Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the heady 1980s , Tarmac got carried away chasing the easy money in housebuilding and property development . |
| 2 | By now the head has come up to witness the miserable result . |
| 3 | Drawing the assembled crowds ’ attention to the Norseman 's pedigree , Bob pointed out that it is thought to have been the first aircraft to land on the Normandy beaches during D-Day , the American fighter ace Screwball Beurling was killed in Italy whilst ferrying a Norseman to the Israelis and of course there is the legend that has built up surrounding the mysterious disappearance of bandleader Major Glenn Miller in December 1944 , after taking-off in a Norseman from Twinwoods airfield , near Bedford , England , bound for Paris , never to be seen again . |
| 4 | Evans has decided not to consider the nine players who are involved in the East Wales v West Wales match on Monday and has named seven of his Under-21 players . |
| 5 | BRITAIN 'S Ministry of Defence has decided not to protect the voluntary civilian crews of the Royal Navy 's new minesweepers against radioactive fallout , in order to save money . |
| 6 | Aside from his kicking , Ellwood , the player who has done most to transform the Irish season , has shown that he can also break . |
| 7 | A company 's management policies might be just as much to blame for a particular ‘ accident ’ as the actions of the driver , pilot , or captain : Sheen J made this point in his report on the Zeebrugge ferry disaster , but English prosecution practice has tended not to invoke the criminal law against managers of transport systems . |
| 8 | As modern portfolio theory has become widely accepted the necessary inputs are generated in the UK by the London Business School ( LBS ) on a commercial basis . |
| 9 | But he has become increasingly frustrated the 26-year-old forward is being overlooked by his country . |
| 10 | Finally , prior to accessing the relational database you must set your DEC Rdb/VMS or ORACLE default database , as appropriate , to whichever database your LIFESPAN Manager has set up to retain the transferred LIFESPAN information . |
| 11 | Examples of community projects that NERC has set up include the Terrestrial Initiative in Global Environmental Research ( Tiger ) , which includes carbon cycling and trace greenhouse gases , as well as water and ecosystems ; the Biomolecules Special Topic , which covers fossil biomolecules ; and a Pollutant Pathways project run jointly with the Agricultural and Food Research Council , which is studying leakage from agricultural systems into aquifers and groundwater . |
| 12 | PRESIDENT Ben Ali of Tunisia has ruled out legalising the main opposition force in the country , the Islamic Fundamentalists . |
| 13 | It has gone on reducing the fantastic levels of public sector borrowing requirement that were reached under the last Government . |
| 14 | The shy 19-year-old who married the heir to the throne has gone on to shake the British monarchy to its roots . |
| 15 | And the cost , or the potential cost of designating particular , like hospitals and similar premises is so prohibitive that the government has chosen never to implement the designating orders for them . |
| 16 | Then he remembered he 'd given up smoking the damned thing . |
| 17 | What if you 'd gone on believing the worst of me and into the bargain you 'd ended up having to marry Janice ? |
| 18 | ‘ Placing a half-silvered mirror in front of a camera allowed the camera to see two images simultaneously , providing you 'd balanced out lighting the two images very carefully . |
| 19 | The Recreation Ground was saturated but having given up hope the hot sun came out , covers were unravelled and a suspiciously soft pitch was revealed . |
| 20 | But when we tol When we told us they said Oh they 'd have come down to match the nearest competitor , and we thought oh why did he quote up there in the first place then . |
| 21 | His parents might have done well to remember the ancient adage , ‘ Those whom the gods love die young ’ . |
| 22 | It is worth mentioning , however , that one of the emerging conclusions of the Welsh Affairs Committee inquiry ( though it is still early days ) is that CPRW could and should have done more to alert the Welsh Office to departures from planning policy and should have created more of a public stink over such abuses . |
| 23 | He captured Isaac 's wife and daughter , and having promised not to put the former ruler in irons , had silver chains made for him . |
| 24 | Speaking on Feb. 27 , Schwarzkopf confirmed that allied forces could have gone on to take the Iraqi capital had they been so ordered . |
| 25 | Neither Luther nor Sandys would have achieved much had the political conditions of the day not been extraordinarily favourable . |
| 26 | Thus the corals and the stromatoporoids virtually ceased abruptly , though presumably some must have survived somewhere to produce the later faunas of Carboniferous times . |
| 27 | One of the things I did learn from the last tour was to rehearse enough material so that you do n't get fed up playing the same things over and over again . ’ |
| 28 | She 'd have given both arms to have avoided even meeting the blasted man . |
| 29 | The two got togged up to publicise the first programme in their new series of Watchdog tomorrow night ( BBC1 , 7.30pm ) which investigates the cost of school uniforms . |
| 30 | The once gleaming whitewash was dark and smoke-blackened ; in places the plaster had fallen away to reveal the messy rubble-walling beneath . |