of imposing a homogeneity upon Philip 's subjects , the better to subordinate them to a uniform governance ) . |
| 19 | Inevitably there was a lot of sycophantic non sense around her too.Thus when she made a blood donation , the director of the clinic declared that the room would remain a shrine for her and everyone who now had a transfusion would insist that it was her divine blood that flowed and miraculously and potently into his veins . |
| 20 | She did n't feel pain , only a small burst of pleasure that intensified as he then licked her reddened skin . |
| 21 | She was not expecting the vaguely defined figure that coalesced as her vision cleared . |
| 22 | She was wearing a blue costume with a slit skirt that opened when she crossed her legs . |
| 23 | No snow in the air that morning , only the wind that gusted and trapped the men on the perimeter path . |
| 24 | Despite the proximity of the sea and the mean wind that gathered and spread salt , this community of trees was renowned for its health . |
| 25 | Like the wind that guttered and blew out the candles , a bloodied man had broken through the dancers ' joy to break the glittering ball into dark fragments , yet still some few couples could not bear to relinquish the last moments of peace . |
| 26 | So I just run round with 'oover and dusted and polished , then I made a cup of tea . |
| 27 | British Sources wore a truculent glower and insisted that we were ‘ true Europeans ’ . |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Londonderry , East quoted the experts waste recovery association and said that the first priority should be waste minimisation . |
| 29 | Despite signing this compromise Wells remained opposed to the Accord and suggested that he wanted an extension of the deadline in order to have time to hold a provincial referendum on the issue . |
| 30 | These sentiments were echoed by Bourassa , who described himself as " very pleased with the results " of the new accord and suggested that Canada was now " on the way to stability after two years of uncertainty " . |