Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unable to drive the Syrians out of Lebanon , he merely succeeded in extended the civil war into Christian East Beirut . |
| 2 | Even so , the French might have been able to pull through had the great motivator , Jacques Fouroux , been around . |
| 3 | During the Waldheim visit to Munich , Streibl demonstratively invited the Austrian President to sign the golden book of the Bavarian State in the Prinz-Carl palace , where Mussolini liked to stay . |
| 4 | Morgan remembers him as a ‘ breath of fresh air ’ as a manager who single handedly rejuvenated the Scottish team with his incredible ability to motivate players . |
| 5 | Cimetidine also inhibited the basal proliferation of MKN45 xenografts . |
| 6 | Shell also said the foreign exchange loss would be more than offset by a tax credit of £149 million from its Japanese subsidiary . |
| 7 | The less organised often resented the superior efficiency and greater discipline ( or docility ) , and the readiness to work for lower wages , of these peasants . |
| 8 | formed in the wake of the 1972 Stockholm conference , UNEP soon spawned the Global Environment Monitoring System ( GEMS ) as well as an international register of potentially toxic chemicals and a global network of sources to locate and provide technical , scientific and management information on the environment . |
| 9 | Paige scarcely registered the momentary pain of his possession before spiralling waves of indescribable pleasure took her . |
| 10 | Fry deliberately wrote the next part of his essay in a railway refreshment room ( ‘ One must remember that public places of this kind merely reflect the average citizen 's soul , as expressed in his home ’ ) . |
| 11 | On Cordia nodosa ( Boraginaceae ) , however , invaders did not increase under these conditions , perhaps because the plant is so pubescent and therefore impassable to large ants in any case : only when lianes occupied by the smaller Crematogaster ants came near did the resident Allomerus demerarae attack . |
| 12 | In Henry , Arnulf finally found the potential monarch for whom he had been searching . |
| 13 | Boothroyd thus became the first woman Speaker . |
| 14 | Brook then asked the same volunteer to read again , but to stop after each name . |
| 15 | Papez therefore located the emotional behaviour mechanisms in the brainstem , especially in the mammillary bodies which , he believed , received sensory information via subcortical relay routes , and cognitive information from the cerebral cortex via the hippocampus and its subcortical projection system , the fornix . |
| 16 | What is doubtful is whether the survival of those phenomena and the tardiness with which they were abolished actually reinforced the political influence of mob violence . |
| 17 | Richmann never noticed the sudden widening of Benny 's eyes , or if he did he must have assumed it was fear at her imminent death . |
| 18 | SAVE therefore decided the only way forward was to establish a new independent trust to take on the task of urgent major repairs . |
| 19 | As part of the Agency 's advisory work , Purdew greatly improved the detailed planning of many building schemes , both high and low rise . |
| 20 | The sigh of the waves sounding up that chute only emphasised the genial security of the chamber . |
| 21 | In July 1949 the various armistice agreements between Israel and the Arab states formally ended the 1948 war and established Israel 's territorial position . |
| 22 | The bathroom , she noted with relief , had a very noisy extractor fan , it damn near vibrated the outer wall off . |
| 23 | But he has become increasingly frustrated the 26-year-old forward is being overlooked by his country . |
| 24 | The events of the week-end seemed to recede , to become locked away , as if I had dreamt them ; and yet as I walked there came the strangest feeling , compounded of the early hour , the absolute solitude , and what had happened , of having entered a myth ; a knowledge of what it was like physically , moment by moment , to have been young and ancient , a Ulysses on his way to meet Circe , a Theseus on his journey to Crete , an Oedipus still searching for his destiny . |
| 25 | Crowe then had the vulgar audacity to offer me a pitiful ten quid if I revealed the manager 's name . |
| 26 | Secondly , they gave a deterrent theory : the massive support which a man could call on deterred the would-be criminal ( unless his offence was unwitting ) . |
| 27 | Once I realised no-one was hurt then came the dreaded moment . |
| 28 | Ermentrude faithfully performed the crucial function of a royal wife in producing a total of eleven children , and as late as 866 , she was still ready to produce more . |
| 29 | Like thousands of students before him , Gedge merely adopted the clichéd student maxims of leftist rhetoric , irrational idealism and an Oxfam season ticket . |
| 30 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |