Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lange admitted that he had " been over a barrel " after the French government had threatened that unless the accord was accepted , New Zealand would be denied access to French markets for its agricultural exports , the mainstay of its economy , |
| 2 | Defeat — and yet not truly defeat , Maria realised as she felt Luke 's response . |
| 3 | His teeth gleamed as he smiled . |
| 4 | Quite , quite frankly I , I ca n't see Walsall moving , because it seems to have been money wasted if they 've made Fellas Park good and then they move somewhere else . |
| 5 | The next day the policeman went where Mr Banks lived and they rang the bell , hello , hello are you Mrs Banks ? |
| 6 | Looking ahead , I suppose travel would be nice , if only the opportunity arose and I had the courage to go with it . |
| 7 | Barbara 's foot skidded and she fell to the floor in the ‘ corridor ’ between the hessian screens . |
| 8 | Initially , some progress appeared to have been made at the Jakarta meeting when Sihanouk and Hun Sen announced that they had finally agreed on a compromise formula on the issue of the SNC chair ( Sihanouk as chair , Hun Sen as vice-chair ) . |
| 9 | During the trial , Lord Maclean heard a taped confession where MacIver admitted that he suggested which lorry to hijack and drove to Inverness a week before the robbery to check the vehicle 's routine . |
| 10 | In mid-July the Croatian authorities announced that they did not have the resources to cope with any more refugees unless substantial help from abroad was forthcoming . |
| 11 | Even though your knees trembled and your heart fluttered and you felt weak with longing , how could you melt , knowing that ? |
| 12 | Bernard announced that he wished to be known as an uncle , not a grandfather . |
| 13 | ABOUT 15 YEARS ago the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum announced that he had discovered a new personality type — the compulsive programmer . |
| 14 | The Lieutenant recommended that we bring her to you , as she was carrying this . ’ |
| 15 | Bernard asked as they walked back to the bar room . |
| 16 | At 3pm on Tuesday , the first closing date , the Dragon board announced that it had received acceptances from 750 shareholders in respect of 39.71 per cent of Drayton Asia 's issued share capital . |
| 17 | Devlin asked as they went down . |
| 18 | On April 8 Tudjman announced that he had received assurances from the JNA leadership that the JNA would not interfere in the settlement of the political crisis , but on April 11 the Croatian government announced the establishment of a de facto republican army in the form of a Croatian National Guard Corps . |
| 19 | Pascoe realized that he 'd been asking questions that Susan had n't answered . |
| 20 | For Jim revealed that he has married Sara twice . |
| 21 | On June 25 a number of Kurdish deputies announced that they had formed the Freedom and Labour Party ( OZEP ) . |
| 22 | The Iranian authorities countered that they had repeatedly asked the Turkish government to present evidence for such claims . |
| 23 | The midwife toad came to public notice when , in the early years of this century , the Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer announced that he had persuaded the toads to breed once more in water and that , as a consequence of this , they had re-evolved nuptial pads . |
| 24 | After a few minutes ' silent reflection , however , I saw that the difficulty arose because we had read the phrase in quite different ways . |
| 25 | The trial judge rejected that submission and , on appeal , counsel argued that he had not specifically dealt with the issue of breach of the Code . |
| 26 | At Oxford Crown Court his counsel argued that he did not intend to harm Miss Lamplugh and had planned to commit suicide by crashing her car . |
| 27 | Whitlock asked as he looked over the railing at the water fifty feet below him . |
| 28 | Whitlock asked as he helped her to her feet . |
| 29 | She sat down without a word and shook her head when Whitlock asked if she wanted coffee . |
| 30 | It is seen in The Facts to belong to the times in which the writer lived when he wrote the novel , when opposition to the Vietnam War , and to a President Johnson perceived as monstrous , took to the street-wisdom of a farcical obscenity . |