Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It often used to be said that Britain had a two-party political system , meaning by this not merely that the electoral system favoured the two major parties , but , less contentiously , that these two parties between them nearly monopolized the votes cast . |
| 2 | A younger woman with outsize spectacles behind them periodically gave a slight nod of her head . |
| 3 | One would expect to pass those kind of suburbs while lifting the eyes to what still lay in the centre , busy , well kept , and profitable . |
| 4 | The solution adopted in both cases was to look to the transaction the parties to which typically carried on business in different States and to ignore the transaction which in the typical case was domestic . |
| 5 | Fleeting images of Ace masterfully entering her room , of him delightfully forcing his attentions on her slowly died as she finally made herself ready for bed . |
| 6 | There are conflicting accounts of what actually transpired during these interviews . |
| 7 | Accounts of what actually occurred during the morning of Oct. 8 were contradictory . |
| 8 | On the bare and blackened springs of what once had been the driver 's seat , sat the bare and blackened remains of what once had been something or other . |
| 9 | After firing some 80 rounds from his legally owned 7.62mm SKS Chinese semi-automatic rifle , Frankum shot himself dead . |
| 10 | The ones that I did want with turtles on it never had any socks . |
| 11 | The dull coloured brickwork merged into the undergrowth of trees , weeds and plants untamed and was hardly noticed by most passes by who probably dismissed it as one of Lincolnshire 's useless ruins , which would either fall down or have to be pulled down eventually . |
| 12 | He was looking at her , surprised and wary , the olive-toned colours of his subtly pattered shirt and plain pants bleached by the moonlight so that they looked like grey and silver . |
| 13 | He was involved with Alexander Allan , the works manager at Liverpool , in rebuilding existing inside-cylinder locomotives , the crank axles of which frequently fractured , with outside-cylinder drive . |
| 14 | That 's one trophy in 37 years , none in the last 19 ; hardly sufficient to warm the cockles of what once cared to call itself the hotbed of soccer . |
| 15 | They had tried out various ‘ templates ’ — all of them embellishments on what already existed — but none of them had shown the kind of delicacy required . |
| 16 | There are two perceptions of what actually happened in the village that day . |
| 17 | Noticeboards have been scrubbed clean of posters , walls of daubed slogans and minds of memories of what really happened . |
| 18 | Constance frequently reiterated that she would never buy anything that had belonged to somebody else , that meant something to them , that had been warm against their skin or over the fireplace : only brand-new articles , the stuff of commerce in transit between factory and store , the owners of which already had more money than was good for them and were themselves no better than they should be . |
| 19 | Clare told me he 'd taken rather a lot of convincing — once he 'd determined to do the slightly naff champagne-pyramid stunt in the first place — not to try doing it with proper champagne flutes but to use the perry glasses like everybody else did ; too tall , too unstable otherwise . |
| 20 | Oil Mill was perhaps one of the under-capitalised mills for it still relied entirely on outdoor weavers . |
| 21 | Twelve year old Emma Butler died during a kickabout after a five a side football match … she 'd been watching her younger brother , Matthew , play in a tournament organised by the St Edmunds Football Club at the European School in Abingdon … details of what exactly happened are still sketchy … but it 's believed a hockey goal post which was leaning against a hut fell down crushing Emmas chest … |
| 22 | Shadows of it still remained at his trial , two years later ; although his lawyer had evidently advised him to tone down the certitude of righteousness , it would slip out . |
| 23 | The continuing resistance of the young Duke of Aquitaine delayed the progress of peace talks between the Kings of England and France but on 8 September they were able to agree to a truce until Michaelmas ( 29 September ) , the terms of which specifically excluded Richard . |
| 24 | Now , what in fact had been watered down from your original keenness in the late sixties in terms of what actually emerged in that White Paper ? |
| 25 | The shops , launderette , barber 's and butcher 's — with their mesh grilles on the windows — are full of theories on what really happened . |
| 26 | ‘ And do we have witnesses to what exactly happened ? ’ |
| 27 | The Registry , through liaison with all such representatives , records these details together with notes on which departmentally owned rooms ( e.g. laboratories ) have already been booked and which poolable ( centrally owned ) rooms would be preferred . |
| 28 | Because of the regular placement of the chairs around the fire , they were quite close together — and yet the small spaces between them quickly became boundaries . |
| 29 | It was surely significant that this year several members of he public asked if thy could join in . |
| 30 | Those assumptions could no longer be made by Mr Crosland 's Commission , although one or two members of it plainly wished that they could . |