Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the Persil soap powder offers that enabled two passengers to travel for the fare of one and of the utter complexity of offers and restrictions that taxed the ingenuity of many booking clerks and ticket collectors until the Blue ( cheaper ) and White ( all Fridays and occasional other days ) Savers were standardised as BR 's on the whole highly successful marketing tool against coach competition . |
| 2 | In 1954 , for example , Galton and Simpson created Hancock 's Half Hour on radio : satirical playlets about the pale squalor of outer-suburban life that launched a series of tiny exercises in comic realism to replace the music-hall turns that had once dominated the BBC Light Programme : an earthy , irreverent spirit of realistic comedy translated into visual terms in 1960 , when Granada TV started Coronation Street as a comic reflection , for mass audiences , of back-street life in the urban North . |
| 3 | Birds of paradise skins that had been prepared in the traditional way by natives of Papua New Guinea had had their legs removed ; for a considerable time even respectable scientists thought there might be a land where birds never settled . |
| 4 | ‘ upon a true construction of the statutes of the university of Hull the university has and had no power to dismiss Edgar Page by reason of redundancy and his purported dismissal is without effect . |
| 5 | We 'll be having er our usual comprehensive coverage of the , five past seven the programme starts and included in the programme we 'll also be talking er basketball , we have er guests from the city 's basketball team , the Nottingham Cobras . |
| 6 | The dhāmi picked up his long tuft of hair bound with silver rings that had been given to the god he embodied , and carefully wound it round his head again and covered it with his turban . |
| 7 | He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in . |
| 8 | Once she had sat up naked in his dark digs and recited Robert Graves : |
| 9 | A spokesman for Midland said : ‘ They are technical rule breaches that happened three years ago . |
| 10 | In summary , this study shows that compared with medical treatment the heater probe reduces the rebleeding rate in a non-bleeding visible vessel by 62% , there was no death , and complications were minimal . |
| 11 | Even with these limitations , the home-grown system brought British Gypsum benefits that made it want to take EDI much further . |
| 12 | Pristina is surrounded by artillery ranges that belonged to the old Yugoslav army . |
| 13 | Ewan had heard of some research projects that made him very uncomfortable about these people 's future . |
| 14 | He ripped a couple of ring pulls and offered me a luke-warm Fosters . |
| 15 | Suddenly he was crying too , deep racking sobs that took him back to a night long ago , soon after his father was killed . |
| 16 | Deep racking sobs that shook her whole body . |
| 17 | He took big lungfuls of air and then let them out in great racking sobs that shook his whole body . |
| 18 | The theory that English has stress-timed rhythm implies that stressed syllables will tend to occur at relatively regular intervals whether they are separated by unstressed syllables or not ; this would not be the case in ‘ mechanical speech ’ . |
| 19 | The dynamic WCOMP term means that lagged relative returns have a negative coefficient . |
| 20 | But he had inherited his father 's ability , and he was just getting things straight again when he was badly hit by a prolonged series of dock strikes that tied up his ships and prevented them from earning anything . |
| 21 | It was a world which howled with car chases and teetered between excitement and extinction . |
| 22 | The bacteria fed initially on the various carbon compounds that had taken so many millions of years to accumulate in the primordial seas . |
| 23 | She watched with amazement as goats were pushed into guards ' vans ; she gazed with awe at the rough , dark faces that loomed in front of her out of the steam . |
| 24 | He went over to the bed , lifted up the skirts and the separate bodice and draped them over his arm , pushing Meredith in front of the ornate Venetian gilt mirror complete with cherubs and vine leaves that occupied a good twenty feet of wall space . |
| 25 | This account provoked an immediate riposte from Postman ( 1955 ) , who objected that no mechanism had been specified to explain the process by which differentiation occurs and argued that associative processes constituted a possibility . |
| 26 | Against that background , and with those friends , I viewed with satisfaction the election results that gave Harold Wilson his majority of five , or fourteen if you included the Liberals , and upon which he resolutely set out to govern . |
| 27 | Poland reappeared on the maps of Europe not so much through its own efforts to liberate itself — though over the years these had been prodigious but unsuccessful — but through the collapse of the partitioning powers that had held Poland in check . |
| 28 | The clause among the Fourth Lateran Council decrees that proposed regulated taxes for the churches and provinces of Christendom suggests as much . |
| 29 | Again , it was the middle management ranks that suffered the severest cuts . |
| 30 | The alteration in 1983 in DHSS benefit rules that enabled older people living in private residential care to claim their fees from the DHSS brought dramatic increases in the number of private residential homes , and in the number of older people living in them . |