Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The meal was consumed as rapidly as was comfortable within 15 minutes or stopped when satiation occurred . |
| 3 | Bank of America on Aug. 28 also denied that it had violated banking guidelines or issued or accepted fraudulent bankers ' receipts . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Blue , blue eyes that captured and held your glance . |
| 8 | The insurers will not cover disputes that arose before the policy was taken out and will not meet legal costs incurred without their approval . |
| 9 | And then the wailing that went up and the curses that fell as the roof came off . |
| 10 | In 1976 , Henry Blake published the first of a number of books that showed that he had studied the horse 's mind in depth . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Words that flayed and scorched coming from her lips . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The circumstantial variables that prevailed when Carter held office were mixed with some favouring the president and others not . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Broad clumsy beasts , scabbed and dirty white , with knives that hacked and smoking pistols . |
| 17 | He raised his hands in the boxer 's victory salute to acknowledge the roar of applause from the cheerleaders that began as soon as the eulogy to announce him had ended . |
| 18 | The runway lights came on , two lines of haloed yellow flares that faded as they converged into the curtains of rain and smoke . |
| 19 | In 1815 he returned to Karlovci to collect material for a second song book , which later inspired a glowing review from Jakob Grimm , in which he compared the Serbian love songs to Solomon 's Song of Songs and wrote that the ‘ Serbs are by virtue of their language … the most blessed with poems , songs and stories , and it looks as if the good God had , by this rich gift of popular poetry , wished to make up to them for their lack of books . ’ |
| 20 | I put my hands over my ears and prayed that the ringing would stop . |
| 21 | ‘ Nonsense , ’ replied the nurses , ‘ you 're not even three fingers dilated , ’ until one of them , a girl with a lot of red hair , opened Wendy 's legs and looked and screeched , ‘ But I can see the head ! |
| 22 | Where there had been one figure faintly outlined in the frame of the staging there were now two — one large , obviously Jotan , and one much smaller , a child Alexei thought until he saw the muscular build and shortened legs and realised that Jotan had caught a dwarf . |
| 23 | A further eight per cent of pupils also appeared to make an assumption about the relationships between cubes and hand spans and concluded that Robert was not taller than Dean . |
| 24 | An article in the Caring for People newsletter ( DoH , 1992 ) responded to the questions raised by participating districts and confirmed that the care programme approach applies to all people accepted by specialist psychiatric services . |
| 25 | She made her way into the offices and realised that thoughts of Cousin Naylor and his brutishness had wiped from her mind all thought of the Massingham upper echelon 's imminent arrival . |
| 26 | FROM the birth of radio astronomy in 1932 , when Jansky discovered cosmic radio waves and established that they come from the Galactic Centre , it has been clear that something very remarkable is taking place at the core of the Milky Way . |
| 27 | They estimated the total population at 3000–4000 animals and discovered that almost a quarter lived around Banks Peninsula , near the South Island 's largest city , Christchurch . |
| 28 | Birds were always with them ; robins watched with bright eyes and sang as they passed ; wrens flew suddenly and low from branch to bush ; great tits rang out their bell-notes unseen from the tree-tops ; tree-creepers trickled headlong and caterwise down the creviced trunks of the oaks ; woodpeckers kept up a constant drum-rattle on the hollow branches , the sound coming now from the right , now from the left , now in front , now behind ; wood-pigeons wooed one another in secret leafy recesses , comforting , encouraging , cajoling ; rooks sprang upwards cawing into the blue sky as they passed beneath their nests ; and higher still , up towards the sun , they caught occasional glimpses of great birds circling , buzzards , kites , eagles . |
| 29 | He stared at his companion 's round cherubic face and twinkling blue eyes and knew that Benstede was only trying to draw him into conversation . |
| 30 | I saw the evil light in his eyes and knew that so far they had only been playing with me : their real intent was to kill . |