Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now even this annoyed her , the way her father toned down some of the roughness of his idiom , her mother increased the Holywood Hampstead in her voice . |
| 2 | Mr Sands stressed that he would have taken the same view of any party who laid down such a set of pre-conditions . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was this legal background which encouraged Howard to enter into a formal agreement with Henrietta which laid down that ‘ to prevent altercations about those little matters which he had observed to be the chief grounds of uneasiness in families — he should always decide ’ . |
| 4 | For example , the first constitution of independent India in 1947 laid down that foreign ownership should be limited to less than half in oil , and in certain other restricted sectors . |
| 5 | Lennox-Boyd then laid down that independence would only be granted if wanted by ‘ a substantial majority of the people ’ ; if Bourne 's proposals were accepted by NLM as well as CPP then they could go ahead : ‘ If he failed then there appeared to be no alternative but to call a general election ’ ( p.245 ) . |
| 6 | It is thus apparent , as has been indicated elsewhere , that not all of the earthworks are contemporary with one another ; indeed , the basic outline of the settlement seems to have been determined by land divisions laid down several thousand years previously . |
| 7 | Susie Terhune 's crew laid down some heavy fire . |
| 8 | [ I ] t seems to me much more likely that Lord Hardwicke LC adopted [ the construction argued for by Mackenzie ] than that he laid down some new constitutional principle that the court had the power to give relief against the provision of a statute . |
| 9 | I can tell him that , if we had been involved in the process during the years in which this Government were involved , proper priority would have been given to the very stipulations that we laid down some time ago about convergence , the accountability of institutions and the need for a change in regional and structural funding — as well as several other considerations , some of which are now contained in article 2 of the treaty . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal laid down some rough guidelines in Froom v Butcher [ 1976 ] QB 286 when it decided that the defendant who succeeded in establishing that a plaintiff 's injuries could have been avoided by wearing a seat belt would have the benefit of a 25 per cent reduction in the plaintiff 's damages , even though the plaintiff was otherwise an innocent party . |
| 11 | my mate lived down that area then he , he moved up to far end Keighley end |
| 12 | But there were some very good people lived down those streets . |
| 13 | At Naxos it poured with rain and torrents swirled down those narrow streets . |
| 14 | He passed along several narrow alleyways , the tight , over-crowded vicoli that led towards Via Crispi where his pensione was situated . |
| 15 | We passed along some of the corridors and slammed some of the doors . |
| 16 | A Church already existed at Old Chiswick , for the folk who lived along that part of the River Thames , or used the ferry crossing which was just west of the eyot there . |
| 17 | He landed in the forecourt of a carpet shop , scattering the merchandise and customers , dived through its rear exit trailing apologies , skidded down another alley and stopped , teetering dangerously , just as he was about to plunge unthinkingly into the Ankh . |
| 18 | Carson scribbled down all the details that Cotterell gave him and commented , ‘ That was fast . ’ |
| 19 | He told her to fetch a pencil and paper and when she brought them scribbled down several sentences in capital letters . |
| 20 | My master peered down this as if expecting to see a vision at the bottom . |
| 21 | In a very real sense there were two Glasgows and the second city was the one that clustered along either bank of the River Clyde and all the way to Clydebank . |
| 22 | Drawing on the re-evaluation of emotion characteristic of contemporary feminist theory and practice , she argues that feminist conceptions of emotion constitute a critique of dualist conceptions of mind found in much Western philosophy in the English-speaking world and elsewhere . |
| 23 | Serves 4. 8 or 450–675g ( 1–1½ ; lb ) good quality lean sausages 225g ( 8oz ) flat mushrooms , roughly chopped 2 tbs flour 300ml ( ½ pint ) pork , veal or beef stock and red wine mixed 1 tsp soy sauce 1–2 tsp Worcestershire sauce Bake sausages , unpunctured , with mushroom pieces ranged down both sides , on a shallow , lightly oiled baking tray in an oven preheated to 210°s ; C ( 425°s ; F , Gas Mark 7 ) for 25–30 minutes ( time will depend on sausage size and meat type ) until crisply browned and firm right through . |
| 24 | Sometimes he helped along this impression of participation by opening his mouth and shovelling his chin forward until someone interrupted him . |
| 25 | Chesarynth sucked in another breath of the sweet , tangy air and melted into the crowd , shuffling inside with the rest . |
| 26 | Hendrique sucked in several deep breaths but said nothing . |
| 27 | For nearly two weeks they used very low currents , about 0.05 amps , and discovered that the cell cooled down more than expected . |
| 28 | I followed him , gratefully , and we wandered down some backstairs and out on to another floor just as Ray Gelato and his Giants of Jive were starting up . |
| 29 | Plastered over this is the 1970s language of identity politics and group empowerment . |
| 30 | In Smash Hits , Morrissey mused over this feeling . |