Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With brute strength ( it took at least ten horses to shift even one medium field gun ) , the Germans eventually moved their guns forward but the delays involved meant that many of the deadly 21Os , so essential a part of the German offensive technique , were hors de combat over long periods of the battle during its most critical phase . |
| 2 | She pushed the bell-button , and two chimes politely intimated her arrival . |
| 3 | But the scorecards overwhelmingly supported my assessment that it was one-sided tedium . |
| 4 | Only he had watched , fascinated , as the pool of blood collecting around the spilt innards suddenly burst its confines and set off down the road , finding its way slowly and with difficulty , its bright fresh surface soon matted with dust and drowning insects . |
| 5 | Then she drew him up to her , and lowered her own head to take him in her mouth , her tongue darting out in tender forays at the base of his penis , stroking his belly with her hair as her teeth gently nibbled his manhood . |
| 6 | But in two matters which concern primarily what we should consider the civil rights of everyone , the Church Courts long retained their jurisdiction : the disposition of the goods of the dead , and questions of marriage and divorce . |
| 7 | She stopped abruptly as his words slowly permeated her consciousness . |
| 8 | However , at Windsor the Georgians rarely got their act together . |
| 9 | has been translated ‘ he is no good Scot , O Christ , to whom this book is not pleasing ’ , and good Scots duly enjoyed their Bower . |
| 10 | While the clergy successfully defended their claim to be taxed in convocation and not in parliament , this really made little difference to the king 's income or , indeed , to the vulnerability of the clergy before his demands . |
| 11 | Her eyes slowly forced their way open , only to be dazzled at first by a strong shaft of sunlight which had penetrated fresh dainty curtains . |
| 12 | Expedition deputy leader Rod Stables only set his marriage date two days before he flew out . |
| 13 | Having obtained a supply of Ponderosa spring water , and with a final round of handshaking and kissing of cheeks , ( the local lads were n't so keen on the latter , but the girls did n't mind a bit ) , the Frenchmen finally took their leave . |
| 14 | Again all good schools already monitored their pupils ' progress , so how could one object ? |
| 15 | We heard that some rich kids just ignored their fines ; theirs will have been the Porsche 928s we saw about the place . |
| 16 | Before the huge population rise of the eighteenth century English rural craftsmen normally combined their trade with the running of a smallholding . |
| 17 | The loss of Alsace and Lorraine had taken away not only the greater part of the French iron industry but also some of her oldest-established textile mills ; this cut into the market for France 's own dyestuffs industry which , after a good start in the 1860s , dwindled away , and French textile manufacturers soon met their dyestuff needs from Germany or Switzerland . |
| 18 | Readers already knew their Horace and writers knew that readers knew . |
| 19 | Mr Wood was one of 12 children but none of his nine sisters or two brothers ever shared his interest . |
| 20 | The frogs calmly raised their heads and smiled . |
| 21 | The fans still loved their idol , and Mitchum could now afford to relax and believe that his studio would not find itself forced to invoke the ‘ morals clause ’ and thus cancel his contract . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the grammar schools existing separately from secondary modern schools edgily defended their difference and their rights — even if one of them had only six pupils in the upper sixth . |
| 23 | When he sought to do this from the pulpit of St Paul 's on 5 November 1709 ( the anniversary of the gunpowder treason plot , when preachers usually reserved their invective for Catholics ) , and combined it with a defence of the doctrines of passive-obedience and non-resistance , the Whig ministry of the day decided to use the opportunity to try to discredit the Church in Danger platform . |
| 24 | All the time her face remained in shadow , the attitude of her head intent and concentrated ; no eyes ever sought his face . |
| 25 | Only his two brothers surreptitiously welcomed his way of life . |
| 26 | All the flying winners thoroughly enjoyed their experiences . |
| 27 | The author of these words clearly had his pen in one hand and his dick in the other , and had forgotten which was which . |
| 28 | At the same time , there is a tendency for the new technologies and work routines to short-circuit the subtle relays through which journalists traditionally learned their craft and then struggled to retain some control over the final product . |
| 29 | Those sessions nearly wrecked my hearing for life , but they made me laugh so much and took up so much of my off-duty that , as time went by , sometimes , just sometimes , I was able to laugh at my one-time passion for Bill . |
| 30 | The new government stripped the Tokugawa family of most of its land and Keiki was forced to resign its headship ; many Bakufu supporters also lost their domains . |