Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their chances rose or fell depending upon the country to which they had been allotted . |
| 2 | A mechanical wound to the cotyledon ( lines 4–6 ) led to a systemic accumulation of pin activity and levels of this activity were identical whether the cotyledon was excised five minutes after wounding or left attached to the plant for 48 hours . |
| 3 | When she heard Matthew 's name , Miss Havisham stopped walking and stood looking at the speaker , who suddenly became silent . |
| 4 | The defendant did not appeal and failed to comply with the notices . |
| 5 | er s er but those occupations that worked shift and had to go round the clock had to have eight hour shifts , three shifts . |
| 6 | He pulled on his shoes , rose and began to jog along the road in the direction the car had taken . |
| 7 | He rose and began to dance round the room . |
| 8 | She looked at Mairi , who happened to glance over and catch her eye ; and the woman howled and started to moan at the very sight of the wee lass . |
| 9 | Evelyn O'Dowd had her own set of principles , which she changed and updated depending on the situation . |
| 10 | Not long after Charlie had his lorry pinched and got hit on the head . ’ |
| 11 | Although the minister is uniquely and personally responsible to Parliament for everything — everything , that is , outside clinical decisions — which is done or left undone in the health service , he administers it through a hierarchy of non-elective bodies on which the professions are strongly represented and are influential more than in proportion to their numbers . |
| 12 | Political-economic analysis could help professional economists both by providing a critique of their ideology , and also in assessing what is feasible , who will benefit and lose from their policies , what will tend to be done or left undone in the project and so on . |
| 13 | More than half of the children were ignored whatever they did — whether they cried , played or tried to talk to the adult . |
| 14 | Those members of the working-class who rejected or had sunk below the influence of the class above them , remained largely illiterate and inarticulate . |
| 15 | Thus the old tradition of pilgrimage , peregrinatio , spawned or became united to the new kind of military adventure we call the crusade ; and the resources of the roads and waterways of Europe and the Near East were strained to the uttermost to meet the insatiable demands of these adventurous travellers . |
| 16 | Mallards , coots and moorhens could often be seen and heard waddling about the housing estate where I lived or sometimes even boldly marching up the high street . |
| 17 | Furthermore , since " the common unaided senses of man are not equal to the realisation of the world " , education should provide the means by which the " dull superficial sight of the multitude " can be " illuminated and helped to penetrate in the direction of reality " . |
| 18 | LETTERS then is a ‘ 2nd cycle ’ isomorphic with the ‘ lst ’ ’ , a recycling of Barth 's earlier characters whose destinies are expanded and brought to bear on the America of the late 1960s ( Barth 1980a : 656 ) . |
| 19 | Their names were taken from Amal 's brother , but by the time they were collected and asked to appear before the police for statements they had taken great pains to prepare their story . |
| 20 | Gervais Sindakira was injured but managed to run to the main seminary buildings and was sheltered between two priests in the pupils ' refectory . |
| 21 | The reception area , restaurant and bar are furnished and decorated to conform to the same image , conveying an image of discreet , old-fashioned comfort and luxury . |
| 22 | Maximus tried to reconquer Rome but failed and had to call in the help of his British brothers-in-law . |
| 23 | The interrogators were quietly sacked and sent to work in the coal mines . |
| 24 | Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia was diagnosed and graded according to the criteria of the World Health Organisation . |
| 25 | The Tories had pretended society did not exist and had bowed to the markets . |
| 26 | Multi-agency case conferences should be convened and parents should be invited to attend and permitted to participate in the decision-making process . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , that cuts them out of my book , unless , of course , they 're entertaining , witty , rich , and — ’ Here he turned and began to march from the room , saying , ‘ have the sense to appreciate my worth . ’ |
| 28 | She turned and began to run down the stairs . |
| 29 | The crossbow bolt whirred out , nicking the hindquarters of the second dog , which turned and fled howling into the darkness . |
| 30 | I turned and started to head for the dunes at a slow run . |