Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ivy crept slowly up the walls before the house had even noticed she was there . |
| 2 | By a notice of appeal dated 6 September 1991 the solicitors appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) under section 6(2) of the Act of 1986 the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of section 3 of the Act to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell and ( b ) under section 61(1) of the Act the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of any rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell ; ( 2 ) the court had no jurisdiction under sections 6(2) and 61(1) to award claims for compensation for loss against persons knowingly concerned in such contraventions in contrast to sections 6(3) to ( 7 ) and sections 61(3) to ( 7 ) ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) the power of the court under section 6(2) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court might direct for restoring the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into and ( b ) the power of the court under section 61(1) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention of the rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to take such steps as the court might direct to remedy it included power to make a financial award against such person directing payment by that person to individual investors of sums equivalent to the amounts paid by such investors pursuant to the said transaction , neither subsection empowering the court to order restitution by the repayment of moneys outside the possession or control of the person concerned ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law ( a ) in his construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) in failing to have regard to the principle ‘ generalibus specialia derogant , ’ in particular in holding that there could exist within each of sections 6 and 61 two parallel powers to order financial redress at the suit of the plaintiff , one derived from sections 6(3) and 6(4) and sections 61(3) and 61(4) respectively , which was subject to the limitations set out in those and subsequent subsections , and the other derived from section 6(2) and section 61(1) , which was subject to no such limitations ; ( b ) in rejecting the submission that sections 6 and 61 were essentially procedural and did not create new substantive legal rights and remedies ; and ( c ) in failing to have regard to the fact that the orders sought under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim required payment to the plaintiff or alternatively into court of moneys recovered thereunder from the solicitors despite the absence of any provisions for such orders in the Act , his dismissal of the summons being inconsistent with his finding that there was no provision in sections 6(2) or 61(1) directing payment into court and that any order under the sections would have to direct repayment of the sum paid to each individual investor who had made the original payment . |
| 3 | Jean-Claude rode slowly between the rows of pollarded limes and lofty planes , the sound of the crowd drowned in the swell of the traffic . |
| 4 | A few weeks later the boy complained of a further assault ; the tailor was again convicted and once more fined £5 , but on this occasion the clerk to the Board applied successfully to the magistrates for the boy to be discharged from his indentures . |
| 5 | The whole night was in motion , its gusts glancing blows from currents active on the fringes of the turbulence centred somewhere in the clouds swirling about overhead . |
| 6 | Her husband lived uneasily with the statements . |
| 7 | And with a wave Glenda Grower remounted and rode stylishly through the gates . |
| 8 | Lindsey read swiftly through the notes . |
| 9 | But the fundamental point for me was that it involved a positive recognition of my identity and mutual recognition of our identities and that made it much easier to form more personal sorts of relationships on various social levels with other people you met naturally through the things you were doing , whether it was political or social or whatever . |
| 10 | For weeks , staying in youth hostels and living off substantial farmhouse teas , I wandered the Dales in all weathers , often struggling in the fine morning drizzle along high paths that led only into the clouds , then turning , rewarded , to watch the sunlight dipping through the hills and valleys as the rain stopped , glistening on the crags and throwing giant shadows on the slopes . |
| 11 | The collection of his personal correspondence revealed much about the affairs of the twelfth century ; the semi-Romanesque , semi-Gothic design of his new cathedral reflected his own dual goals . |
| 12 | On Tuesday they all got together in the Trades and Labour Hall and they were very excited at that stage . |
| 13 | Material draped all round the walls and swords and things hanging on them . |
| 14 | If a year is indicated this means it is a ‘ vintage ’ , made only from the grapes of that year . |
| 15 | But the main deterrent is that in much of Russia and Ukraine the bureaucrats , Servicemen and scientists who rode roughshod over the locals while living ‘ abroad ’ can not find homes or jobs . |
| 16 | He doubted whether audiences cared much about the origins of a show . |
| 17 | And although their analyses overlapped only in the margins , there was a burst of literary bitchiness when Mr Radice 's enthusiasm for the opportunties of the Common Market was excoriated by the other three . |
| 18 | JFK : flown down from Washington and flung together by the doctors ' knives and the sniper 's bullets and introduced on to the streets of Dallas and a hero 's welcome . |
| 19 | She was raped and then killed and a few days later her naked corpse found somewhere in the hills . |
| 20 | Their venture had been from start to finish " planned by the woollen interests , financed from the profits of that trade and built predominantly for the needs of the woollen industry . " |
| 21 | He did n't listen to the sales talk , he wandered slowly through the rooms , aware that Mary Rose was showing far too much enthusiasm if he was going to knock the price down . |
| 22 | They moved slowly through the crowds in the streets , glad of the obscuring numbers and the bustle and the noise , and the quivering , suppressed excitement , a thick veil behind which they walked , unnoticed and anonymous , towards the High Cross , and the long , gentle descent to the castle gate . |
| 23 | Away below , a tall figure moved slowly through the trees of the demesne . |
| 24 | The resulting scene was bizarre , as ninety skinheads moved slowly over the stones , heads down like rooting chickens , with the occasional flurry of movement as somebody found a Marlboro butt . |
| 25 | As they moved slowly between the rows of family portraits he explained who each member was . |
| 26 | Then , still without speaking , Mr Dakin moved unhurriedly between the cows and a faint chink of metal sounded as he fastened the chain around Blossom 's neck . |
| 27 | ‘ Jimi was playing in the rain and I stood right at the front of the stage and water dripped right off the tips of his boots onto my head . |
| 28 | He moved stealthily into the trees . |
| 29 | To the north , the land rose slowly from the marshes to Althorne ridge about a mile and a half inland ; to the south there seemed nothing at all , only a grey-green , indeterminate merging of water , land and sky , beginningless and endless . |
| 30 | ‘ In the Greshorns he wandered alone through the passes , climbed the peaks and was exhausted by the journey . |