Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lothian and Borders Police admitted liability but disputed her claim for £75,000 damages . |
| 2 | This had annoyed Jonquil and set her steel earring swinging with temper . |
| 3 | That 's where you met Colin and told him I was having a new car . |
| 4 | By 1065 he had conquered Toledo and made it a Christian — Moorish fief owing allegiance to Leon . |
| 5 | BHC engineers came up with a floppier , tapered skirt that allowed them to reduce the pressure of the air cushion . |
| 6 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
| 7 | After a while he made tea and brought it back to bed and they talked in a way she never could have with Mike , or anyone she knew , about Garstang 's book on the songs of birds and about Haydn 's Bird Quartet and Wagner 's bird music in Siegfried . |
| 8 | He went up to see Ivan and found him asleep . |
| 9 | Peter did not read the newspapers , nor listen to the radio or watch television much ; he read books or played his games . |
| 10 | I knew you were special the moment I recovered consciousness and saw your face swimming before my eyes . ’ |
| 11 | The consultant at first attempted to induce labour but discontinued it . |
| 12 | Finally , I did the laundry , cleaned the eating and cooking utensils and washed myself . |
| 13 | He was delighted to see Schellenberg and showed it . |
| 14 | Pictures were completely and utterly silent except for the whirr of the projector , or the mutterings of the projectionist when he changed reels and dropped one . |
| 15 | He changed course and reached it , just as a hand came into view , with the top of somebody 's headgear lying inside . |
| 16 | Immediately , she changed course and made her way among the gravestones , stopping for a moment to fondle and quieten the wriggling , prancing little dog before entering the church . |
| 17 | His atheist views , his contradictory and somewhat unscientific analyses , his dismissive attitude towards women , and his convinced hereditarianism created notoriety and left him isolated . |
| 18 | Denbighshire , in contrast , defeated Breconshire and had their trip to South Wales at Ammanford rained off , so all now hinges on the outcome of today 's derby date . |
| 19 | Those who did well out of coffee growing started employing labourers and consolidated their control over the best land . |
| 20 | He approached Vickers and convinced them of his worth as pilot for their Atlantic crossing attempt . |
| 21 | But the technocratic approach did not lessen discrimination but reproduced it in a subtler form . |
| 22 | The PCAS has accused UCCA of poaching after the universities ' system approached polytechnics and told them it would delay the deadline for its 1993 handbook by two weeks to allow them to join . |
| 23 | St Ives said it was a mercy he had n't after all approached Meredith and asked him to give her the push . |
| 24 | Lord Diplock in Caldwell [ 1982 ] AC 341 did not overrule Cunningham but distinguished it . |
| 25 | Volkov changed gear and increased his speed . |
| 26 | Baron Ferdinand de Rothchild built Waddesdon and furnished it exclusively in 17th and 18th century French style . |
| 27 | They will have sorted bricks and arranged them in neat piles ( sorting and setting ) . |
| 28 | A DUNGANNON motorist who was said by a magistrate to have a ‘ dreadful drink-driving record ’ was fined £550 and lost his licence for five years at Cookstown Magistrates Court yesterday . |
| 29 | He was a man of profound education , but having acquired it himself he treasured words and used them with unique skill and often with a strange individuality . |
| 30 | if we 're serious about that we need I think to review that very regularly , because I moved offices and discovered I was still a fire officer for a part of the office I was n't even part of , |