Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | After staring for a moment , Schaffer straightened and blinked . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was in vain that Nicandra cooed and called . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | " 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 . " |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Plato argued that to know yourself was the very essence of knowledge . |
| 12 | Teresa Leinin met and married her husband in just three months . |
| 13 | At the subsequent AGM of the Alliance , Charles Ward argued that following the electoral truce of the war years conscientiously observed by the Alliance but not its opponents , the organisation had made up lost ground through steady educative work , and was now able ‘ to get in closer touch with the people ’ ( SE 12 February 21 ) . |
| 14 | Sidney Poitier directed and starred in the yukkie A Warm December ; Barbra Streisand played a rebellious housewife in Up The Sandbox , a garish comedy-drama ; and Steve McQueen produced and starred in the brutish Sam Peckinpah heist movie The Getaway , which grossed more than $36 million worldwide despite mixed reviews . |
| 15 | Sophie agreed and looked out of the window . |
| 16 | Aunt Margaret and Melanie clapped and clapped and clapped . |
| 17 | Ben stopped and looked up from what he was doing . |
| 18 | Suddenly Cora-Beth stopped and put her arms round Harry 's neck . |
| 19 | Luce stopped and looked in fascination . |
| 20 | No general agreement was reached and no detailed , generally accepted theory emerged before Newton proposed and defended his particle theory . |
| 21 | Trent surfaced and yelled at the men in the cockpit to swim a lifejacket out to him . |
| 22 | The instrument emitted a doleful exclamation , at which Drago winced and scowled , before making more improvements . |
| 23 | However , Lord Justice Watkins disagreed and said he saw no difficulty in imposing upon the assessment officer the duty to discover what intention lay behind the reduction of capital . |
| 24 | Even more annoyed by that intrusive thought , Guy scowled furiously as Isabel rose and took a beaker from the table , filling it with water from the pail . |
| 25 | She left to have a baby — ’ Miss Vinall stopped and stared at Juliet . |
| 26 | Sarah stopped and looked down at her feet . |
| 27 | Jenkins entered and handed Talbot a sealed envelope . |
| 28 | All the above types of violation of a person 's autonomy involve what Kant described as treating the person as a means to someone else 's end , and not as an end in themselves . |
| 29 | Fitzosbert stopped and turned . |
| 30 | Luce surfaced and took a deep breath . |