Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hatch bolts exploded in rapid-fire sequence , and at once Rostov forced both arms up to chest level and punched them forward , tearing the extruded foam casing . |
| 2 | GM has sold off its UK truck operations and reduced its holding in the Bedford van plant . |
| 3 | Just a few weeks ago she fell on a toy brick and sprained her foot badly ! |
| 4 | The publisher had made a decision , no doubt on sound commercial information , about the viability of the book as a course text and decided it should have a more restricted clientele who are in a position to buy a large-format , expensive paperback . |
| 5 | Rachel sat on the sanctuary steps and watched us . |
| 6 | There were four such systems : Acorn , Pin , Mosaic and Superprofiles , all of which took a number of census variables and turned them into groups . |
| 7 | Duncan was too afraid to taste them so he shut his baby dinosaur lips and shook his head again . |
| 8 | It had absorbed the autonomist Right-On thinking and described itself not as a political party as such , but as ‘ The Revolutionary Socialist Organization ’ . |
| 9 | His eldest son had a mastoid operation ; there was a big building programme that needed his personal attention . |
| 10 | Ossie Ardiles then took to the witness stand and admitted he had paid Swindon Town players a tax-free bonus after taking over as manager from Lou Macari . |
| 11 | Did you start doing a passenger service when you got the mail contract or did you to the mail just on its own first or did you |
| 12 | I gave him a pound coin and promised him another if he did his stuff and I walked over to Mrs Newton 's front door . |
| 13 | Lastly she went to hang her towel and arrange her toiletries in the bathroom , only to find several thick towels of varying sizes already hanging there for her use , and an array of soaps , lotions and hygiene products that made her own cheaply bought things seem scarcely worthy of being unpacked . |
| 14 | Peter Sidey outlined the opposition plans and urged them to write letters and attend a protest meeting . |
| 15 | Hearing the man , Dara stripped off his sackcloth cloak and threw it down . |
| 16 | For example , we gave some a picture showing some batteries and a light bulb and asked them to show how they would connect them up to make the light bulb glow . |
| 17 | EAST GERMANY 'S ruling politburo yesterday gave in to demands from independent opposition groups and said it was prepared to convene ‘ round table talks ’ about free elections and constitutional and electoral reform . |
| 18 | He took out his gold hunter watch and delivered its message almost tenderly . |
| 19 | In early November the Sudanese government forcibly closed the Christian Heilat Shouk refugee camp and moved its occupants to an area 30 km outside Khartoum . |
| 20 | He rested his hand on a cardboard box behind the tea chest and pushed himself up . |
| 21 | In 1987 I spent the summer at the college on the Intermediate Command Course and found it depressing to see just how little research was being sponsored or carried out there . |
| 22 | He did n't want to run into Ballater again ; his wish to purchase the cottage put him in the enemy camp and threatened his peace . |
| 23 | He took a cigarette from a silver case and offered me one . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's too much for you Ciss ; you know the baby will need feeding in the middle of it and he 'll get all upset and really Jo-Jo would be quite happy if you just filled the bread bin with sponge fingers and sat her in front of it . |
| 25 | Jim turned the car outside the harbour entrance and parked it where they could see the vehicles as soon as they emerged from Customs . |
| 26 | He subsequently abandoned the forgery allegation and amended his counterclaim to plead ( i ) non est factum on the grounds that Mrs. Steed did not know that she had been appointed attorney and was not aware that she was signing a transfer of the property ; and ( ii ) that the transaction effected by the transfer was not a sale and was not within the power conferred by the power of attorney . |
| 27 | The International Herald Tribune of April 28 reported that the US government had for more than two years had evidence that Iraq had diverted food purchased under a US$5,500 million aid programme and exchanged it for Soviet-made arms in Jordan , Turkey and the Soviet Union , including nuclear technology according to a confidential US document dated Oct. 13 , 1989 . |
| 28 | Megan unpacked the picnic tea and handed me a plastic cup . |
| 29 | It was around this time that he went to collect his Mercedes from a car showroom and found himself being gathered in for the Lord . |
| 30 | Marseille took the lead in the 31st minute through top scorer Boksic and increased it through Voeller in the 57th minute following an error by substitute Steven Pressley . |