Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The can chair was then put in and where the dark plants in the garden met the paler grass . |
| 2 | Leonora gripped a rail with white-knuckled hands when the boat bucked as it met the wilder waters of the sound . |
| 3 | Curtis met the younger man 's eye and held it . |
| 4 | When the latter were realigned or made anew they often met the earlier roads at a sharp angle on the parish boundaries . |
| 5 | Hidden deep beneath the ground is the breeder , your task is to blast your way passed the smaller attacking insects and laser beam enhanced security cameras and confront the beast in it 's nest . |
| 6 | Fewer than 30 of Britain 's 450 designated bathing beaches passed the tougher standard last summer . |
| 7 | Senna desperately needed to beat Mansell at the start but the Williams made the better getaway . |
| 8 | Lauda made the better start and led for about half the race , but Hunt 's car , suffering from severe understeer , was catching up fast . |
| 9 | Even though they were against the wind , Colleges made the better start and after Thomson had missed two penalties and John Mackenzie had had a ‘ try ’ disallowed for a foot in touch ( signalled by the Colleges touch judge Bert Barclay ) the home side went 10-0 up . |
| 10 | Obviously the more donations made the better . |
| 11 | In spite of the more sophisticated pleasures of town life the period spent at Number Five made the greater impression on us and provided the picture of Lewis that we shall always retain . |
| 12 | What , after all , could be more suitable for the Lionisers than the hotel within whose walls Dickens spent so much time , and where he had completed Nicholas Nickleby , the Albion ‘ where we had that merry night two years ago ’ , he wrote to his friend Forster , an occasion made the merrier by indulgence in the landlord 's ‘ excellent hollands ’ . |
| 13 | Sub-section ( 4 ) provided that the power to re-hear should be exercisable only within 28 days of the order/sentence/finding of guilt as the case may be and only by a court constituted in the same manner as that which made the earlier decision . |
| 14 | In most fields the nineteenth century was the age of the textbook , such as Thomas Thomson 's in chemistry and Lyell 's in geology , where successive editions made the earlier ones obsolete ; the plates that survive usefully are perhaps to be compared to the very few classic books like the Origin of Species which go on selling . |
| 15 | In the same interview with the two journalists , Wilson made the further point that he believed that a faction in DI5 had pursued a vendetta against himself and his close colleagues . |
| 16 | The ICA saw ‘ no great merit ’ in the suggestion ; but Touche Ross supported it and made the further recommendation that each firm appoint a finance partner . |
| 17 | Other buttresses to Bismarck 's system were an alliance between Austria-Hungary and Serbia , which virtually made the smaller country a Habsburg satellite during the reign of King Milan , and the accession of Rumania to the Triple Alliance , which guaranteed that country against Russian attack . |
| 18 | On an eerily quiet night at Celtic Park — wind and driving rain had done little to add lustre to a low-key occasion — it was Hibs who made the brighter start . |
| 19 | On an eerily quiet night at Celtic Park — wind and driving rain had done little to add lustre to a low-key occasion — it was Hibs who made the brighter start . |
| 20 | ‘ Once they were a proud people and ruled the greater part of Scotland but the Celts , the Angles , the Saxons and the Normans drove them from their lands into the dark vastness of the forests . |
| 21 | Everyone was closing their the theatres , but the independents and smaller circuits closed proportionally more , thus shifting the proportion of the box office take in favour of the conglomerates which owned the larger and more salubrious houses . |
| 22 | In February 1834 , an American called Benjamin Bonneville penetrated the lower Nez Perce heartland west of the Snake in the continuing battle to win over trade from the British . |
| 23 | Some backward tribes inhabited the remoter mountains and jungles but the main population was of the same race ; today they are known as Vietnamese but then the outside world knew them as Annamites or Annamese . |
| 24 | He then went on to describe the very considerable commercial and economic disadvantages experienced by peripheral industrial countries compared with the enormous advantages enjoyed by the privileged centrally placed Golden Triangle countries and called to question the entire concept of a European budget which incredibly penalised the poorer peripheral countries instead of applying the penalty the other way round . |
| 25 | And if you want to watch a master of this sort of book at work , read the later novels of the American , Margaret Millar . |
| 26 | Or , since Johnson was dead when the Journal was published , did he mean that Johnson read the later stages of the manuscript as Boswell worked his way through it ? |
| 27 | Accordingly the older the child concerned the greater the weight the court should give to its wishes , certainly in the field of medical treatment . |
| 28 | There was only one drawback and that concerned the weaker kittens that sometimes found themselves at the bottom of a pile of bodies and unable to breathe . |
| 29 | Impressed with the Buckau 's success , the German Admiralty commissioned the Weser Shipyards in Bremen to build a new , larger rotor ship on a proven full design . |
| 30 | Previous losses have fallen heavily on members of some syndicates , giving rise to claims that insiders have diverted the best business to selected syndicates and channelled the higher risks and charges to ‘ dustbin ’ syndicates , with a high proportion of investors with little or no knowledge of the business . |