Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also had strong opinions and found it hard to " brook any delay or frustration . |
| 2 | He saw it as an economic drain and realised its damaging effect on Moscow 's international relations . |
| 3 | He smoked a cigarette and looked at her stubbly hair and bought her another brandy . |
| 4 | Mike Power and Clive Thornton pointed him in the right direction and sent him in like a terrier down a rabbit hole . |
| 5 | The dawn of the philosophical Enlightenment had almost no effect upon the average European who still tilled his feudal strip and grazed his animals on the common land . |
| 6 | At the fall of France , Donald Caskie had refused a place on the last boat home and instead had gone south where , working from the Seamen 's Mission in Marseilles , he had hidden hundreds of allied servicemen and helped them to escape over the Pyrenees into Spain . |
| 7 | Then he bundled her now rosy body into her dry shirt and sat her down on the sleeping-bag to vigorously rub her hair dry . |
| 8 | It was as if two palms had been placed against the frail skin and forced it upwards so that he saw with a shock of premonitory recognition the shine of the skull beneath the skin . |
| 9 | Despite the total chaos that followed their introduction there was a conspicuous lack of corpses . |
| 10 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 11 | When the three of them got up to leave , Melissa glanced across at Dora and met a look of concentrated malevolence that took her by surprise . |
| 12 | And while such mundane things as fluctating interest rates and ever-increasing gas , electricity , water bills remain on the scene , it 's a strong possibility that ‘ wider and deeper ownership ’ will be hampered by thevery economic policies that spawned it . |
| 13 | The Johnson group seized the wounded Doe and took him away , while the ECOWAS force looked on , apparently helpless . |
| 14 | While there he begged a look around a semi-derelict Dakota and realised he was hooked on propliners ! |
| 15 | The proximity of Tribschen to Basle obviously made contact easier , but it was undoubtedly Nietzsche 's new professional eminence that made it particularly welcome to Wagner and led to a rapid development of the relationship between the two . |
| 16 | He therefore consulted the defendant sellers of agricultural products and asked them to recommend a herbicide that could be used later than usual . |
| 17 | His enthusiastic and entrepreneurial promotion of these studies , however , was combined with a political naïvety that blinded him to the problems that can arise from reliance on external sources of funding in politically charged fields of study . |
| 18 | my Lord , er , er , in , in my submission the , the , the highest really could put their case is that if the matter were referred your Lordship simply did n't stay proceedings or permitted them for example to apply for interim payment or permitted them to take some procedural steps to pursue their action so that they were n't unduly delayed should they succeed at the end of the day and that would be a major concession because it would run against a normal rule cos on a reference the entire proceedings are stayed , that 's not a case just saying even if that is done , er that anybody is saying that particular measure is or is good is not good or may not be forced in the interim |
| 19 | For all those years Adolph Brückner had guarded his bloody loot and built his reputation as an art lover around it . |
| 20 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 21 | He gave them a strange look and pursed his lips . |
| 22 | Athelstan rose quickly , said a hasty prayer and washed himself in the freezing water from a cracked pewter jug . |
| 23 | ‘ But the boss used to give me some right stick and told me I was no good to him lying in bed or on the treatment table . |
| 24 | ‘ But the boss used to give me some right stick and told me I was no good to him lying in bed or on the treatment table . |
| 25 | Coun Richmond then called on the Tory group to support the Labour measure but claimed it would never have been proposed without the prompt of his motion . |
| 26 | They had removed their tall hats and placed them on their knees . |
| 27 | He took her wrist between impersonal fingers and consulted his watch . |
| 28 | However , make sure you have recovered all of the stolen objects and returned them to their curators . |
| 29 | They took comfort from Dr Kohl 's apparent embrace of the need for more detailed discussion of the Delors proposals and more powers for the European Parliament and restated their belief that a conference on economic and monetary union should not be held hastily . |
| 30 | They took comfort from Dr Kohl 's apparent embrace of the need for more detailed discussion of the Delors proposals and more powers for the European Parliament and restated their belief that a conference on economic and monetary union should not be held hastily . |