Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where characters appeared and disappeared at random , and the plot was therefore ever-changing and never got anywhere . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , visiting hours were an ordeal far more to be dreaded than the occasional unattractive things the doctors or nurses came and did to me . |
| 3 | Drab and perhaps a little the worse for wear , sedate in unpretentious boards or cloth , they are cherished far more than copies reclothed and bedecked in elegant calf and morocco . |
| 4 | Experience has shown that anomalies arose and had to be addressed and that caused massive administrative complications . |
| 5 | Despite the fact that connoisseurs applauded and collected his sumptuously produced , privately printed editions in terms of the designer 's art , his work became unfashionable after 1918 , and appreciation was marred by the poet 's increasingly vilified personal reputation . |
| 6 | Although conservatives argued that visiting the shrine — particularly on Aug. 15 , the anniversary of the ending of the Pacific War — was a legitimate means of paying respect to the dead , others interpreted it as paying homage to an outdated militarist philosophy and its discredited adherents . |
| 7 | When Alfred Kinsey and his team went into the closet to examine graffiti in male and female lavatories they found that men wrote and drew more sexual graffiti than women . |
| 8 | And it is by that fire that Kentigern is born — about 518 — and to that fire , just as in the Gospels , that shepherds came and cared for the boy whose mother , her work done , is dead . ’ |
| 9 | Sounds grew muffled and footfalls came and went softly and unseen in the mist , from where to where no eagle could tell . |
| 10 | Police officers of various ranks and specialisms came and went all day , checking for forensic evidence relating to the kidnap , intercepting some telephone calls and listening in to others . |
| 11 | Many teachers and heads felt that getting on in the primary sector required verbal and practical allegiance to certain quite specific canons of ‘ good primary practice ’ , and that anything less , let alone any open challenging of the orthodoxies in question , could damage their professional prospects . |
| 12 | Carts full of precious belongings were being unloaded in the courtyards ; ostlers , grooms and farriers shouted and yelled . |
| 13 | It was known that many European plants and animals flourished when introduced into areas such as Australia , thus fuelling the imperialist assumption that the products of Europe — including the human products — were destined to rule the world . |
| 14 | Now in pursuance of the premisses the said lords spirituall and temporall and commons in Parlyament assembled for the ratifying confirming and establishing the said declaration and the articles clauses matters and things therein contained by the force of a law made in due for me by authority of Parlyament doe pray that it may be declared and enacted that all and singular the rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration are the true auntient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this king dome and soe shall be esteemed allowed adjudged deemed and taken to be and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly hold en and observed as they are expressed in the said declaration . |
| 15 | Then the bears required sympathy , their warm , ordered breakfast disrupted , their chairs and beds appropriated and messed , broken , used by the intruding child . |
| 16 | The city at night intimidated me : the piss-heads , bums , derelicts and dealers shouted and looked for fights . |
| 17 | Sheet by acid-sprayed sheet , 144 pieces of a huge jigsaw of tubes and angles beeped and fluttered from four laser facsimile machines in Sir Titus Salt 's former alpaca mill , while at his home in California Hockney — already master of computer , photocopy , and snipped-photograph art — was feeding the composite picture into his own fax . |
| 18 | This enabled us not only to check the quality of the work but also to help if problems arose and to show the importance we attached to the role of the interviewers . |
| 19 | Businessmen , politicians and academics came and went from it . |
| 20 | But during the night the mice invaded their camp and gnawed through all the halters , saddle-girths , and reins , while the bears , foxes , and cats growled and howled around the outskirts of the camp with a sound fearful enough to make your blood run cold . |
| 21 | The lengthening day that pushes back your train Of clinging shadow , but keeps you here , has woken The seeds from the sleep they fell to when you went Down with them to darkness , the dread time When nothing could reach you , when you were hid away , And I retreated , sorrowing , hidden also ; And seed cast in the barren furrow rotted And trees withered and died ; and in the womb Of many a beast the embryo miscarried And then no germination ; and the earth sickened When in the womb of darkness you were stifled . |
| 22 | A jazz band played on a little stage at the end of the wide , luxurious room , and diners sat and listened at tables covered in white linen and silver . |
| 23 | As they made their way through the throng of people , boys and girls laughed and joked with them . |
| 24 | Otherwise cell nuclei of embryos or aggregates can be stained and embryos disaggregated as discussed below . |
| 25 | Flat fields interspersed by dykes gleaming in the June sunshine spread as far as the eye could see and skylarks hovered and trilled overhead , but Nails , cautiously taking it all in , was given no time for comment . |
| 26 | Lapland buntings and skylarks swirled and settled , searching for the last seeds of salt marsh plants below the bank . |
| 27 | Accumulation could be maintained only if wages rose and scrapping accelerated . |
| 28 | Madonnas , cherubs , birds , fauns and flowers crowded and pushed each other in a design that defied logic and allowed no place for the eye to rest . |
| 29 | The colourful draperies of the various stands and tents billowed and flapped gently , as the denizens of Little Tuckett strolled about on the freshly clipped lawns of the vicarage garden , taking in the various delights on offer . |
| 30 | It was a bright day with thin sunshine burnishing up from the snow and men blinked and rubbed their eyes as they crossed the open space between the two compounds , tramping over the road running down to the village and the railway line that stretched far the other way to Pot'ma . |