Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chilli also meant that Praeger had been just a wire man with orders not to kill anybody who came at him just blind them and run . |
| 2 | The defence also claimed that Poindexter had never intended to mislead Congress and that any inaccuracies in his testimony were accidental . |
| 3 | The majority now believed that Bunker 's more realistic approach made more sense . |
| 4 | The Prince also said that he wanted to show the world that he was not " an accomplice of the Khmers Rouges " . |
| 5 | The split apparently came after the fiery-tempered pair had a row about Tatum wanting to go back to acting — leaving McEnroe to look after the children while she makes movies . |
| 6 | A notice in The Scotsman yesterday said that the ceremony , to be held in Balerno Kirk on Wednesday , is to be a celebration of his life . |
| 7 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 8 | The board also announced that , in the absence of unforeseen circumstances , it would recommend a final dividend of not less than 4p , making a total of 7p , representing an increase of not less than 16.7 per cent . |
| 9 | The Board also said that there was a substantially greater potential , but at a higher cost . |
| 10 | The board also said that in future it would receive more information on ‘ public interest issues ’ affecting the BBC . |
| 11 | The Donation also claimed that the Emperor Constantine on ceremonial occasions had performed the office of strator ( leading the horse ) and strepa ( holding the stirrup ) for the pope , signifying an almost feudal servility . |
| 12 | ( The vet eventually amputated and Tulley became a different dog — getting about so much quicker . ) ; |
| 13 | The Chairman also suggested that the membership could publish papers . |
| 14 | Four pages later , when writing about Aylesbury Bridewell , he said , ‘ the prisoners here wished that the magistrates had made rules also for them ’ ( Howard 1792 : 149 ) . |
| 15 | The buyer subsequently discovered that the wreck had never existed and that , indeed , neither had the reef ! |
| 16 | The buyer subsequently discovered that the rear half of the car was a 1961 Herald but the front half was part of an earlier model , the two halves having been welded together . |
| 17 | The Burgundians thought that eating too many potatoes caused leprosy , the Prussians believed that they were responsible for the dreaded consumption , whilst the Russians simply said that they were food sent from the devil . |
| 18 | Indeed , many of the groups actually felt that their own efforts were " neater " , more " polished " and had more all-round " literary merit " . |
| 19 | The cheque never arrived and I heard nothing more ! |
| 20 | The ministry yesterday confirmed that it intended to slaughter the birds . |
| 21 | The life of the University both did and did not go on . |
| 22 | The researchers therefore concluded that cigarette smoking was an independent risk factor for the development of premature wrinkling . |
| 23 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 24 | The story actually started when Kylie admitted that she had lost weight after joining Neighbours because of the gruelling schedules that the series demanded . |
| 25 | The story then went that if the skull was ever taken died . |
| 26 | The authorities now maintained that the bombing was an act of revenge for the April 1986 raid on Tripoli by US aircraft [ see pp. 34454-59 ] and that available evidence indicated sole Libyan responsibility . |
| 27 | Yemen was already housing some 50,000 Somali and Ethiopian refugees and the authorities there said that their resources , especially health care provision , were overstretched . |
| 28 | The driver never disputed that the engine was a foreigner , but pins his defence , he pointed out that the week previous , he had taken over and ex-LNER B.1 4–6–0 working from Sheffield to Llandudno , and despite that being a foreigner , had been acceptable . |
| 29 | The FMLN also claimed that aid from international organizations was being prevented from reaching them and that captured FMLN members were now being held as political prisoners . |
| 30 | The association also calculated that , over and above income support , the same claimant would have received £360 in housing benefit , on a typical rent of £30 a week . |